Update from Mumbai and Bollywood

Mumbai has been too much in the news for a rather unhappy reason lately. Fortunately our colleagues at Adlabs, as well as friends and families are unhurt, but killings were going on right outside our Metro BIG cinema and dozens of foreigners and Indians were killer and injured. The terror attacks have hit the box office, though hopefully people will find their way back to the cinemas to dream themselves away for a few hours.

This and other things mean that I will sadly have to give CineAsia a miss this year, which is a particular shame given that BIG Cinemas is honoured as International Exhibitor of the Year. But there is plenty of updates from Film Journal International on the film and cinema industry in India. Nyay Bhushan reports on how Bollywood billions: Indian distribution and production change with the times, while Kevin Lally report on how D vs. E: E-Cinema keeps foothold in India as 2K digital grows. Both articles are well worth reading.

Thank you, lastly, to all the friends and colleagues who have contacted me to make sure that we are all OK. Your kind thoughts and well wishes were much appreciated. These are unhappy times, but they do not weaken our resolve to stay on and make digital cinema happen in India.