Gone are the days when Film directors shifted their film release dates because of IPL in order to save themselves from the losses.
But in the last few years, the situation has been a turnaround and both IPL and movies have been witnessing great footfall. But It is a matter of debate whether viewers are shifting their focus to movies or not. As per Siddharth Bhardwaj from UFO Moviez, people now days prefer content driven movies like kesar, Badla, Luka chuppi has done really well and April also looks promising as a film like Kalank, a remake of the queen and Avengers End Game is supposed to release.
Cricket and movies are like religion in India so the trend has been changed now filmmakers do release their movies in IPL season and earning excellent collections