Hansal Mehta urges BMC to not cancel night time shoots as Maharashtra begins night time curfew owing to surge in covid-19 circumstances – Instances of India

Director Hansal Mehta has put out a plea to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to permit the Bollywood movie business to proceed night time shoots if precautions and different normal working process (SOPs) are maintained on the units.

In a tweet, the director sought ‘pressing intervention’ from the Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, citing that there are day by day wage staff within the movie business, who solely rely upon shoots for his or her survival.

“Please don’t drive us to cancel even night time shootings @mybmc if precautions and SOPs are in place. We will probably be severely affected significantly those that are on day by day wages and rely solely on shoots for survival. Search pressing intervention @OfficeofUT @AUThackeray,” Mehta tweeted.

Please don’t drive us to cancel even night time shootings @mybmc if precautions and SOPs are in place. We will probably be sever… https://t.co/w3Y7MYta1e

— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) 1617108915000

Amid a spike in COVID-19 circumstances within the state of Maharashtra has imposed a night curfew and different such restrictions with a view to forestall the unfold of the second wave of the coronavirus.

Owing to the surge in circumstances, a bunch of big-ticket Bollywood movies have postponed their theatrical releases. A tough movie commerce estimate suggests Rs 105 crore is at stake with these tasks getting delayed.

Among the many most-hyped movies being pushed for now’s the Amitabh Bachchan-Emraan Hashmi starrer ‘Chehre‘, which was scheduled to reach on April 9. The Rana Daggubati-starrer ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’ slated for March 26, was additionally delayed regardless of its Telugu model ‘Aranya’ and Tamil model ‘Kaadan’ having opened on the designated date. Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘D Firm’ and the Punjabi biggie ‘Puaada’, starring Ammy Virk and Sonam Bajwa, are additionally awaiting new launch dates now.