Click to play videoMumbai: Police have suspended licenses of 34 cinema halls for not screening the stipulated number of Marathi films.
This, after the state government issued show cause notices to 79 of the 138 movie theatres in Maharashtra.
Cinema theatres in the state are bound to screen Marathi movies for minimum of four weeks a year.
The owners of the cinema halls have been given eight days to file their reply.
Marathi film makers have been long agitating over the lack of screening opportunities for them as most cinema hall owners, including the multiplexes, are reluctant to screen Marathi films.
DCP, Licence Department, Vijay Singh Yadav says, "Since 1968, the Maharashtra government has issued this stipulation of screening at least four Marathi films a year. These theatre owners have flouted that law. We have suspended their licences."
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