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opinion from a fellow player: Bollywood films, while fun to watch, tend to make bad moviestocks. reasons inside
Generally speaking, Bollywood films tend not to report their box office totals to Exhibitor Relations (ERC) which is the official source HSX uses for this game. When they do, they often stop after a week or do so unreliably. For example, this summer's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag only reported some weeks. And it was out of theaters after only 6 weeks. As you may know, the moviestocks for limited release films cash out after 12 weeks. So you can see, when a film only reports partial official box office and then is out of theaters just a few weeks later, it makes a moviestock unnecessary (and a bit un-fun to play)
Also, remember that a film that makes $1M will only be a $1 stock. That tends to not be very interesting for this site's purpose. And while small distributors routinely get $1 moviestocks, they are because of starbond implications, which Bollywood films rarely have.
Now there actually have been several Bollywood films with moviestocks over the years. For example, films that involve actors with starbonds. For example, Aishwarya Rai has been in several Bollywood films that had moviestocks.
Two ways to keep up with Bollywood moviestocks: first, check the market calender each week looking for new IPOs, and second is to use HSX advanced search. At the advanced search page, under 'security type' select moviestocks. then, select 'distributor'. search for UTV (one of the larger distributors of such films), it will bring up that companies current films (although there is only 1 right now Peter Gaya Kaam Se PGKS) I am not sure if there are other Bollywood films currently on the exchange, but perhaps a little searching on your part can uncover more. The film Dhoom 3 opens this December, perhaps that will get a stock.
(I tried to be factually accurate, but errors are a possibilty, but I hope this helps some.)
Bollywood releases on HSX? Sep 27, 10:03
opinion from a fellow player: Bollywood films, while fun to watch, tend to make bad moviestocks. reasons inside Sep 28, 17:24
I found about 38 old Indian films that were on HSX, and only 6 had over 2M in total gross, led by MONSN (13M) and JODHA (3.4M) Sep 28, 22:43
