Audiences in small Indian towns have started making their way back to the cinemas, signalling a recovery in the pandemic-hit industry. Recent hits like political drama The Kashmir Files, Telugu films RRR and Bheemla Nayak, and KGF: Chapter 2 (Kannada) have set the cash registers ringing in tier-two and tier-three towns like Jaipur, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Vishakhapatnam, Salem, Trichy, Gwalior, and parts of east Punjab, among others.
All the three south Indian language films have been dubbed in Hindi, and are doing well in northern India as mass-market commercial entertainers.
Source: Small-town Audiences Flock Cinemas As Recovery Sets In | Mint