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- High ticket prices and piracy hinder attendance, causing box office revenue to decline.
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- Subscribe now The decline of single-screen cinemas and the concentration of multiplexes in the top metros are narrowing options for India’s movie-goers and hurting box-office collections of films, according to experts.
- Single-screen cinemas, which dominated the country’s theatrical landscape a decade ago, have shrunk to about 6,500 properties in 2025 from 9,500, hit by rising real estate prices and the availability of content on streaming platforms, according to experts.
