Bollywood decided not to release its films in Pakistan in light of the Pulwama attack.<\/p>\n
After Ajay Devgan’s Total Dhamaal<\/em> and Kriti Sanon and Kartik Aryan starrer\u00a0Luka Chuppi<\/em>, the rest of Bollywood jumped the bandwagon to boycott Pakistan.<\/p>\n If Bollywood suspends its release in one of its biggest markets, how will that affect Pakistan? It won’t.\u00a0However, it will cost Bollywood a lot though.<\/p>\n History has proven time and time again that movies that do well in Pakistan make it big like Bajrangi Bhaijaan<\/em>. Those that don’t, tank at the box office like Pari\u00a0<\/em>and Ay Dil Hai Mushkil<\/em>.<\/p>\n Indian media reported that movies still in the pipeline like\u00a0Badla<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Kesari<\/em>\u00a0will also not release in Pakistan.<\/p>\n Indian media reports that Pakistan only amounts to five percent of earnings. Yet almost all movies that don’t do well in Pakistan bite the dust at the box office.<\/p>\n Initially,\u00a0Luka Chhupi<\/em>\u00a0had been estimated to rein in as many profits as\u00a0Simmba.\u00a0<\/em>Now that it won’t release in Pakistan, things are looking dim for the rom-com.<\/p>\n While the common Indian man may not understand the magnitude of potential losses, Bollywood film-makers do. That is why they are already scrambling to make up for losses from not releasing in Pakistan. They now have to sell those rights to other territories.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to agree that we need to place the country before everything else. So if there is a shortfall in the monies to be recovered from the sale of the films \u2014 filmmakers are now re-negotiating with the channels and digital platforms asking for a higher price from the satellite and digital sales of the film because they will not be able to recoup a certain sum of money for films that have already been made and sold for all territories including Pakistan. So, if the Pakistan deal is off, how does the recovery happen?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Film-makers are also trying to renegotiate deals. They intend to ask for higher prices from distributors they already have agreements with.<\/p>\n We can just imagine Neha Kakkar singing in the background that \u00a0‘is mein tera\u00a0ghala meri kuch ni jata<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bollywood decided not to release its films in Pakistan in light of the Pulwama attack. 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It won’t.\u00a0However, it will cost Bollywood […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":217668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,2199,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bollywood","8":"category-featured","9":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"Talk about a plot twist!","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luka-Chuppi-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luka-Chuppi-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Luka-Chuppi.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Bollywood","Featured","TV & Film"],"title_text":"India is Hurting Itself with the Bollywood Film Ban in Pakistan and Here\u2019s Why","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1294,2199,1297&exclude=217665","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217665"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=217665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}It will Cost Bollywood a Pretty Penny<\/h3>\n