Bengaluru: Now the government has let the theater operate with 100% occupancy and has a relaxed night hour at hour, stakeholders hope for a full house – in some of the halls at least Friday.
This sector has been bucked badly by locking and restrictions induced by a pandemic.
In August, when Covid-19 cases declined significantly from the second wave height, the theater was allowed to operate at a capacity of 50% of the audience.
However, most performances do not attract a large crowd, while producers also refuse to release massive films that are afraid of cold responses.
This industry now hopes for rotation, especially because there has been a good response in online bookings for the last James Bond film Daniel Craig ‘there is no time to die’.
The film was released on Thursday around 150 screens (both theaters and multiplex) throughout the state.
The time is impossible to be better for the surrounding carnataka film industry.
“The response to the film was very good on Thursday, and we hoped it would be better on Friday when the theater could function without restrictions on occupancy.
We even hoped to have a household during a night show in several theaters,” said Hg Surendra, Director of Executing Digital cinema distributor UFO Moviez.
Mohit Bhargava, Regional Director (South), INOX Leisure Ltd., said the question for the film bonds and several Kannada films was poured on Thursday.
Two Kannada films – ‘Mohhandas’ who explore the childhood of Mahatma Gandhi, and ‘Kaage Motte’ – will regard the screen on Friday, like the Telugu film ‘Republic’, which is based on the life of the deceased Karnataka IAS Officer DK Ravi.
Tamil film ‘Shivakumarin Shabadam’ was also set for release.
But the actual crowd pulled on October 14 when two large ticket tickets – Dhunia Vijay-Starrer ‘Salaga’ and ‘Kotigobba-3’ featured Sudeep – besides Shivarajkumar-Starrer ‘Bajariani-2’, crashing into the screen.
“We hope that these films will help us recover from the closure and loss of pandemic,” said KCN Ravishankar, the owner of the Urvashi theater.
“But people are still scared, and many want to wait more time before adventuring to watch movies.
Full home expectations can be premature.” While almost all multiplex 270 screens in the country have been continued, only 30% of the 630 single screen theater Reopened.
The industry claims to lose Rs 5,000 Crore because of locking and restrictions since the hit pandemic, and industrial representatives say they are very much to recover.
The lack of coordination between producers, distributors and exhibitors has proven deterrent.
For example, many seniors want filmmaker to plan their film time correctly and frown at the release of a large film simultaneously.
They want intervals of at least two weeks.
However, ‘Sangaga’ and ‘Kotigobba-3’ have been scheduled to be released on the same day.
“We will talk to the manufacturer of these two films and ask them to understand,” said Umesh Banakar, Vicepressident, Karnataka Chamber of Commerce.