According to KPMG study in 2011, the Hindi film industry is the world’s sixth largest movie industry. Its box-office revenues are around $ 1.4 billion and projected to rise to $ 3 billion in 2016. It is estimated that more than 1700 feature films are produced in India each year, the highest number in the world.

China is the second largest movie market in the world, after the US. Its box-office revenues are $ 2.2 billion. India and China combined constitute one of the largest movie markets in the world.