As 2025 enters its final two months, it's the perfect moment to take stock of what lies ahead, and also how India's film industry has performed so far – what we've gained, what we've lost, and what hopes remain as the year closes.

This has been a year of surprises: love stories found their way back to theatres, mid-budget films reclaimed the audience's trust, and stories rooted in homegrown flavours turned into box-office winners. Yet, 2025 also saw some high-profile disappointments that forced the industry to rethink its festival-release strategy and what truly draws audiences to the big screen.

IndiaToday.in spoke to trade experts Girish Wankhede and Ramesh Bala to decode the box-office pulse of 2025 that will decide the shape of things to come – from Bollywood's revival to the South's

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