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Famous Bollywood filmmaker and producer Boney Kapoor on Saturday remembered the period on social media when there was a strike in the industry and the sets were locked. Boney Kapoor posted a picture on Instagram, in which he is seen riding on a horse and going on a journey to Vaishno Devi with fellow actors from the industry.
Boney Kapoor had gone to Vaishno Devi during the strike
The filmmaker posted the picture and wrote in the caption, “In the year 1986, when there was a strike going on in the industry and the sets were locked, we went out to visit Vaishno Devi. After this trip, when the industry reopened, the show ‘Hope 86’ was organized to help the cine workers.”
This veteran actor was seen in the picture
He told that in the pictures his fellow actors from the film industry are seen, which include Padmini, Ashok, Poonam, me and Suresh (Naidu) Babu. He said, “We were all going to climb the mountain and pray to Mata Vaishno Devi that the strike should end, the industry should start running again, the work of all the films should proceed, the association members should get a fair increase in their wages, and the films stalled due to the strike could be released again.”
Why was there a strike in Bollywood?,
There came a time in the year 1986, when the Maharashtra government had imposed heavy tax on movie tickets. Seeing this happening, many stalwarts of the entertainment world considered it an injustice to the public and took to the streets, which included stars like Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, and Randhir Kapoor.
200 shooting of films was stopped
Due to the strike, the entire entertainment industry had to suffer huge losses and the shooting of about 200 films was stopped. One and a half lakh workers had become unemployed and the studios were deserted. At that time this news had spread to foreign countries. A committee of actors was formed to calm the matter. When pressure increased, the government relented and reduced the tax from Rs 15 crore to Rs 5 crore. The strike ended, but the loss was heavy. The industry showed solidarity and a grand charity show named ‘Hope 86’ was organized. In this, the stars raised money to help the workers, although not everyone was happy. Some artists suffered more losses due to the strike. It is said that this increased the rift among the stars.
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