{"id":136581,"date":"2022-09-20T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/india-s-srinagar-city-to-start-showing-movies-after-over-two-decades"},"modified":"2022-09-20T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:50:14","slug":"india-s-srinagar-city-to-start-showing-movies-after-over-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/india-s-srinagar-city-to-start-showing-movies-after-over-two-decades","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Srinagar city to start showing movies after over two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, India Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; A top Indian government official inaugurated a multi-screen cinema hall in Srinagar, the largest city in the restive Kashmir region, on Tuesday and it will begin showing movies next month, more than two decades after cinemas were closed there. &#8220;The government is committed to change perceptions about Jammu and Kashmir and we know people want entertainment and they want to watch movies,&#8221; said Manoj Sinha, the region&#8217;s top official, while inaugurating the first multiplex in the city. Inox (INOL.NS), an Indian multiplex chain, is establishing the 520-seat hall with three screens in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir region that has been at the forefront of an insurrection by Muslim militants since 1989. Srinagar had over a dozen single screen cinema halls operational until then but a majority were forced to shut down after warnings from militant and separatist groups. The last cinema hall closed in 1999. Sinha also inaugurated two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, India Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; A top Indian government official inaugurated a multi-screen cinema hall in Srinagar, the largest city in the restive Kashmir region, on Tuesday and it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[19,21],"class_list":["post-136581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}