Bell Bottom Gets  Postponed  Again

Bell Bottom: Akshay Kumar’s Latest Film Gets  Postponed  Again

The Akshay Kumar starrer Bell Bottom directed  by Ranjit Tiwari(whose 2017 prison-break  drama  Lucknow Central blushed unseen)   now faces  further  delay in its inordinately  delayed release.  Akshay Kumar had happily announced his  trendy espionage period   film’s release  for July 27,2021. By then movie theatres were  expected to re-open.

But  with  the  second wave of the  Covid pandemic still on  and  the third wave looming large  over  the  country,  it seems  unlikely that  movie theatres  would open this  month or even in August.

“The  postponement(of  Bell Bottom) seemed inevitable. There is no  possibility  of  movie theatres  re-opening in July and August.  The producers have  two options. They can  wait  indefinitely or opt for an  exclusive OTT release,” a source close to  the  project informs, adding that  the producers are  now  “seriously  considering” the  OTT option.

“How long can they wait? Even if movie theatres were allowed to open how many  people would actually opt to see films  even with the top stars in movie theatres?” a source close to another long-in-the-waiting  biggie Sooryavanshi wonders aloud.

In America it is different. The  populace , largely  innoculated and  defiantly unmasked , is  making  a  beeline  for the  movie theatres screening F9(the 9^th  film in the Fast & Furious  franchise), Cruella and  Black Widow.