The Indian state of Karnataka is the fifth Indian state and the second South Indian state to have its movie theaters on a complete shut-down due to the Pandemic Coronavirus CoVID-19. The Karnataka government has followed suit of Kerala, Odisha, Delhi (UT) and Jammu and Kashmir (UT).  

The shutting down of cinema houses and release dates of movies getting pushed across India, is only adding to the the fear looming around box-office revenues of the Indian film industry. However, given the increasing number of CoVID-19 positive cases in our country [75 infected, 3 cured and 1 dead*], the state governments have but no option left to bring the numbers under control. 

*On March 12, a 76-year-old man in Karnataka's Kalaburgi died of Coronavirus.