How can Bollywood survive the coronavirus pandemic?
As India's Hindi film industry gets ready to resume production, what will have to change?
India’s mega Hindi film industry, Bollywood, is staring at a loss of more than $300 million. Since mid-March, film production has been stalled and the country’s 9,500 theatres are shut because of the coronavirus outbreak. This has led to massive job losses.
Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which is also home to the multi-billion-dollar industry, has allowed resumption of film shoots and production work from next month, but with severe restrictions. How will social distancing norms affect filmmaking? How will Bollywood's trademark song-and-dance spectacles be filmed?
In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how Bollywood will have to change to survive the coronavirus crisis.
Presenter: Devina Gupta
Contributors: Tisca Chopra, Bollywood actor; Amit Behl, senior joint secretary, chairperson - outreach committee, CINTAA; Sidharth Anand Kumar, vice president - films & events, Saregama India Ltd
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- Fri 19 Jun 2020 14:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia & East Asia only
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