Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Independent film Audience in India

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Independent film in India — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Independent film has an estimated audience of 3,160,718 people in India.

The average Independent film fan in India is 29.3 years old, more male, and lives primarily in Maharashtra.

The audience is concentrated in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

Category: Movies & TV · Type: Topic · Subtype: Movie genre

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-17.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Independent film profile in India.

Audience size
3.2M
in India
Gender
27.8%
72.2% male
Age
29.3
average years
Country rank
#1949
Topic in India
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+21%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Independent film fans

27.8% are female, 72.2% are male, average age 29.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

27.8%
Female
72.2%
Male
Demographic split for Independent film audience in India
MetricValue
Female27.8%
Male72.2%
Average age29.3
Estimated audience size3,160,718
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 29.3
average years
Age distribution of the Independent film audience in India
Age bracketShare%
16-1943%
20-2929%
30-3915%
40-498%
50+5%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

2.5%

of the worldwide Independent film audience comes from India.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Independent film
CountryShare
United States21.7%
China7.2%
Japan7.1%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the India average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Independent film audience in India is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Independent film fans by region: top regions in India
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Kerala~70K1.50×
02Sikkim~2K1.30×
03Arunachal Pradesh~2K1.14×
04Nagaland~2K1.11×
05Mizoram~2K1.11×
06Manipur~4K1.06×
07Meghalaya~3K1.03×
08Tamil Nadu~80K1.02×
09Goa~3K0.99×
10Tripura~4K0.98×
11Karnataka~70K0.94×
12Telangana~40K0.93×
13Assam~30K0.93×
14Himachal Pradesh~10K0.93×
15Uttarakhand~10K0.92×
16Chhattisgarh~20K0.91×
17West Bengal~90K0.90×
18Jammu and Kashmir~10K0.90×
19Jharkhand~20K0.89×
20Andhra Pradesh~30K0.87×
21Maharashtra~100K0.86×
22Odisha~30K0.85×
23Punjab (region)~30K0.82×
24Haryana~30K0.80×
25Madhya Pradesh~50K0.78×
26Rajasthan~50K0.76×
27Gujarat~70K0.75×
28Bihar~50K0.75×
29Uttar Pradesh~100K0.67×
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in India who actively search for Independent film. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across India. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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