Jammu, Dec 9 : The culture of watching movies in Cinema halls is seems be getting dull day by day, whereas thecinema halls have been converted into multiplexes with all modern facilities in the winter capital of the state. A drastic fall out has been recorded in crowd in Cinema halls in Jammu in last two decades, different people have different reasons for this fall out. In 80's and early 90's, there had been heavy rush on the ticket counter of a cinema hall and lots of people used to visit cinema halls, but with the pace of time the culture of watching cinema in the cinema has been going down in the society. "In 80's and early 90's, cinema halls were the only mean of entertainment in the civil society, we didn't had Tele vision, internet, CD/DVD players, video games etc. to entertain ourselves, and we were crazy about the movies," said Sirinder Singh, 62, resident of Talab Tillo. "Today youth is busy with internet, there are hundreds of channels in TV and moreover I don't think the recent movies can be seen with the families, so the fall out in the crowd is obvious," Sardari Lal added. The Cinema Hall owners are also facing big losses due to this fall in the crowd in the cinema halls and trying new tricks to attract the customers towards the cinema halls. The culture of Cinema halls have been converted into multiplex and the first ever Multiplex had been opened in Jammu by The KC group, with two Audi's inside. The people have obviously attracted by the multiplexes but the number of seats has been reduced from 300 to 120. The multiplexes in the city are also seems to be unhappy with the response of the people. "The interest in watching movies in cinema halls have been reduced in the city, earlier we use to play the movies 4-5 weeks with house full, but now hardly any movie go house full for second week," said Rajinder Singh, manager Indra Multiplex. "But the response always depends upon the Movie, a good movie always attract more public," he added.
However, the Jammu city is the only city having multiplex in the state, but the crowed can only be seen in the first few days of the movie release. Last Year, the Union minister of New and Renewable energy, Farooq Abdullah expressed that the cinemahalls should be opened in the valley as well, and faced a strong criticism from the separatists in the valley. Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra had also urged to open cinema halls in valley last year and said," "When I was young, Broadway Cinema was my temple. That's where I went to study cinema. Movies were not just entertainment. |
