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Guess Who: Coronavirus Spooks Bollywood

Bollywood seems to be spooked by the coronavirus. Many film shoots are affected. Can you guess the celebs Rajeev Masand is talking about?

By theopinionatedindian Mar 6, 2020, 11:17 IST

Rajeev Masand has published a blind item about bollywood being spokked by the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The effects of Coronavirus are felt across the globe. Even bollywood is facing issues due to the pandemic. If experts are to be believed, it will hurt the global economy. Movie goers too will try to avoid going to the cinemas, as advisories insist on avoiding crowded places. The box office queen too had to cancel her plans of attending an event in Europe owing to the coronavirus.

The safest among the lot of celebs is this germophobe young superstar. The same one who delivered several back to back hits in the past two years. He sanitizes his hands & bathes several times a day anyway.

A movie which is supposed to release today, is also affected. Its advance collections are not at the levels they should have been. Coronavirus has been blamed as the culprit.

Blind Item

The fast-spreading coronavirus has led to the cancellation of major events globally. Now there is news that a few Bollywood films might be affected too. The biggest of these is a multi-starrer film that was set to go on the floor later this month with a long shoot planned across parts of Italy. According to the grapevine, that outdoor schedule has been put off for now. The filmmakers are reportedly working round the clock to see if they can start the film on schedule. The plan is to begin with ‘interior’ scenes that they can shoot in studios in Mumbai and Hyderabad and hold off the ‘outdoor’ sequences meant to be shot in Europe for later in the year.

Another film, the remake of a popular 1990s comedy, has also hit a snag. One last song of this otherwise virtually complete project was scheduled to be shot in the Far East. But now the makers have decided to go to Ooty or to Ramoji Rao Studios in Hyderabad.

A new film from a big production company starring an A-list leading lady and a breakout actor from one of last year’s best films may also be delayed. The first schedule was supposed to be shot overseas; the filmmakers are currently brainstorming whether they should put off the shoot until it is safe to travel or rewrite the script to relocate it locally.