Mumbai: The entertainment industry will observe stringent Coronavirus standard operating procedures (SOPs) while filming movies and TV shows amid the partial lockdown beginning Monday. Industry representatives said they will monitor film shoots countrywide, enforce pandemic protocol on production houses and punish offenders.

On Sunday afternoon, CM Uddhav Thackeray called a virtual meeting with film and TV producers and appealed to them to cooperate with the state’s strictures. After the partial lockdown was announced, Ashoke Pandit, chief advisor of FWICE, said, “A virtual meeting of film associations will be held on Monday to devise strict SOPs for all shoots, not only in Mumbai, but across the country...We will levy heavy fines for violation. Strict action will be taken against production houses that fail to enforce masks and sanitisation.”

Amit Behl, senior joint secretary, CINTAA, said they would revert to August-September 2020 SOPs. “We will have masks, sanitisers, paramedics on set, and devise a social media awareness drive about prevention and vaccination.”