On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:19 +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: >> --Jace, who went to Inox with friends last night and saw the fine Rs >> 250 print on the ticket post-movie. Rs 40 used to be grumble-worthy >> barely half a decade ago. > > this is called differential pricing. i'm sure there are cheaper places > to watch a movie in india... :-) but when you can charge some people in > india near-US prices (or much more) for beer, you can charge near-US > prices for a movie ticket.
Not really -- there are heavy taxes on theatres -- but multiplexes are exempt for the next 5 years. However, market dynamics allows multiplexes to charge an order of magnitude more than single screen theatres. Net result: it's very difficult to make a single screen theatre profitable -- they're dying like flies. I know in Bangalore, at least, there few if any alternatives to expensive multiplexes. -- b
