The fear of IPL no longer looms over film producers, who are willing to take the cricketing property head on by releasing big-ticket multi-starrers, this year Bollywood batting order Chashme Baddoor, Rise Of The Zombie: April 5 Nautanki Saala, Commando: April 12 Ek Thi Daayan: April 18 I Love NY: April 26 Shootout At Wadala: May 1 Gippi: May 10 Aurangzeb: May 17 Earlier the occupancy during the IPL season would only be about 20 per cent, but in the last two years, the percentage has gone up significantly– Ashish Saxena, COO, Big Cinemas Over the years, films have been releasing during the IPL and faring well too.  A good film is a good film. Nothing can stop people from watching a film they want to watch.

Not even cricket — Tanuj Garg, CEO, Balaji Motion Pictures If India is in the race, then World Cup affects a film’s box-office collections, but not everybody is interested in IPL.. If a city is playing on a particular day, the local audience will watch the film on the next day, so overall collections of a film are not affected — Vinod Mirani, trade analyst IPL is not exactly serious cricket, it’s just another form of entertainment. It is not a threat to film producers at all. In fact, it didn’t even cross our minds when we decided the release date of I Love NY— Vinay Sapru,co-director, I Love NY The inception of Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008 sent the Hindi film producers running for cover. After all, they were going to face competition from