Cinema in Those Times
Recently I went to a Cinema hall in Thanjavur, to watch a cinema, a recent release, after reading the good online reviews. I got the tickets too. It was almost time for screening and an attendant came and told me, Sir, Please go and collect the money at the ticket counter as there is no show today. I got shocked as my eagerness of watching a thriller got shattered, asked him, why so? Since the tickets sold are less than twenty in numbers, we cannot screen the movie. When will you screen this again? Not sure, Sir , he replied. I collected back the money and threw away my dream of watching that movie, as there is no certainty of being screened in the near future. I was really surprised seeing the milieu pertinent to watching cinemas in the cinema halls in this social media era, in Tamil Nadu. We have reached, from a battle ground like scenario in front of the cinema halls, to a situation that there is no surety of watching even after getting tickets. The reasons could be attribut