PK Ticket Price Analysis: Compared to Happy New Year and normal movies

Our inbox has been bombarded with mails after the “PK Ticket Price” article that we published last evening. Aamir Khan’s spokesperson had said in a statement that the makers have decided not to increase ticket prices. But when we started receiving emails and tweets from our readers, we decided to do a quick research on ticket booking portal bookmyshow and a few exhibitors across the country.

The results were shocking.

The ticket prices of PK have not just been increased by 10-15%, but some multiplexes are selling tickets for 30-40-50% more than other releases. Premium tickets, at some centres, are also higher than other festival releases like Kick and Happy New Year.

In fact, a reliable source has informed us that Gaiety Galaxy has decided not to screen PK due to disagreement over ticket pricing.

Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma - PK

Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma – PK

Below is a quick comparison between the ticket prices of PK compared to normal movies and bigger releases like Happy New Year (HNY) and Kick.

  • 24 Karat Jogeshwari (Mumbai) – Normal movies Rs 250, HNY / Kick Rs 300, PK Rs 300 (same as big festive releases)
  • Big Cinemas Metra (Mumbai) – Normal movies Rs 350, HNY / Kick Rs 400, PK Rs 420 (higher than HNY / KICK)
  • Fun Cinemas Shahdara (Delhi) – Business class tickets – Normal movies Rs 400, HNY / Kick Rs 500, PK Rs 600!
  • Big Cinemas Ansal (Noida) – Normal movies Rs 150, HNY / Kick Rs 180-200, PK Rs 220.
  • Cinepolis (Mangalore) – Normal movies Rs 150, PK Rs 200.

And finally, at PVR Forum Mall Koramangala (Bangalore), PK ticket prices have doubled. Night show of Action Jackson or Lingaa (Tamil) on a weekday costs Rs 190. For the same show tomorrow, a ticket of PK has been priced at Rs 380!

In short, the ticket prices of PK are either at the same level of Happy New Year / KICK or higher.

Have ticket prices increased at a multiplex or single-screen that you visit? Do tell us in the comments section below.

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89 Comments

  • Can’t decide, who’s behind this? Aamir? Vidhu Vinod? Hirani

    Aamir competing his peers, Chopra doesn’t have a single hit after 3 idiots (Ferrari was average)
    or Hirani who wants to score high because he has invested 5 years into PK. Anyway, people are still going to see it, just like they saw Dhoom 3, HNY and Kick.

  • @indicine: Yes, that’s correct.
    Prices I quoted, are for GOLD class at PVR.

    @Others: There is no need of burning or throwing your frustration on indicine. The question is not about price rise, as producers are not doing any charity here, if they have made a movie it’s their right as much as they can from that movie. But the problem here is, misleading the audiences/readers and “I’m the only saint rest all are dacoits” mentality. If you have raised the ticket price just accept it. What’s wrong in that. And if at all you want to set a benchmark then take an example of Salman’s Jai Ho. The tickets price were normal like any other day . So he and sohail said that they are not going to increase the price and they sticked to that.

  • @indlicine kindly delete the last line of ur article where u hv compared weekday ticket price of a 2 week old film AJ with that of a weekend ticket price of pk!!!

    a prestigious and popular website like urs isn’t expected to go so wrong with facts

  • even d SHAMELESS word is nothing to explain dis act done by aamir…
    he is sooooo desparate to brk d opening records of srk.. atleast srk had sm guts to openly announce by himself dt d ticket prices r hiked nd if u liked d film den only u cm to watch as he didnt wanted to do fraud wid his audiences nd d rslt we all know hny became srk’s 2nd b-2-b 200 cr+ grosser

    bt aamir said false things b-2-b nd we hv to wait for 3rd tym whn aamir will issue fake bo collections nd m damn sure abt dis…

    nd yaa he really said enough fake things in d past whether it wz abt chetan bhagat’s claim of 5 mistakes or taking fuuullll credit of tzp direction… so pathetic actor nd ppl believe on him blindly… blindly believing is like believing on d fake saints.lol

  • Lol indicine &aamir haters crying for what any actor would have done that after all its business not charity film if u have money go nd watch it otherwise stay back home

  • Mr. Retake-tionist will not play with figures he started looting people DHOOM#…it will underperfom big time…and he often say he is not intrested in figures blah blah he is lier…he desprate to overtake SRk …but Mr. Retake-tionist you cannot……even yash chopra directed you in parampra and lost it completly…. your career nothing infront of SRK…

  • Pk team trying to fool us
    indicine team if u can y dnt u inform them with ur facts and xpose these 3 idiots(raju,amir n vvc)
    i wil watch hobbit 3 2marow not pk

  • @ Indicine: why are you crying now…for the fact that PK will easily cross HNY collections…

    When you know that this price increase is quite normal when a biggie releases than why u want to create a negative atmosphere for PK…Do you have any proof of any news about PK producers asking cinema theaters owners to increase the price? Since the industry has been in loss over last two months for the fact that many movies were disaster, the producers may want to cover for the loss by increasing rates PK. They have big hopes and confidence that PK is all set to do well. So they increased the tickets price. What can movie producers do for that.

    Did you not observe this during HNY? And more over you give an bad example of PVR Forum Mall (Bangalore). All multiplexes in Bangalore increase the price for all big releases. I watched Kick in garuda mall (MG Road) paying Rs 360. So what big deal in paying 380 for PK in PVR. For your information PVR (Yeswanthpur) rates are 600+ for any movie….

    Any day PK deserves highest collections than HNY & D3. A good movie should always win over the craps.

  • I m not interested in watching pk in theater
    I know after watching pk more people will say

    Ata maji satatheaterkli return my money

    Same word I said for crap movie a.j
    And adiunce said too data maji satakli prabhu return my mone

    I watch pk on internet only if i like (i m sure it is not a master as 3i)then i definetly see the film
    In theatre. But there are ticket price is sky high a whopping
    Rs.500
    And I saw kick with 350 and happy new year in 300
    Rs.

    The maker of pk are telling a lie about tickets rates.
    Ticket price every where higher than kick and hny

    Mahira a Khan coming in Bollywood please welcome
    As we welcome deepi and anu.
    Mahira Khan a Pak actress who is the leading lady in srk
    Most awaited film RAEES. Mahira is so telented if you want to check then
    See his film BOL.
    A role of in Bol who played by SHAFQAT CHEEMA
    Offered to naseerudin shah but he refuse
    Because these days he was very busy
    In shoting
    After the release of bowl naseer said
    ”Mujhe zindagi Bhar afsoos rahe ga k mujhe
    Bol film me eK kirdar dia gaya tha or me ne osay
    Inkar kr dia.

  • Generally asking, can the makers directly influence the price of the tickets? Is it possible in a sense that multiplexes choose to balloon the prices, seeing it’s an anticipated movie?

  • Read the last line of Aamir’s article:
    “Ticket prices of PK will be lower than HNY and Kick.”
    Who said that?
    Aamir and Raju DID NOT say that. It was written by the writer of the article. So stop blaming Aamir.

  • even he is hiding his star cast he make sure they did not get attention more than himself…
    actaully in my point views this movie also a multi starer like any other movie or HNY but nobody get attention more than this Alien…

    Amir khan
    sanjay dutt (big name missing form lime light)
    Anushka sharma
    sushant singh
    boman irani
    Saurabh shukla
    ram sethi

    wherea as same number of cast in HNY.

    SRk
    Abhishek
    Deepika
    Boman
    Sunoo Sood
    Vivaan Shah

  • i don,t know why peoples are overreacting on this these desicion are taken by exhibitors/distributors/producer not by actors i think due to november month crisis cinema owners are increasing the ticket rates to cover up some loss any way these thing won,t effect pk and it will break all records confirm i am just dying to watch pk.Salmir rocks.

  • This man always use sachin tendulkar to promote his movie. There wax no buzz around movie until sachin praises it. In other day he don’t bother about box office number but he shifted his released dated from June Xmas just to cash 3 idiots glory. Boi is supporting big time since past couple of years and I wont surprise they will quote producers numbers.
    Navin uncle have gone mad and trying to support his lier.

  • its nt due to d november flop releases its d actor nd producers who force des distributors nd exhibitors to hike d ticket rates.. problm is dat aamir said dt d rates r nt hiked bt now we r getting d news dat d rates r hiked so wht aamir trying to show is dat he is over-desparate to brk d records… atleast srk n salman wr saying true dat ticket prices wer hiked/nt hiked for hny/jai ho

  • forget about srk, sallu or hritik.thumbs up if you thing akki has bigger fan base than aamir thumbs down if you think aamir has bigger fan base than akki.one day in jaipur aamir and akki both arived differently, icant believe the people who come out to see akki were triple that of aamir.

  • Another lie by Mr Perfectionist….Yes I agree with you Amir khan that you cant fool people in present time ,they have access to every thing….Poor perfectionist

  • @indicine

    Yesterday you had quoted your reliable sources as saying that Aamir didn’t want to hike the price of the tickets of pk….. But nowhere they quoted him as saying so.

    The whole point of this article seems to be to somehow prove Aamir as a liar.
    Now you are posting all negative articles about the film….. Casts huge doubts on your integrity

  • All you losers crying out there.. It’s neither Aamir, VVC or Raju Hirani who fixes the ticket price..

    @Indicine if you guys can convey it to Team PK, please do it so that they can request the distributors not to hike the prices..

    This looks more like a publicity stunt to create negativity around PK..!!!

  • yes , i am from bhubaneswar odisha and here in the single screens the ticket prices are at par with happy new year and kick , and in multiplexes like inox increased more than the hny and kick

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