Category
Movies & shows
Cinema tickets and live events. PVR INOX, BookMyShow. Flat perks like buy-one-get-one sit on each card's own page.
No card in your wallet earns rewards on movies & shows yet.
When you add a card that does, it will rank here automatically.
Best in market
Free-ticket milestone co-brands now out-earn plain BOGO cards. BookMyShow RBL Play and Kotak PVR INOX are the two dedicated movie co-brands left standing in 2026. · Top-tier picks from the whole Indian market, researched 7 Aug 2026.
RBL Bank BookMyShow Play
A ₹500 BookMyShow discount every month you spend ₹5,000 on the card
₹500 + GST, waived on ₹1.5L/yr (LTF for BMS Super Star members)
Lowest trigger in the category: just ₹5k monthly spend unlocks both tickets, plus ₹500 BMS welcome credit and ₹100 off F&B. Effective ~10% back on the qualifying spend, paid in tickets you'd buy anyway.
Issued via the BookMyShow app and availability is gated (effectively invite/offer-led). ₹250/ticket cap means you top up for premium formats. Utilities, fuel, rent, wallet loads don't count toward the ₹5,000.
Kotak Mahindra Bank PVR INOX
Free PVR INOX ticket worth ₹300 for every ₹10,000 monthly spend, stacking to 5+ tickets at ₹50k+
₹499 + GST, no spend waiver
You already own it, and it scales: a ₹30-40k/mo household earns 3-4 PVR tickets monthly (₹10k+/yr in tickets) with no BOGO pairing requirement. Book solo or in bulk.
PVR INOX screens only (useless for other chains/events). ₹300 cap forces top-ups for IMAX/recliners. Claimed tickets lapse in 60 days. Rent and wallet loads excluded from milestone. Fee never waived.
Axis Bank My Zone
Buy-one-get-one on District app movie tickets, second ticket free up to ₹200, once a month (code AXIS200)
₹500 + GST
The monthly District buy one get one is worth about ₹2,400 a year, and ₹120 off Swiggy twice a month rides along, a lot of movie nights for a small fee.
The ₹200 cap covers barely half a metro multiplex ticket, and it is District-app-only. Lounge access needs ₹50,000 of spend per quarter. IndusInd Legend gives the same ₹200 buy-one-get-one lifetime-free, so there is little reason to apply for this one.
Your wallet · Movies & shows
What this category is actually worth
The same checks as the wallet page, narrowed to all 0 cards that earn on movies & shows. Set a monthly figure for it in to put rupees on these.
Earnings here
What each card would return on movies & shows at your spend. raw rates, before caps.
Every card in your wallet is excluded from movies & shows. See the reasons in the table above.
Milestone progress
Milestones on these cards, against your total spend routed to one card.
None of the cards that earn here has a milestone.
Fee check: does each card pay for itself?
Value is still counted across your whole wallet, not just this category. a card earns its fee wherever it wins. Waivers are not assumed.
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Where the market beats your wallet
Your best card against the top pick in Best in market, just above. The numbers only, since the pick itself is already on this page.
No market pick with a comparable rate for this category yet.