REAL BOXOFFICE COLLECTIONS

How does a fan or interested person (research,reporter etc.) get the truthful amount about any recently released film in India? Where you get amounts and figures from producers, directors, PR, actors and their family (only in India-family members of actors become experts and famous for being family), you also get figures from the film related pages/blogs/critics, and also from groups and trolls on social media that pop up like mushrooms to quote incredible figures, and claim they are experts but they created the account yesterday.

Granted that some critics and sites have a long track record and have been doing the job for a long time so they have a fairly earned respectability or trust from those who read/follow, and yes everyone knows they have to live off something so most are paid, but the better or more respected show their bias with some amount of prudence so there is always a margin of plus or minus from their quotes.

The issue is that all of the above mentioned sources quote disparagingly different figures, some are ridiculously fixed, some are exaggerated to the braking point. Sites like Wikipedia are manipulated and changed (recently for one movie it was changed daily). Most international tracking sites that keep a close eye on Box Office numbers around the world do not track India or if they do they place a disclaimer, informing the reader that because of fraud-enhancement-paid and bought for critics and news media, none of the figures are reliable. A lot of hoopla is made, a lot of false information created and in the end no one is sure of what is fact.

I am not even sure that in India the approximation of figures is known at the end of the fiscal year due to the fact that the IRS is just as afflicted if not more with the syndrome

of dhokhadhadi. In the USA for example the figures are usually very reliable at the end of the fiscal year because uncle Sam gets pretty angry when you lie to him.