Bengaluru: The Covid-19 pandemic has left a substantial impact on the film industry in 2020, single-screen movie theatres in Bengaluru have been forced to close down due to a lack of revenues."Most of the theatres in the city are closed, we had opened up our film theatre but people are avoiding visiting the cinema in the view of COVID-19.
There is no income at all; we couldn't even manage the cost of operation," said Ganesh, Manager of Santosh Theatre.While speaking to ANI, a theatre manager Ganesh said, "We barely see 20-25 people for the show.
We have a seating capacity of 1,200 seats, as per orders we have 600 seats available, we have discussed it with the management and decided to close the theatre until further orders.