How does the Indian film industry make money? DVD sales? Theater tickets? Something else? I've heard that the Indian film industry is pretty deeply infiltrated by organized crime but I don't know if that's really true.
Used to be infiltrated by crime - around 1990s iirc. The Mumbai police brutally cleaned up a lot of the mob out here, and things have become a lot cleaner since.
The key driver for film would would have to be box office ticket sales, (i'm going to ignore food, product placements and the like). DVD/Video sales will be a much lower portion of it. Let me see if i can get any numbers... ah found it. -
Numbers are for 2010 and in INR bn (1 USD = 45.0 INR)
