An employee of PVR theaters sanitizes the food counter at the reopening of cinemas in New Delhi, India. Seven months after screens went dark, cinemas reopened Thursday in much of India with mostly old titles on the marquee — a sign of the country's efforts to return to normal as the pace of coronavirus infections slows but also of the roadblocks that remain. - AFP
BANGALORE, India, Oct 16 (AFP): Cinemas in movie-mad India tentatively re-opened officially on Friday but with worries about coronavirus and only old films showing, early punters were few and far between.
The pandemic has clobbered theatres worldwide but in India, home to the planet's most prolific movie industry, it has upended a culture that treats the stars of the silver screen almost like gods.
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