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Good News: Cinema halls to operate with 100% occupancy in Mumbai

Yesterday on 2nd March, the Maharashtra Government gave a huge surprise to the Maharashtra citizens by easing the Covid rules. The Government of Maharashtra released a notice yesterday which says All shopping complexes, cinema halls, restaurants and bars, sports complexes, gyms, spas, swimming pools, religious places, drama theatres (natyagrihas), tourist places, entertainment parks etc are allowed to operate with 100 per cent capacity in 14 districts.

The 14 districts are: Mumbai city, Mumbai suburban, Pune, Bhandara, Sindhudurg, Nagpur, Raigad, Wardha, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sangli, Gondia, Chandrapur and Kolhapur.

“For other administrative units excluded from this list, these shall operate at 50 per cent of the capacity,” the notification said.

A government notification said these are districts where the first vaccination dose is more than 90 per cent, the second dose is over 70 per cent, the positivity rate is less than 10% and bed occupancy of oxygen supported or ICU bed is less than 40%.

Well, this news has given a huge satisfaction to the upcoming films as there are a lot of big films in line at the box office. This news will definitely affect the business by earning great numbers asAmitabh Bachchan’s film Jhund which is all set to release on 4th March and also Akshay Kumar’s Bachchhan Paandey which is releasing on Holi on 18th March.

Reacting on this news, trade analyst also took his Twitter handle to share his excitement for the same. He wrote, “FINALLYYY… CINEMA HALLS IN 14 DISTRICTS [INCLUDING MUMBAI CITY & MUMBAI SUBURBAN] OF MAHARASHTRA TO BE ALLOWED TO OPERATE AT 100% CAPACITY… Happy days are here again… #BO to get a boost with this new development. #Maharashtra #CinemasAreBack”

 

CT Team

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