Photo Essay – Movie Tickets, Old/Extinct Cinemas
Searching lost time.
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]
Chanakya Cinema in Chankayapuri shut down in 2007 – its building was demolished two years later.
The old Sangam Cinema in RK Puram too was razed.
The colonial-era Plaza in Connaught Place has been converted by the PVR Cinemas chain into a multiplex. BIG Cinemas, a theater chain of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd, acquired the nearby Odeon in 2009.
The oldest British-era theater in Connaught Place, Regal, which was built in 1932, continues to exist in its original form. For now.
Note: If you have old cinema tickets, please contact me at mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com.
Rest in peace
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Love it! What a wonderful archive this will turn out to be. I have no tickets to contribute though.
you could call the collection ‘ephemera’ or something of the sort.