Star is not behind in acquiring movie rights, star spend more than sony in acquiring bollywood movies but sadly those movies didn't work at box office. Also in top five only hits are sooryavanshi & bb2, whereas raksha bandhan & bachan pandey are huge flop in box office.
So contrary to popular belief in this forum that flop movies only works for star, flop worked in zee too.
Jhund also an average in box office, earned around 20-25 crore
buddy, you seem to have misunderstood what i have always said .
Big movies with famous star cast and more so which is meant for family viewing or has some connect with mass audience will get good ratings on hindi movie channels for 1st few airing irrespective of which channel it airs on. If movie is not good then after 2 or 3 airings ratings will see major drop and thereafter movie will perform poorly on TV whereas if it is good then consistent good ratings will continue and even see surge after few airings as word of mouth spreads about it.
This is bcoz as i have told that box office report card is never a exact indicator of whether a movie is good or bad...there r various factors at play and depending on that movie becomes a hit or flop at theatre.
A niche /multiplex audience centric subject movie may be a hit at cinemas but these perform poorly when they air on TV as mass audience does not connect with it ...also these days audience of such films skip going to cinemas and watch these films on OTT . A full on good masala movie might prove to be a flop at box office but prove superhit on TV reason being that going to cinemas is beyond the budget of many people bcoz 1stly multiplex tickets r too costly + there r lot less single screen cinemas and there too ticket prices r still quite costly and above all cinema hall penetration is still very less all over the country so people going to watch movies in theatres r just 4 to 5% of total population even incase of films which r these days considered blockbuster in box office collections . Lastly there r films which r really bad and prove to be flop in cinema halls as well as TV.
Coming to the point what difference does it make if a film airs on Disney Star Hindi Movie Channels or rival sony-zee or viacom18 hindi movie channels....it makes a lot of difference. Disney Star has very vast, loyal and dedicated bollywood movies audience base whereas sony-zee, viacom18 with their greater focus being on dubbed south indian movies have lost out on building a good bollywood movie audience base. Also zee has very poor scheduling strategy where not only few bollywood movies r aired but repetition of handful of bollywood movies is another major downside. This results in a bollywood movie leveraging its best potential when it gets aired on Disney Star Hindi Movie Channels rather than on rival network channels.
In the Top 10 premiere charts u can see Disney Star managed to get average / good ratings even for flop / not so good movies like Samraat Prithviraj, Bunty Aur Bubli 2 and i am certain that Average Films like Jayeshbhai Jordaar , Shamshera , 83 though have got average / good ratings on 1st telecast but in subsequent airings this would have shown improvements bcoz of good word of mouth. Had these movies aired on sony-zee or viacom18 hindi movie channels i feel they would not have been in Top 10 list. I strongly believe Had Sooryavanshi, Bhool Bhulaiya 2, Bachchan Panday , Raksha Bandhan aired on Disney Star Hindi Movie Channels then its premiere as well as subsequent airings ratings would be far better as compared to what it got on sony-zee
