The single-screen cinema halls of yesteryears in Guwahati may soon become a thing of the past.
Nowadays it only takes a few minutes on an app to book tickets of the latest movie that you have been dying to watch. But it wasn’t always so. There was a time when you had to queue up for hours, under the scorching sun or pouring rain, to be able to get your hands on balcony seats. Also, the snack counter was nothing like it is now, albeit prices were much more affordable, but you had only one choice of popcorn (salted) and maybe two or three choices when it came to beverages. But now with multiplexes across the city, watching a movie is quite a different experience than before. It is not surprising that the old has had to make way for the new and plexes are often preferred over one screen halls. But then, what about the halls of yesteryears, how are they faring now? On one hand, there are theatres that are visibly struggling to bring in footfall, but on the other, there are halls that have been renovated to such an extent that they can give even the biggest of the multiplex chains a run for their money.
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This story is from the December 2018 edition of Eclectic Northeast.
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