Owing to the stringent safety guidelines in India and rising COVID cases, big-budget film production cannot be green-lighted amid the crisis.
While some actors jumpstarted work with brand endorsements and few shows aired new episodes, pending film projects have been put on hold indefinitely.
Hence, several filmmakers are looking for alternative ways to resume work and United Kingdom seems to provide an interim solution.
Recently, the entire cast and crew of Bell Bottom flew out to London to commence the first schedule of the film.
Reportedly, Akshay Kumar hired a chartered aircraft to accommodate the team.
Cast members Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta along with Jackky Bhagnani and Deepshikha Deshmukh jet off the UK earlier this week.
Bell Bottom is scheduled to release on April 2, 2021.
Actor Adil Hussain, last seen in the ZEE5 film Pareeksha, also shared the location of his next film that will be scheduled in UK.
In May 2020, UK Broadcasters along with Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services (COBA) published a guideline document recommending the establishment of close contact cohorts (CCCs) of cast and crew.
The “cohort” is defined as a small number of people who “unavoidably need to be in close contact with each other.”
The members of the cohorts will be tested regularly. The documents add that “this approach offers a reasonable and sensible level of risk mitigation but it cannot eliminate risk.”
Let’s hope the new norms and protocols allow production to run smoothly and safely.
