10,033 Screens: The Number That Caps Every Box Office Record

India ended 2025 with 10,033 cinema screens, according to the FICCI-EY 2026 report. The country added 240 new screens during the year and shut 124, a net gain of 116 in a market that releases close to 2,000 films annually.

The distribution of those screens matters more than the total. Only 3,150 of India's roughly 19,500 pin codes have a cinema of any kind. Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala and Maharashtra added the most screens last year, while Andhra Pradesh lost 54 and Karnataka lost 29.

At roughly 6.8 screens per million people, India remains the most under-screened major film market in the world. The United States has about 109, France 95, the United Kingdom 66 and China 64. Every record set at the Indian box office is set against this ceiling, which is why footfall growth and screen growth are the two numbers the exhibition trade watches above all others.

PVR INOX operates 1,743 of those screens, Cinepolis 432 and Miraj over 200. The remainder is largely single screens and regional chains, whose closures rarely make headlines but reshape the map every year.