Topic: cinema halls

Nearly 10,000 movie theaters across India closed in mid-March. From 15 October, cinemas will become one of the last few categories of public building to reopen.

Apart from cinema halls, the Delhi government also allowed functioning of all weekly markets outside containment zones, with immediate effect.

Chief analyst at BoxOffice Media LLC Shawn Robbins said that without a miracle, the box office will regress in coming weeks.

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Most theatres in Kashmir were shut due to diktats issued by militant groups in late 1980s & 1990s to limit access of local residents to Indian cinema, says a former DGP.

Distributors in Pakistan say the absence of Indian films always affects business since very few in the country watch Hollywood films.

Chouksey has written to the high-level government committee pitching for mandatory playing of the national anthem in cinema halls. A government committee has now circulated his full representation to all stakeholder ministries for their views on the same.

The national anthem in cinema halls apparently is the biggest challenge facing the nation today requiring a dozen ministries to work on it