TATA SAFARI STORME JOINS ARMY REPLACING MARUTI GYPSY
first pan-India movie.”
Tickets for the Prabhas and Rana Daggubati-starrer were exorbitantly priced. PVR Director’s Cut in Delhi, for example, is selling tickets at ₹2,400 compared to the ₹1,200-1,400 for a regular film and ₹1,800-2,000 for a big release, he added.
PVR-ICON in Mumbai, on the other hand, has gone for ₹1,500 as opposed to the ₹700-800 range viewers are used to. Single screens in the north, Pillai said, were likely to charge anything between ₹150 and ₹200.
The scene in south India is unlikely to be as outrageous. Most states place a ceiling on the maximum price multiplexes can charge for movie tickets although black marketing of tickets may start on Friday.
Big-ticket films like Baahubali or previously Rajinikanth’s Kabali haven’t remained immune from ticket scalping on opening days. However, for all practical purposes, multiplexes in a city like Chennai, for example will charge ₹120 for a Baahubali ticket while single screens should ask for around ₹200.
“We expect the movie to perform extraordinarily well at the south Indian box office. The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments have given permission to increases ticket prices to ₹160 for single screens and to ₹200 for multiplexes,” said Ashish Saksena, chief operating officer, cinemas at BookMyShow.
“The four languages combined should bring in about ₹100 crore on day one, ₹300-350 crore by the end of the weekend and close to ₹500 crore within the first week,” Mohan said.
The first part of Rajamouli’s war epic had earned in excess of ₹500 crore worldwide when it released in 2015.
The two parts star Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Ramya Krishnan and Sathyaraj in lead roles.
Tata Motors Ltd on Thursday said it had signed a contract for supply of 3,192 units of the Safari Storme 4x4 to the Indian armed forces under a new category of vehicles called General Service 800.
The Storme will replace the Maruti Gypsy in the 4x4 light vehicle category. Over 35,000 Gypsies are due for replacement in the coming years.
The ministry of defence had floated a price request for vehicles with three basic criteria— minimum payload capacity of 800 kilograms, hard roofs and airconditioning.
Developed indigenously, the Storme 4x4 has completed a total trial duration of 15 months in various terrains across the country.
Tata Motors has been working towards becoming a full-range combat vehicle firm, with the ambition of becoming a strategic partner to the ministry of defence in defence mobility solutions. It’s also one of the bidders for the futuristic infantry combat vehicles (FICV) programme and for participating in other combat vehicle programmes of the ministry of defence like the FRCV (Future Ready Combat Vehicle), to replace the T-72 battle tank and the FMBT (Future Main Battle Tank).
The defence sector in India is expecting an expenditure of $130150 billion on modernisation and restructuring in the coming decade to achieve the goal of self-reliance.