Theaters allowed to open with 60 percent after second wave of pandemic subsides
As India is coming out of the second wave of Corona, the cinemas of Surat city are now ready to welcome all the movie-watchers. According to the guidelines of the government, all the multiplexes have already been allowed to open with 60 percent capacity. The Indian film industry was going through its worst phase in the year 2020. The shooting of many big films, web series was stopped due to Corona epidemic. Apart from this, the release of films whose shooting was completed had to be stopped. Due to all this, the daily wage laborers associated with the film industry had to face a lot of trouble even to juggle their two-time bread.
According to the E&Y FICCI report released in March 2021, around 1000 single screens have been closed during this time. The industry had never seen such a big shutdown in such a long history of cinema, so no one had any idea of the damage it would cause. Box office collections and the Food & Beverages business have lost nearly US$1 billion during the lockdown. However, despite all this, this industry will achieve the fastest recovery, such experts believe.
Looking at the footfall trend that emerged after the first wave of Corona, experts say that only a new release can pull people towards cinema at this time. Because the audience has already seen most of the films lying in the library. In such a situation, people will not come to the cinema houses until there is a new release on the big screen. After the second wave of Corona, Surat Exhibitors Association is looking forward to a promising screening in the coming months.
Since August 19, the audience is going to see many new films. Like Hollywood’s F9: The Fast Saga, Akshay Kumar’s much awaited film Belbottom and Sooryavanshi from Bollywood, Amitabh’s Chehre, Kapil Dev’s biopic ’83’ besides Ranbir Singh’s Jersey, Satyamev Jayate, Maidan, Prithviraj, Brahmastra, Pathan, Lalsingh There are many movies like Chaddha, No Time To Die, Top Gun 2. Apart from Bollywood, more than 50 regional movies and about a dozen Hollywood movies are preparing to entertain the people, which are going to be released in the coming 12 months. Due to the release of movies one after the other, the entire calendar is going to become very attractive and interesting, which is going to be beneficial for most of the audience and after waiting for a long time, now they will be able to turn to the cinema.