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Indian Cinema Halls Reopen On Friday: A List Of Bollywood And Hollywood Films Releasing Oct 16

October 15, 2020

MUMBAI, INDIA – FEBRUARY 25: (L-R) Anurag Kashyap, Guest,Anubhav Sinha and Taapsee Pannu attend the … [+] screening of the movie ‘THAPPAD’ on February 25, 2020, in Mumbai, India. The film is set to hit theatres again on Friday, October 16. (Photo by Prodip Guha/Getty Images)

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Indian cinema halls and theaters reopen starting October 15 and we bring you a list of films hitting the screens this weekend. Production houses have not announced the release of any new film in October but several blockbusters are set to get a re-release as the cinema-lovers step.

Om Raut’s Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior, Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, Hrithik Roshan-Tiger Shroff starrer War and Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer Shubha Mangal Zayada Saavdhaan are a few films that will release in theatres again starting this Friday, October 16. Vivek Oberoi starrer biopic, PM Narendra Modi will also be one of the first movies to be screened in theaters.

Hollywood films – the latest John Wick movie and Sam Mendes’ 1917 are also slated for re-release in India on Friday.

NEW DELHI, INDIA – JULY 31: A worker chemically disinfects the premises inside a cinema hall at PVR … [+] ICON during a press preview to show their preparedness of reopening halls amid the Covid-19 pandemic, at DLF Promenade, Vasant Kunj, on July 31, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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The announcement of re-releases does not come as a surprise because theatre-owners expected it. Especially, owners of single-screen theaters in smaller cities and towns of India had said earlier that non-availability of new films for release would be an additional challenge. “We have had salaries to pay for past six months with no income at all. Even the smallest of business will help us improve the situation at this point,” a theatre-owner had said while informing that they’d run old classics till the time new releases are available.

Here is the complete list of films releasing in theaters:

Films releasing on October 16

Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan

Malang

War

Kedarnath

Thappad

Section 375

Dream Girl

PM Narendra Modi

English films re-releasing in Indian theatres on October 16

John Wick Chapter 3

1917

My Spy

Punjabi film re-releasing on October 16

Sardarji

Carry On Jatta 2

Tamil film re-releasing on Oct 16

Asuran

A promotional poster for Suraj Par Mangal Bhari.

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New movies

After the central government announced re-opening of the theaters, a few production houses have announced release of movies in November. These include Manoj Bajpayee-Diljit Dosanjh’s Suraj Par Mangal Bhari and Ranveer Singh-Deepika Padukone-starrer 83.