Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai (2021).
In his Zoom interaction, Khan appeared to already be discouraging fans from thronging the cinemas. “Some people have booked auditoriums and are planning to screen my film, which I won’t encourage because I don’t want people to say ‘Salman Khan ki picture dekhne gaye aur corona phail gaya [they went to see a Salman Khan picture and corona spread],’” he said. “Once this pandemic is over and theatres reopen, if people like the film, we will try to release it on the big screen.”
As an actor-producer and second-generation film industry professional, Khan is well aware of how distribution and exhibition work. As an early adopter of social distancing practices soon after the pandemic broke out in 2020, he knows the perils of encouraging crowds to gather in a closed space, even though that might be a cinema hall running at half capacity. And as a philanthropist through his Being Human Foundation, he is aware of the immense suffering that
Covid-19 crisis: Salman Khan to offer financial help to 25,000 cine workers
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Daliya Ghose
On Friday, 07th May 2021,20:05
Amid Covid-19 surge in India, Bollywood superstar Salman
Khan has decided to provide financial aid to 25,000 cine workers by transferring
money to their bank account, the Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees
(FWICE) said.
According to B N Tiwari, FWICE of President, the 55-year-old
actor will be paying Rs 1,500 to every worker on monthly basis. We got a
confirmation from
Salman Khan last night that he will help 25,000 workers with
Rs 1,500 each monthly. We will soon finalise and send the list of the workers
Salman Khan is Being Human Again, To Donate Rs 3.75 Cr to Daily Wagers of Film Industry
Salman Khan has been providing meals to frontline COVID workers and helping people affected by COVID and in need of money or food
| 7 May 2021 2:26 PM GMT
Mumbai: While India continues to grapple with the COVID situation, several Bollywood stars and celebrities have started helping people either by arranging oxygen cylinders and medicines or by distributing food.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, fondly referred to as Sallu Bhai has decided to give Rs 1,500 each to 25,000 daily wage workers from the film industry. The actor s manager is said to have contacted the Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE) to get the bank account details of the daily wage workers registered with the federation.
Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna have stepped up to fight the good fight as India grapples through a COVID-19 crisis.
Khanna, who is a former Bollywood actress and a celebrated author, took to Twitter to share that she and her husband were donating 100 oxygen concentrators in an effort to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Wonderful news Dr Drashnika Patel & Dr Govind Bankani of London Elite Health through Daivik Foundation are donating 120 oxygen concentrators and as @akshaykumar and I have managed to get our hands on 100 as well, we have a total of 220.Thank you for the leads. Let’s all do our bit,” tweeted Khanna.
Is there anything the BTS Army can’t do? The Indian fan base of K-pop group BTS has pooled its resources together to raise more than Rs2 million in COVID-19 relief for the country.
India is currently in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis with daily cases cross 300,000, with a dire need for medical supplies, hospital bed and oxygen. Many others are also struggling to eat with lockdowns forcing people to stay indoors and robbing them of their daily incomes.
In a tweet posted on the fan group’s timeline, Bangtan India writes: |As we know India is facing one of the worst 2nd waves of Covid 19, each passing day it’s getting tougher on the health workers and front line workers. We ask ARMYs around the world to help us as its a helpless situation.”