Missing those theatres!!

Missing those Old Cinema Theatres Badly!! PVRs and INOXs, despite the coziness and comfort they provide can never match the electrifying atmosphere that a old cinema theatre on a narrow gully provided!! I still remember those days..not so far...just six years before when I saw a tamil blockbuster movie in an old theatre. The audience welcomed the introduction of their hero and heroine by showering flowers on the screen. Each and every punch dialogue was received with a bang!! The comedy scenes were received with waves of laughter. The audience went frenzy and danced to the popular numbers. The comments passed by the audience were more entertaining than the movie itself!! Truly the atmosphere was rocking and in Ravi Shastri's vocabulary, it was "Truly Electrifying".

That old theatre was shut down. A multiplex stands there now. I happened to watch another blockbuster recently there. The audience true to their elite nature did not even laugh at the comedy scenes. Songs went by, fights went by,climax too went by....the audience were as muted as ever. There was no excitement in the movie hall. Blame it on the eliteness of the audience or the coziness of the hall that had put off the audience to sleep.....I rue missing those old days when the atmosphere in the cine halls was more exciting than the movie itself!!!