It’s hard to imagine a tentpole Hindi movie not playing at Mumbai’s popular G7 multiplex, colloquially known as Gaiety-Galaxy. Surely enough, the management of the Bandra theatre — which has been shut since September 7 — is trying to resume operations before December, keen not to miss out on two of the month’s biggest offerings, Salman Khan’s ‘Maatrubhumi: May War Rest in Peace’ and Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘King’. 

While Salman’s war drama is scheduled to release on December 4, Shah Rukh’s action thriller will open on December 24. An industry insider revealed, “The management is keen to have the theatre operational before December, and is working towards its reopening in the last week of November. After all, ‘Maatrubhumi’ and ‘King’ are exactly the kind of films that draw audiences in hordes to Gaiety-Galaxy.”