Bollywood has come to a grinding halt as the industry bleeds jobs and money once again.
This is the grim picture being painted by a cross-section of industry insiders who are grappling with filmmaking, post-production world, TV serial shoots, and theatres being shut indefinitely in most states with India fighting off a fierce second wave of COVID-19 infections.
“There’s no silver lining. We are in a critical stage where our exhibition sectors like our theatres expect zero revenue in the coming months. With shootings being halted and theatres being the first to close and [the] last to open [during] this pandemic, our situation doesn’t look optimistic… It’s a huge setback,” said Nitin Tej Ahuja, CEO, Producers Guild Of India, in an exclusive interview with Gulf News.