AK stunning dissection of B-wood woes

Bollywood of late is facing testing times with the films failing at the box office.

In the midst of all this, speaking at WAVES 2025, Aamir Khan shared his thought on Bollywood's current situation. He said “I have always believed that we have very few theatres for the size of our country and the number of people living in India. In India, we have around 10,000 screens, and in the US, which is one-third of our population, they have 40,000 screens and China has 90,000 screens. And even in this 10,000, half are in the South (South India) and the other half in the rest of the country,"

He went on to add  “For a Hindi film, typically we have 5,000 screens. Our biggest hits over the years have had a theatrical footfall of 3 crore people, which is roughly 2 per cent of our population. In a country recognised as a film-loving nation, only 2 per cent watches our biggest hits in a theatre. So where is the remaining 98 per cent watching the film?”

Dissecting the problem, he shared “My belief has always been that we need to have a lot more theatres in India. There are so many vast districts in India that don’t have a single theatre for people to watch films. So I feel that one of the biggest issues that we have faced over decades is that we just don’t have enough screens.”