Chasing 'normalcy' during a pandemic: How south Indian film industries coped with lockdown challenges, shutdown of theatres
Covid-19 outbreak in March, 2020 and the subsequent lockdown brought the four South Indian film industries to a grinding halt. Months later, when they resumed work, the world had changed around them, but there’s a glimmer of hope that there’ll be some sense of normalcy in summer of 2021.
Hemanth Kumar
December 30, 2020 14:44:13 IST
In January 2020, post the success of Allu Arjun’s
Ala Vaikuntapuramulo and Mahesh Babu’s Sarileru Neekevvaru, Telugu film industry was on a high. Business was booming, several filmmakers and actors had their eyes set on pan-Indian films. However, by mid-March, the COVID-19