Ajay Bijli

Managing Director, PVR INOX Ltd. · 1 appearance on the record.

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8statements → 4claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 4.12/5average certainty → 1.75/5average debate potential → 5said about them ↓

2 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ajay argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Bijli: Celluloid movie prints cost ₹50,000 versus under ₹1,000 digitized
“Hindi movies used to be in these celluloid canisters, and they used to be 50,000 rupees a print. And now it's not even like thousand rupees because they're digitized.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 6:03 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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Everything Ajay Bijli said on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Ajay Bijli: $100M movies cannot recoup costs without theatrical release
“The awareness of the movie and this forty two billion dollars that I'm talking about and the 21 that was coming to back, coming to them can never get recouped if they go straight to streaming. So if a hundred million dollar movie gets made and you want to mone…”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 56:28 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Bijli: Unbending actor fees after box office flops cause producers heavy losses
“Some people just didn't budge from their fee, regardless of how their previous performance was. So then the producers end up losing their shirt.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 1:25:21 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Bijli: Taking a de-glamorized view of entertainment improves long-term outcomes
“Actually the more de-glamorized view you take of the industry, the better off. You will be in the long run.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 24:33 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Bijli: Multiplexes account for 70% of India's theatrical box office revenue
“So box office wise, 70% of the revenues come from multiplexes because of a higher average ticket price.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 46:11 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Bijli: Theaters work for short-form sports screenings, but long-form makes audiences restless
“I think cinemas are meant to show movies only. But definitely there are peaks and valleys. And when cricket becomes exceedingly more important than movies as well. And the short form of cricket, I've noticed people don't get restless. Any sport, short form, wh…”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 1:06:35 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Bijli: Celluloid movie prints cost ₹50,000 versus under ₹1,000 digitized
“Hindi movies used to be in these celluloid canisters, and they used to be 50,000 rupees a print. And now it's not even like thousand rupees because they're digitized.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 6:03 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Bijli: South India leads cinema attendance at 12 visits per year
“South, I'm sorry, I'm clubbing the entire south into one category, but Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, English, consumes the highest number of films. In a year, and the movie going index is also the highest, which is 12 times a year.”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 47:41 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Ajay Bijli: Indian film volume returned to 1,800 titles annually post-COVID
“So even right after 20 to 23, can you believe it? We had 1800 films still. So if you compare 19, 20 to eight, yeah, exactly the same number of films. And even now I was just tracking because I didn't know what Nikhil will ask me. Quarter one, quarter two, quar…”
Ajay Bijli Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 1:01:29 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath

The other half of the tape: Ajay Bijli's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 1 episode on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nikhil Kamath 4

Statements about Ajay Bijli, by other people (1)

Insight
Subramaniam: Entertainment Entrepreneurship Requires an Industry Rolodex
“This is a business that requires a Rolodex. Because even if the entrepreneur has the material, he might like, how many years does it take for a good song to reach a right person? There are so many good material out there today on that you'll find that you'll n…”
Vijay Subramaniam Aug 14, 2023 ▶ 1:36:21 Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith Aug 14, 2023 21m
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