Panaji: Four days after the theater was allowed to reopen with a capacity of 50%, Leisure Inox began the screening of the film on Friday.
However, Mandiri Theater Like Cine Samrat and Cine Ashok have not continued the operation because the norms today make it cannot be implemented.
Unlike Multiplex, most of which filter flick Hollywood and Bollywood, other theater in Goa depends on Hindi customers, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam.
With a Covid-19 pandemic delaying the release of a new film, a smaller film house like the Hira film exhibition has decided to take it slowly.
Although the state government extended the hours of the night for a week, he allowed the theater to reopen with a capacity of 50%.
“We wholeheartedly welcome the state government’s decision to allow the cinema to operate.
We will evaluate our preparations and will look for operations in all of our four cinemas in Goa,” said Region Director, West, INOX Leisure Ltd, Atul Bhandandar.
The cinema will be operated by a team that is fully vaccinated with theaters who are “often cleaned in-inside” and disinfected, said Bhandandar.
Masks, temperature checks, payments without contact and e-ticketing will be mandatory.
Pravin Zantye, which is a Z-square theater chain management partner and the president of the owner of the Goa Theater owner, said that smaller cinemas were unable to run at a capacity of 50%.
“The cost is the same, the salary is the same but the income is not the same,” Zantye said.
“If the theater in Goa is reopened at this point of time, there will be a severe problem with regarding the release of a new film, every week, especially when the theater in Maharashtra and Kerala is still closed,” he added, showed that Hindi, England, Marathi language films And Konkani is popular in this order, among the theater people in Goa.
To try and increase income, INOX offers private playback and food delivery services.
Inox is exploring a long multi-flour service window to provide breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner order.
INOX will provide food on the online food order platform, said Bhandandar.