with bhopals single screens deciding to throw open their doors to public amidst the ongoing strike there has been some respite for the cinema buffs from the city however it might still take a while for new movies to hit the screens in the city while the bhopal cine association was contemplating calling off the strike the producers guild of india is sticking to their decision of continuing the strike till the tax issue is sortedrecently three singlescreen cinema halls namely rangmahal cineplex bharat cineplex and muskan cinema called the strike off and open their gates for the movie lovers as it is diwali time we decided to open our doors the strike hasnt been called off yet but we have informally been told by some officials that a decision will be taken after the elections in the state if the government agrees with us or a middleground is reached then the strike will be called off but if not the strike will continue as of now we only have south indian movies being screened because producers have refused to release films in the state in the last three weeks two big movies released but due to the strike we had to suffer losses shared manvir singh from rangmahal cineplex adding to this bharat cineplexs ashwini kumar agrawal said till the code of conduct is in place the government cannot take any decision there is no sense and logic in doing something when there is no one to listen to our grievances we are currently screening a bollywood movie and even though it hasnt got a very good response i feel something is better than nothingmembers of the bhopal cinema association tried a lot to meet chief minister shivraj singh chouhan to put an end to the strike but he wasnt available for a meeting deepak simhal president of the association said the government is not able to help us and the producers guild and the multiplex association are unable to decide whose share the new tax will go in due to this the single screen halls are suffering we recently met the chief secretary vp singh but nothing came out of that meeting maybe because madhya pradesh contributes only four per cent to the nationwide movie business this matter is being stretched so muchaccording to aziz uddin secretary of bhopal cinema association the state had suffered a loss of approximately rs 1520 crore and if the strike continues the losses will increase further the government too is incurring losses because of this he said while some theatres have opened the other remain closed because there are no films releasing at this moment if the multiplexes open then everything will regain normalcy we tried to contact the government officials but they havent bothered to solve our issues and now the code of conduct is acting as a barrierthe news that few cinema halls have opened left many bhopalis happy though student deepak sondhiya who lives near rang mahal cineplex finally