A strike that brought Bollywood film production to a halt has been called off, unions and employers say.
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Unions said staff were working unreasonable hours and in many cases producers were months behind in payments to their staff.
The strike had also hit the booming television production in Mumbai (Bombay) in western India.
Implementation arguments
"The producers have agreed to our demands," Mr Chaturvedi of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees said. He told the BBC a new committee would look into payment disputes. And he said television filming sessions would be limited to 12 hours.
Sushma Shiromanee, vice-president of the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association, told the BBC: "The strike is over. We have agreed to the same demands as on the earlier Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)."
The BBC's Prachi Pinglay in Mumbai says the two sides signed a MoU two years ago detailing wages for each category of worker in Mumbai's film and TV studios.
It also included guaranteed wage increases of up to 15% a year. However, since then producers and workers have argued over the implementation of the MoU.
Mr Chaturvedi's federation of 22 unions represents some 147,000 members. Earlier this week he complained that in some cases wages had been withheld for up to six months, leaving workers on the verge of starvation.
(BBC)
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