Baaghi 4 Advance Booking: Is the Hype Real or Manufactured?
The much-hyped Baaghi 4, releasing on 5th September 2025, has been aggressively promoted as a blockbuster in the making. With Tiger Shroff returning in an action-packed avatar and heavy marketing campaigns across platforms, the film was expected to dominate the advance booking charts.
However, a closer look at the booking patterns raises serious questions about the authenticity of its “record-breaking” numbers.
The Suspicious Booking Pattern
On BookMyShow, the film is shown as “trending,” with 39.42K tickets booked in the last 24 hours. At first glance, this looks impressive. But industry trackers noticed that the per-hour booking trend suddenly disappeared, a feature that usually provides transparency about how tickets are selling in real time.
The timing of this removal coincided with unusually sharp spikes in bookings, hinting at possible artificial inflations through corporate or bulk bookings.
Discrepancies in City-Wise Advance Sales
The PVRInox advance sales report further strengthens these doubts. Let’s look at the numbers from September 5, 2025:
Pune shows 279 shows but only 50 tickets sold – an absurd mismatch.
Goa, with 15 shows, recorded just 26 tickets – nearly empty.
Patna, with only 10 shows, somehow has 869 bookings, which looks highly disproportionate compared to larger metros.
Delhi (108 shows, 1345 admits) and Mumbai (99 shows, 3447 admits) show moderate, believable numbers.
Chennai & Ahmedabad both show ticket sales above 1500, which is unusual given their limited market for Hindi films.
The uneven distribution indicates possible block bookings in selected cities to inflate the overall figure.
Corporate Bookings – A Common Tactic?
Bollywood has often faced criticism for inflating opening numbers through:
Corporate bookings: Tickets are purchased in bulk by studios or affiliates to show high demand.
Artificial “trending” status: Platforms highlight selective data while hiding per-hour tracking.
Selective city pushes: Random cities suddenly show disproportionate sales, while others remain flat.
The Baaghi 4 advance sales data fits this pattern perfectly.
Why This Matters ?
Inflated advance booking numbers create a false narrative of success. This not only misleads genuine moviegoers but also impacts industry trust and sets unrealistic benchmarks for future films. A film’s success should be measured by organic audience interest, not manufactured hype.
If Baaghi 4 genuinely connects with audiences, it will show in the post release collections and word of mouth. But until then, the suspicious booking trends suggest that the film’s marketing team may be relying more on optics than organic demand.
Final Word
While Baaghi 4 may still pull crowds once reviews and word of mouth roll in, the advance booking hype looks questionable at best, and manufactured at worst.
Audiences deserve transparency, not manipulation. If the film is strong, it doesn’t need inflated numbers to prove its worth.
Disclaimer: The box office figures are compiled from various sources and our research. The figures can be approximate, and CINEINFINITY does not make any claims about the authenticity of the data. However, they are adequately indicative of the box-office performance of the films in question.
