HYDERABAD: Filmgoers will have to shell out Rs 20 for two-wheeler and Rs 30 for car parking in theatres across the state. This is the parking fee that was being collected in single screen theatres, which will resume now. Accepting one of the many demands of the film industry, the government has issued orders allowing theatres to charge parking fee. A GO (dated July 20), however, made it clear that parking fee cannot be collected in multiplexes and theatres located in commercial complexes.
The government said single screen theatres were being allowed to collect the parking fee for the safety of vehicles of filmgoers. It was also pointed out that those who were not coming to the theatres were parking their vehicles in theatres and maintaining the parking premises and ensuring the safety of vehicles had become an issue for theatre owners.
“It has been a long-pending demand and theatres can get some income from it,” secretary of Telangana Film Chamber of Commerce M Vijendar Reddy said.
Though the state government had lifted the lockdown on June 20, film theatre owners did not open the screens as they wanted the government to issue GOs on some of the demands, including parking fee, it had agreed upon. On July 23, some of the film theatres in the city are expected to reopen.
The government said single screen theatres were being allowed to collect the parking fee for the safety of vehicles of filmgoers
