Mumbai: With several new restrictions cropping up due to second wave of covid-19, numerous co-workers from the city of Mumbai began leaving the city. A cine worker of the setting department, was apparently in queue to fetch an unreserved ticket to Uttar Pradesh and said, “Our work has stopped and we don’t have money to pay our rent I have borrowed for my railway ticket to go back to my home town.”
The covid case load in Maharashtra has shown alarming rise. With that the film makers shelved many of their work proceedings and took a brief break until the situation gets better. This has eventually caused a financial burden to many cine workers and daily wage labourers in the Bollywood film industry.
It is learnt that few production houses shooting outside the state are hiring local workers as a result of which most of workers who have id card are jobless. Subsequently, now they are unable to bear the high rental charges during such adverse situation.
The Film Studio Setting And Allied Mazdoor Union has hired 5 lakh workers and almost majority of them are restrained at home. General Secretary Gangeshwar Srivastav said, “More and more members are planning to return to their villages and work has stopped completely in Maharashtra”.
He raised the concern that CM Uddhav Thackeray should notice that cine workers just like those from other sectors should get financial aid.