India Takes Steps to Add Theatrical Screens After COVID Closures
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Despite having the largest film industry in the world in terms of volume, India has one of the lowest global screen densities, but this is set to change.
In pre-pandemic years, India produced some 2000 films a year but has just seven screens per million population as opposed to 30 in China, 68 in the U.K.
and 125 in the U.S. With about 1,500 single screens closing, many of them permanently, during the pandemic, the total screen count has shrunk to 9,423 for a population of 1.3 billion, per the 2022 annual EY/FICCI media industry report.
To redress this, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has entrusted the Film Facilitation Office with the task of simplifying the process of opening new theaters via an online single window clearance system. “There are multiple regulatory authorities [i.e.
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