Pooja Bhatt Shares Her Quirky Take On At Producers And The Exhibitors Feud Amidst The Lockdown, Wonders Where's The Audience

The tension between the producers and the exhibitors aroused as the makers of films are turning their back to theatres and opting for OTT platform for digital release amidst the Coronavirus lockdown. The owners of theatres like PVR, INOX, Carnival Cinemas and many more have expressed their disappointed on the same and since then, they have been at loggerheads with each other. Seeing the feud between producers and the exhibitors, actress and filmmaker Pooja Bhatt expressed her views on the matter in the most quirky way possible.

Taking it to her Twitter handle, she shared a picture of an empty theatre picture and backed it with, “The fight between the Producers and the exhibitors in these times is like two bald men fighting over a comb. Where is the audience? #realitybites.” After she tweeted, fans started giving their own views about theatres where one wrote, “Just wondering when people can seat for 2-3 hrs without maintaining social distancing in a flight, why can't they sit maintaining social distancing in a movie hall, give the option to people, whoever wanta to go and watch a movie let him do that” while another was seen writing, “Audience is at their home. Now Audience wants entertainment on their TV, Laptops , Mobiles, iPad, Computers. Me be the Audience wouldn't go to theaters next few months due to health reasons & financial problems. Producers & exhibitors must find a midway solution for this.”

Nevertheless, films like Ayushmann Khurrana – Amitabh Bachchan’s Gulabo Sitabo, Vidya Balan’s Shakuntala Devi are releasing on Amazon Prime. There are reports that Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani’s Laxxmi Bomb, Janhvi Kapoor’s Gunjan Saxena-The Kargil Girl will also be having digital release but nothing is confirmed. After the lockdown was imposed, the first film to release on OTT was Irrfan Khan and Radhika Madan’s Angerzi Medium.

Meanwhile, there have been reports of the film producers requesting the state government to allow the production work. Likewise, now the Multiplex Association of India has also asked the central government to reopen the theatres from June 30.