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The Blast Behind Rajinikanth Was Real. The Man Who Designed It Works Out Of Bengaluru.

BY Bengaluru Baath Desk

Industry Analysis, Box Office, Industry Data

We Checked Every Box Office Number Published This Month. One Tracker Is Doing Almost All Of It.

BY Bengaluru Baath Desk

Box Office, Cinema, Karnataka

Karnataka Is The Top State For Ramayana Pre-Sales. Two Weeks Ago It Ignored A Kannada Dub.

BY Bengaluru Baath Desk

Box Office, Cinema, Hindi Cinema

Drishyam Ended As Devgn’s Biggest Film And His Biggest In America. Our Day One Number Was Wrong.

BY Bengaluru Baath Desk

Box Office, Cinema, Film Business

Three Films Opened The Day After Jailer 2. A Three-Week-Old Drishyam Beat Two Of Them In Bombay.

BY Bengaluru Baath Desk

Three Films Opened The Day After Jailer 2. A Three-Week-Old Drishyam Beat Two Of Them In Bombay.

Bengaluru Baath graphic on broadcasters challenging the Karnataka cinema ticket cess

JioStar And Zee Are Now Fighting The Cinema Ticket Cess. Ask Yourself Why.

Jailer 2 Is The Biggest Tamil Film Ever Made. Karnataka Paid More For It Than Kerala Did.

Indian Cinema

200 Titles A Month, 50 Percent Completion, And Not One Rupee Figure

MrBeast Chanted Jai Shri Ram In Mumbai. That Is A Marketing Strategy, Not An Accident.

Illustrated title card of a gold mine and film reels, for the KGF story

How A Film About A Gold Mine Turned Kannada Cinema Into A National Business

AI-generated illustration of Satyajit Ray reading a script at his desk, not a photograph

Satyajit Ray Made A Film With Borrowed Money And Changed World Cinema

AI-generated illustration of Raghava Lawrence as Karna with a bow, not a photograph

Raghava Lawrence Is Playing Karna In A ₹150 Crore Epic, Which Is Not The Career Turn Anyone Predicted

The Baath Top 3 This Week

TRAI Wants A Government Master List That TV Makers Must Obey. The Fee Schedule Is The Real Censorship.

200 Titles A Month, 50 Percent Completion, And Not One Rupee Figure

India’s Media Industry Just Gave 90-Second Vertical Drama Its Own Session At FRAMES

OTT

Collage of South Indian film stills and posters

Modha Rathri On Netflix Is This Week’s Sleeper Tamil Comedy

AI-generated illustration of Suriya in front of a wall of Netflix titles, not a photograph

Six Indian Films Are On Netflix’s Global Chart At Once, And Suriya Is Leading Them

Music

Illustration of a city skyline at night with the words 14 Cities. One Voice.

Shreya Ghoshal’s Unstoppable Tour Is Coming Home To 14 Cities, And Bengaluru Goes First

Culture

Manoj Bajpayee Is Playing Gandhi. Waheeda Rehman Is Back After Eight Years.

Illustrated title card of an early silent-era filmmaker at a desk beside a film camera

Indian Cinema Started With A Man Who Mortgaged His Life Insurance

AI-generated illustration of Vir Das on stage outside Radio City Music Hall, not a photograph

Vir Das Is Headlining Radio City Music Hall, Which No Indian Comedian Has Done

Music

Illustrated title card of an Oscar statuette and a cheering crowd, for the Naatu Naatu story

The Night A Telugu Song Won An Oscar And Everyone Pretended They Saw It Coming

Original Bengaluru Baath editorial illustration: India Is Minting Superstars Faster Than Almost Anyone, And The US And UK Are Losing Their Grip

India Is Minting Superstars Faster Than Almost Anyone, And The US And UK Are Losing Their Grip

Illustration of a dim recording room with the words Two EPs. One Room.

Karan Aujla Turned A Delhi Mall Into An Art Gallery To Sell You Two EPs