Hindi box office sheds the coronavirus blues, closes gap with 2019

Movies contributed Rs 1,716 crore to domestic earning in the first half of the 2022 calendar year

The show goes on in the Hindi film industry: it is steadily coming out of the deep freeze after slumping during the pandemic.

Hindi-language films, including Bollywood and dubs of South Indian and Hollywood movies, contributed Rs 1,716 crore to the domestic box office in the first half of the 2022 calendar year, shows data compiled after speaking to trade analysts and distributors.

The amount is just 20 per cent lower than the Rs 2,138 crore collected in the first half of 2019 and before the pandemic struck India. The first halves of 2020 and 2021 are not comparable, as theatres closed