Beating all local language offerings, Marvel’s superhero flick Avengers: Endgame emerged as the most popular film on online ticketing site BookMyShow in 2019, selling 8.6 million tickets, the highest for the year. Following Avengers and Uri as the top ticket sellers were Shahid Kapoor’s controversial romantic drama Kabir Singh and action thriller Saaho. As far as actors go, Akshay Kumar with 9.2 million tickets and Ayushmann Khurrana with 6.3 million tickets overall, dominated charts with three films each. The number of international live events listed on BookMyShow grew 62% in 2019 while the number of live events wholly executed by BookMyShow grew 156% since last year. India’s fascination for cricket continued as the live entertainment genre which saw most ticket sales, followed closely by music concerts and theatricals.

Source: Mint December 31, 2019 09:55 UTC