The 700-seater Aurora Theatre in King's Circle, a bastion of Tamils settled in Mumbai, will start shows right from 3 am, and continue at 6 am, 10 am, 3 pm, 6 pm, and finally the last show at 9 pm.
On the
opening day of the upcoming Tamil film Kabali – Rajinikanth will be seen on the screen of a Mumbai cinema
hall practically round-the-clock, with six shows scheduled on the inaugural day
on Friday. The 74-year-old, 700-seater Aurora Theatre in King’s Circle, a
bastion of Tamils settled in Mumbai, will start shows right from 3 am, and
continue at 6 am, 10 am, 3 pm, 6 pm, and finally the last show at 9 pm.
“All the seats for all the shows
are fully booked,” said theatre owner Nambi Rajan, who is usually clean-shaven
but has sprouted a bushy grey-white beard in tandem with Rajinikanth’s get-up
in Kabali for
the upcoming hit and hot season.
The film
production team has already launched its on-ground promotions for Kabali from Tuesday
in an open-top bus from Aurora Theatre attracting thousands of Rajinikanth fans
daily till the release. In another first for Mumbai filmgoers, two
gigantic cutouts of Rajinikanth and a massive poster will be put up at the
theatre entrance. Rajan said that the entire theatre has been decked up to
celebrate Kabali,including a fresh
coat of paint inside and outside, a new screen, glittering clean ambience and
shining lights.
After the inaugural day, the
theatre will get back to its normal four-shows-daily regimen, for which it has
reported heavy advance bookings. The opening day itself will be a
‘Thalaiva festival’ with a huge procession of Rajinikanth fans after prayers at
the famous Ram Mandir, a traditional band of huge drums, dancing and
celebrations marking Kabali.
A theatre manager said that well
known ophthalmologist S Natarajan of Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital – himself a
die-hard Rajini fan – will conduct a free eye camp for all.
Rajinikanth fan clubs from all
over Mumbai will organise blood donation drives at the cinema hall and the
patrons will also contribute to various charities on the opening
day. Aurora Theatre, which was inaugurated in 1942, was one of the few
good cinema halls exhibiting Hollywood films till the 1980s. Rajan took
over the theatre from its Parsi-German couple owners – Bejan Bharucha and
Gertrude of the All India Pictures Pvt Ltd cinema chain – in the
1980s. Since it was a predominantly Tamil pocket of central Mumbai, Rajan
started to have at least one Tamil film show daily and the theatre became an instant
hit with the local Tamil community.
Earlier, Aurora Theatre has
hosted films like Rajinikanth’s Annamalai, Sivaji and Kamal Haasan’s Thevar Magan. Now,
after Kabali, Rajan and his
Aurora Theatre are keeping their fingers crossed for the next Rajinikanth
release, 2.0 in 2017.
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Source: India
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