The three small pigeon holes named dress circle, front row and balcony. Its surely not the front row but we used to call it ninety during the college going days and none but the ones who had few coins left in their pockets used to opt for it.

During the intermission people would rush to queue up in the dirty washrooms laced with Gutkha stains. Standing in the line was no guarantee to get you a ticket and windows dropping shut right on your face is a common phenomena. Following Indian rail the Indian cinema had built up an industry of touts most of them were employed by the hall owners themselves.

Come the online wave and the market was disrupted into customer valuation. Multiplexes came up to delight the customers and give them a an experience of hifi,HD and the best of seating comfort.

One such time, the Ega theater in Chennai - a surviving single building with two / three halls mainly catering to the residential locality of the Gujrati, Marwari area. An entire family came in, settled into a corner and immediately went to sleep.

Amusing, but the guard explained - the city s summer power cuts were responsible to give the locales a feel of AC when the current went off.