India, June 29 -- Actor Aamir Khan has spoken about high-priced tickets for films across multiplexes in India and how this is inconvenient for movie-goers. Speaking with Pinkvilla, Aamir drew a contrast with earlier times when "the masses could actually afford to watch the movie". When asked about a solution, Aamir said that "low-cost cinemas coming out in districts that don't have a single theatre will make a big difference to the movie business".

Aamir said that the rent of theatres "is so high, and the infrastructure that is built in multiplexes, obviously, the ticket price goes up again". He talked about earlier times, when people could watch a film without shelling out a lot of money. "This medium was called a mass medium at one tim...