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Jaya Bachchan alleged that cinema was being targeted by the government. (File Photo)
Samajwadi Party subordinate Jaya Bachchan connected Tuesday urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to person “mercy” connected the movie manufacture and travel up with immoderate proposals to assistance it survive.
Speaking during the General Discussion connected the Union Budget 2025-26 successful the Rajya Sabha, the actor-politician accused the authorities of trying to “kill” the movie industry, saying that the endurance of regular wage workers has go hard and single-screen theatres were shutting down arsenic radical were not going to movie halls arsenic everything has go truthful costly.
“One manufacture has been wholly ignored by you, and different governments were besides doing the aforesaid thing. But contiguous you person taken it to the adjacent level. You person wholly ignored the movie and amusement manufacture due to the fact that you lone usage them for serving your ain purpose,” Jaya Bachchan said.
“Today, permission speech GST, each the azygous screens (theatres) are shutting down. People are not going to movie halls due to the fact that everything has go truthful costly. Perhaps you privation to termination this manufacture altogether. This the lone manufacture that connects the full satellite to India,” Bachchan said successful the Upper House.
She appealed for immoderate “mercy” for the country’s audio-visual manufacture and alleged that cinema was being targeted. “I americium speaking connected behalf of my movie manufacture and making a petition to this House connected behalf of the audio-visual industry, that delight spare them. Please person immoderate mercy for them. You are trying to termination this industry. Please bash not bash this. Today you person started targeting cinema also,” Jaya Bachchan said.
She urged Sitharaman to see the contented “very precise seriously”, pointing retired that it is simply a ‘very hard industry’. “I petition Finance Minister to see and delight bring thing to assistance this manufacture survive,” said Bachchan.
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