Multiplex major PVR plans to invest Rs 150 crore to open up to 40 screens across the country in the next fiscal . The company's target of having 1,000 operational screens has been pushed by a year due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to the end of fiscal 2022-23, a top company official has said. "We had to push back our plan by exactly a year because of the pandemic ... By the end of the financial year 2022-23, we should be able to reach 1,000 screens," Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, Joint Managing Director, PVR Ltd told . The company, which added 9 new screens this week in Mysuru and Kanpur, plans to add 30-40 new screens in the next financial year beginning April 1. Bijli said Rs 150 crore would be outlay for the opening of new screens in the next fiscal. PVR at present operates over 844 screens at 177 properties in 71 cities (India and Sri Lanka). Bijli said a strong content pipeline of star-studded Indian and regional films as well as foreign language films … [Read more...] about PVR to invest Rs 150 crore to add 30-40 screens next fiscal; eyes 1,000 screens by FY23