Ahead of Maharashtra lockdown, CM Uddhav Thackeray spoke to Rohit Shetty and other stakeholders of cinema business; DETAILS inside : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

April 5, 2021

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The second wave of Coronavirus in Maharashtra has gone on one other stage, stunning everybody. The every day quantity of instances went shut to the 50,000 mark on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, it breached the stated mark because the state recorded 57,074 instances. Consequently, the Maharashtra authorities on Sunday initiated a lockdown-like state of affairs within the state until April 30. As a consequence, multiplexes and single display cinemas will stay shut. The movie and tv shoots, nevertheless, have been allowed.

Before taking this harsh determination, the chief minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, just about met stakeholders from completely different sectors on Saturday April 4 to focus on the state of affairs and to search their cooperation. The leisure sector bought a good likelihood to opine their views in entrance of the chief minister. The trade was represented by director-producer Rohit Shetty, Kamal Gianchandani, CEO, PVR Pictures, Kapil Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, UFO Moviez, Akshaye Rathi, movie exhibitor and distributor, Alok Tandon, Chief Executive Officer, INOX Leisure Ltd, Nitin Datar, head of Cinema Owners & Exhibitors Association of India (COEAI), Devang Sampat, CEO, Cinepolis India, Prakash Chaphalkar, secretary, Multiplex Association of India and others.

A supply reveals, “Uddhav Thackeray ji appreciated Rohit Shetty as he took the brave and difficult decision of postponing his film, Sooryavanshi. Rohit, in turn, agreed that the industry should support the government’s endeavour of saving lives.” Sooryavanshi was scheduled to launch on April 30, 2021 however the Akshay Kumar-starrer now stands postponed, particularly after the lockdown-like state of affairs got here into impact.

The supply additional provides, “Kamal Gianchandani offered his support to the government as well. But he also added that their sector has suffered for a year and that they’ll require help in the form of waiver, subsidies, etc. in order to tide over these new curbs. Nitin Datar meanwhile requested waiver of property tax on single screens and also to do away with certain charges in the hefty electricity bill.” The supply continues, “Many in the exhibition sector also asked if cinemas can function at 100% capacity after the second wave dies down.”

When requested what Uddhav Thackeray had to say to these recommendations, the supply reveals, “Uddhav ji acknowledged that the cinema sector has suffered the most in the pandemic and that theatres have been dedicatedly following the SOPs laid down by the authorities. But Uddhav ji insisted that the current priority of the government is ‘zindagi, jaan aur uske baad kaam’ (first life, then livelihood). He stressed that people will get jobs in future but first, they need to survive this deadly second wave.”

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