Avengers Endgame tickets are now live in India, feeding frenzy erupts online: ‘This is worse than tatkal’, say Marvel fans

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Updated: Apr 21, 2019 13:04 IST

Tickets for Avengers: Endgame were made available for pre-booking across India at 12 am, Sunday, and early screenings were sold out within hours. Fans took to social media to share their excitement, and disappointment.

Shortly after being made available on online ticketing platforms such as BookMyShow and PayTM, fans reported that tickets for the hotly anticipated Marvel movie were sold out in major metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore. However, additional screenings are expected to be added to keep up with the demand. On BookMyShow, over 1.2 million users have already listed themselves as ‘interested’ in watching the film.

A Marvel Movie Marathon, in which all 22 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be screened back-to-back, culminating with Endgame, is also being organised in certain locations. The film’s three hour plus runtime has certain drawbacks, though, mainly in limiting the number of screenings that can be squeezed into one day.

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Fans took to Twitter to either boast about having scored tickets, report online ticketing platforms crashing, alert other fans as to where the last remaining tickets were still available, or express disappointment at having missed out. “Its 3.30am in the morning and yes the tickets for Avengers: Endgame just started for IMAX: Wadala and i got mine booked. This has never happened before for any movie ever in India. Its crazy and Worth it,” one fan wrote. “Avengers: Endgame tickets are finally on sale in India and are almost sold within hours. Ticket booking apps/websites have crashed,” wrote another. Some fans even complained that despite an increase in prices, they weren’t able to secure tickets.

You can check out more reactions here.

Yeh avengers ki tickets jis speed se sold out huyi hai, usse speed se mera ex rang badalta tha. 😭😒#yaadaagyiuski — ❤️ (@chaikideewani) April 20, 2019

Almost all the Avengers : Endgame tickets are sold out for 26th at my place in just a few hours I'M SO ANNOYED — madhu (@bizzleshawn) April 21, 2019

Bought my life's most expensive movie ticket for Avengers Endgame.. — Agnimitra Sharma (@AgniOnFire) April 21, 2019

Avengers: Endgame tickets sold out faster than Tatkal Tickets 😮

What a hype 😍#AvengersEndgame — Gaurav Rai (@Gaurav_Rai_) April 21, 2019

I think booking Avengers: Endgame tickets is the biggest non-goal oriented struggle I've ever had. But anyways I'm happy coz..

WE'RE IN THE ENDGAME NOW!!!#AvengersEndgame @MarvelStudios pic.twitter.com/Wtg7UKYCpI — Saarth Kurle (@SaarthKurle) April 21, 2019

Already booked for IMAX.

And it is very cruel of you guys including multiplex owners , @Marvel_India and @PaytmTickets to loot fans. U all have increased ticket price insanely and top of that also charging absurd Internet handling fees. — AFAN MUJAWAR (@Afan_Mujawar) April 21, 2019

@Russo_Brothers @MarvelStudios @Avengers @Kevfeige Avengers: Endgame tickets are finally on sale in India and are almost sold within hours. Ticket booking apps/websites have crashed. Luckily got my IMAX tickets. Can't wait!🙈 — Harshit Gupta (@HarshitG01) April 20, 2019

Couldn't book for 26th



As it was sold out not even other languages were spared



Thanos wipes all the tickets — Aditya (@adi11_aditya) April 21, 2019

Avengers hype is unreal. Tickets are selling like hot cakes. — Rohit (@iamFayezur) April 21, 2019

The amount of effort we put into booking tickets for #AvengersEndgame was a lot more than what #Avengers are doing to defeat Thanos..😂😂 — Rishi Thakker (@WatashiWaSugoyy) April 21, 2019

#AvengersEndgame all tickets sold out. Waiting for Hindi version.1st day 1st show whatever it takes... Whatever it takes... Hay @Paytm please open booking of Hindi version Avengers for all cinemas as soon as possible. — Navneet Pandey (@Nvnt_Pndy) April 21, 2019

Why the hell are Avengers #Endgame tickets selling out so fast! The next weekend is almost pretty much sold out and do you guys know where one should be purchasing PVR tickets from for best prices or something...? — Ishan Agarwal (@ishanagarwal24) April 21, 2019

I have never seen such a response for any movie in India, #AvengersEndgame tickets are selling like hot cakes. It will probably have the best advance booking of all time (including Hindi ones). — Anirudh Somani (@onsomani) April 21, 2019

Early estimates peg the film’s opening day numbers in India to be around the Rs 40 crore mark. Avengers: Infinity War opened to Rs 31 crore on day one, and made more than Rs 100 crore in its opening weekend - an unprecedented achievement for a Hollywood film in India. If Endgame meets expectations, it will comfortably beat Kalank’s opening day figures to become the biggest film of the year.

The film has already broken pre-release records in the US, according to online ticketing platforms such as Fandango and Atom Tickets, selling more tickets in the first 24 hours than previous Marvel films Captain Marvel and Infinity War combined, in addition to films such as Venom and Aquaman.

Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner, among others. It will be released on April 26 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu in India, in formats such as 2D, 3D, 4DX, 3D 4DX, IMAX 2D and IMAX 3D.

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