City cinemas brace for raising curtains
The City cinema hall owners started sanitising their premises for welcoming the audiences
Bhubaneswar: A day after the state government allowed cinema halls to reopen from January 1, owners of cinema halls and theatres started preparations for raising the curtains with strict adherence to Covid-19 norms.
The cinema hall owners started sanitising their premises for welcoming the audiences. As per the guidelines, cinema halls will reopen with 50 per cent capacity.
The big screens were shut for audiences in March 2020 as part of the lockdown guidelines in the wake of the pandemic.
Orissa POST had earlier highlighted the financial burden on the cinema halls in the Capital city due to the lockdown. Maintenance and equipment costs, salary bills and other expenditures pushed the cinema hall owners into trouble. Big cinema halls in the city have incurred losses of around Rs 20-30 lakh each due to the restrictions.