The issue regarding the ticket rates in Andhra Pradesh has been an ongoing one. Despite many attempts from many prominent figures of the Telugu film industry, the Jagan-led government did not back down from its decision of lowering ticket rates. The tickets are as low as 10-20 rupees in AX theatres as well.
Due to this, many prominent theatres decided to close down their operations as the cost spent on running the theatres proved to be way more than they were making through ticket rates.
One among these was V Epiq in Sulurupeta, owned by Prabhas, which holds the record for South Asia’s largest movie screen. They also decided to close down operations due to losses. According to the G.O, because V Epiq came under the Panchayat, the prices were shockingly low for a high-maintenance theatre.
Now, in a turn of events, the AP government has given special permission to Prabhas’ theater V Epiq to hike the ticket rates. Due to this, V Epiq will be opening its operations once again.
This is a good sign that things are changing slowly yet surely at least.
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