"We will have at least one major film released every week," he added.Ĭhristmas Eve sees the opening of Reliance Entertainment's "83", a sports biopic charting India's first Cricket World Cup win, also delayed by more than a year. Hindi-language Bollywood is India's biggest film industry but in normal times the vast country also produces hundreds of films in its 21 other official languages every year.īefore it opened on Thursday, fans in Tamil Nadu poured milk on posters of Rajinikanth's face in respect for the actor, who inspires almost god-like adulation in the state.įilm trade analyst Komal Nahta said there was a "massive backlog" of films worth an estimated 50 billion rupees ($668 million) in production costs from films made during the pandemic but not released. The drive-in operated by Jio - owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani - has space for 290 cars and "boasts of the biggest cinema screen in town," the firm said.Ĭreating excitement further south was a film not from the studios of Bollywood but a Tamil-language production, "Annaatthe", featuring local superstar Rajinikanth. India's largest multiplex operator PVR is soon set to open an open-air, rooftop drive-in cinema - pegged as the country's first - atop a Mumbai shopping mall. "This film is very crucial for the film industry," Rajender Singh Jyala, chief programming officer for the country's second-largest cinema chain INOX, told AFP. I don't remember the last time I have seen such a huge crowd of moviegoers," he told AFP. "You can see the crowds chock-a-block here.
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"We have been waiting for almost one and half years for a big Bollywood movie to be released," said Sikander, one fan eager to watch the film.
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The industry is hoping for a rebound with theatres back in business across the country, most recently in Mumbai, capital of Bollywood, the world's most prolific film industry.įirst out of the blocks on Friday, just in time for the Diwali festival weekend - traditionally a time for blockbuster releases - was "Sooryavanshi", the first marquee Bollywood film to be released on the big screen in 18 months.įans danced and chanted the name of the action caper's star Akshay Kumar - battling a terrorist sleeper cell in Mumbai - with one even baking a chocolate cake embossed with the name of the movie.