CMO Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray Officially Announces Reopening Of Theatres And Cinema Halls From October 22, 2021

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said cinema halls and drama theatres in the state will be permitted to operate from October 22 on the condition that they follow all the protocols required to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The state government will soon issue the standard operating procedure (SOPs) in this regard. 

An official meeting was held with the COVID-19 task force, which was also attended by Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut, state chief secretary Sitaram Kunte, filmmakers Rohit Shetty and Kunal Kapoor, theatre personality Makarand Deshpande, Marathi actors Subodh Bhave, Aadesh Bandekar, among others.

Check out the official statement here:

Theatres and auditoriums in Maharashtra will open after 22nd October 2021 while observing all COVID safety protocols. SOP is in the works and will be declared soon.

— CMO Maharashtra (@CMOMaharashtra) September 25, 2021

On Friday it was also shared that all the religious places will be allowed to open the locks from October 7, 2021. An SOP was issued for the same. The devotees and officials managing places of worship to ensure strict implementation of coronavirus-related protocols and have to ensure rules aren’t broken. The Government also made an additional announcement that physical classes in the schools would start across the state from October 4, 2021. From standard 5 to 12 in all the schools in rural areas and classes, 8 to 12 in urban areas would resume. The school education minister Varsha Gaikwad shared.

Maharashtra on Friday reported 3,286 new coronavirus cases and 51 deaths, which took the state’s infection tally to 65,37,843 and the toll to 1,38,776, a health department official said.

With 3,933 patients discharged from hospitals, the number of recovered cases rose to 63,57,012. Maharashtra now has 39,491 active cases.

Even after the full functioning of the cinemas, in order to actually attract the audience to the theatres, big-ticket films such as Sooryavanshi, Shamshera, Satyameva Jayate 2,Prithviraj, Laal Singh Chaddha KGF Chapter2, RRR, Bachchan Pandey, Jersey, 83 The Film, Jayesh Bhai Jordaar are all eagerly waiting for a theatrical release and also star actors like Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh to name a few.