{"id":7330,"date":"2020-03-18T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2020-03-18T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:09:39","slug":"ekta-kapoor-suspends-all-balaji-productions-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/ekta-kapoor-suspends-all-balaji-productions-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekta Kapoor suspends all Balaji productions amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ekta Kapoor said safety and well-being of the company’s employees, cast and crew is of paramount importance to her.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To contain the spread of novel\u00a0coronavirus, producer\u00a0Ekta Kapoor\u00a0on Tuesday announced that she has suspended all administrative and production work cross Balaji Telefilms Limited, Balaji Motion Pictures Limited and ALTBalaji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a statement posted on her official Twitter account, Ekta said safety and well-being of the company\u2019s employees, cast and crew is of paramount importance to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn light of the\u00a0pandemic\u00a0spread of the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0virus, all administrative and production work across Balaji Telefilms Limited, Balaji Motion Pictures Limited and ALTBalaji stands suspended till further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are complying with all safety and precautionary measures suggested by the government to help contain the situation. We are confident that together we will show our resilience and bounce back. We urge everyone to be safe and ensure necessary health measures,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ekta\u2019s statement comes a day after director-producer\u00a0Karan Johar\u2019s Dharma Production announced the suspension of all administrative and production work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, various film bodies in India including Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE), Indian Film & Television Directors\u2019 Association (IFTDA) and Producers Guild of India decided to put shootings of films, TV shows and web series on hold from March 19 to March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various events, award functions, interviews, shooting schedules stand postponed or cancelled in view of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ekta Kapoor said safety and well-being of the company’s employees, cast and crew is of paramount importance to her. To contain the spread of novel\u00a0coronavirus, producer\u00a0Ekta Kapoor\u00a0on Tuesday announced that she has suspended all administrative and production work cross Balaji Telefilms Limited, Balaji Motion Pictures Limited and ALTBalaji. In a statement posted on her official …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[2906,197,12733,82,83,12696,12700,12732,4509,12734,12731,366],"class_list":["post-7330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-actor","tag-actress","tag-balaji-telefilms","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-actress","tag-bollywood-diva","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-ekta-kapoor","tag-ekta-kapoor-suspends-all-balaji-productions-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","tag-indian-television","tag-production"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}