Hyderabad: The Telangana state government is actively considering a proposal to allow five shows in theatres every day against four now. The government is planning to relax the norm for films with a duration of less than three hours and allow theatres to exhibit five shows.
If the proposal goes through, the theatres would start screening the morning show at 10 am, against 11 am or 11.30 am now. The five shows from 10 am, 1 pm, 4 pm, 7 pm and 10 pm and theatres have to close by 12.30 midnight in single screen theatres.
Cabinet Panel wants 3,000 mini-theatres
The recommendation to screen five shows a day was made by a Cabinet sub-committee appoin-ted by the government to develop the Telugu film industry.
Committee chairman Talasani Srinivas Yadav, the minister for cinematography, said, “There has been a demand from theatre managements to increase film shows from four to five as they were not recovering maintenance costs and suffering losses.”
The committee has also recommended that the government allow setting up of 3,000-plus mini theatres in mandal headquarters with a seating capacity of 200 to 250.
As per the plan, the mini theatre can come up in 3,800 sq ft space, including 2,400 sq ft of screening area and 1,400 sq ft for a cafeteria. They will have digital screening of films. This is because small films find it difficult to get theatres for screening as all of them booked by major producers.
