Andhra Pradesh High Court today (September 30, 2008) dismissed the petition seeking hike on movie ticket rates. Recently, Andhra Pradesh government has slashed down the ticket rates. Theatre owner of Sensation Cinema, backed by some big Tollywood producers, filed petition in court asking to intervene in the issue and allow the producers to hike the rates in the first two weeks of a film release.

Few months ago, a group of producers met Chief Minister YS Rajashekar Reddy asked to negate the option that allows the producers and theatre owners to hike ticket admission rates in the first two weeks. So the government passed new G.O accordingly. This put some other big producers like Bujji whose Chintakayala Ravi is hitting the screens in a big fix as it would dent in collections. Now court dismissing the petition, he has no option but release it on October 2nd.