Ajay Bijli Exclusive Podcast w⧸ Vanita Kohli Khandekar ｜ PVR INOX ｜ Beyond The Box Office

In this exclusive podcast with Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, Ajay Bijli (Managing Director - PVR INOX) talk about all things multiplexes. They delve deep into how PVR INOX manages to stay afloat during the months where cinema content lessens, and how their average ticket pricing affects scale. Mr. Bijli talks about the extremely successful year that 2023 was, and what he expects from the rest of 2024. He discusses the impact The General Elections, and the ICC Cricket World Cup have had on the film business of the country, and his thoughts on the screen count of the subcontinent. #AjayBilji #PVRINOX 00:00 - Beyond The Box Office with Ajay Bijli (M.D. - PVR INOX) 02:00 - PVR’s journey and where they are right now 07:02 - How badly under-screened is India as a market? 14:25 - The explanation of multiplexes, and how is the South Market different? 16:41 - Domestic crossovers and films working beyond their core market 19:24 - Do small film successes impact business well? 23:45 - The 8 week streaming window 32:45 - F&B pricing for PVR INOX 34:06 - Getting impacted by the big OTT players 41:08 - Theatrical to streaming and the interdependency 41:38 - Supporting Indie films Have you subscribed to Film Companion yet? Join us here - http://bit.ly/FCsubscribe Follow Us On: / filmcompanion / filmcompanion / filmcompanion About The Channel: The Film Companion is a web channel intended to promote Indian cinema through films review, interviews, discussions, video essays, and analytical compilations. It is intended primarily for the purpose of encouraging informed discussions, criticism, and review of cinema and towards such purpose, the programs use short extracts of cinematograph films, sound recording, and photographic works. These clips and extracts are of a minimal nature and the use is not intended to interfere in any manner with their commercial exploitation of the complete work by the owners of the copyright. The use of works is in compliance with the fair dealing exception provided under Sec. 52 of the Copyright Act, and we assert our use of the works under the exception provided for criticism and review.