₹7,705 crore as the market cap of the four listed companies fell from ₹27,257.4 crore on Saturday to ₹19,551.65 crore at the end of market hours on Tuesday. Incidentally, the earlier biggest single-day fall in shares of Zee Entertainment was five years back, when the scrip nosedived 26.6% on 25 January 2019 after media reports of a federal probe in the businesses owned by Chandra.
“Sony has terminated its merger with Zee considering various legal, leadership, and compliance issues. This resulted in a fall in share prices of Zee, which were held for a long time in the belief that the merger would propel the consolidated entity as the biggest media house in India," said Ashwin Patil, senior research analyst at LKP Securities.
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