I am not too sure whether my excitement is to see the Endhiren the movie or to see a tamil movie in Aurora.
It seems just like the other day when Aurora was showing MGRs Kavel Karen, rickshakaren, vetaikaran...from 12 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9 and 9 to 12. Not to disappoint the Malayalee crowd, on Sunday 9 to 12noon the classic and serioust flick of Madhu/Prem Nazir / Sathyen will be shown.
For SIES student from tamil division, I always used to wonder why is that Malayalam movies have the same cast movie after movies. It was like a family of 15 odd people moving around as a troupe to act in some 100 movies.
Usually the well behaved Kerala crowd will be followed by a frenzy crowd after a blaring alarm bell would make a dash for gate which will be manned by a hapless guard, who will eventually leave his post to a much tougher looking local dharavi born bouncer.
Bouncer will also have business interest of being the inside man for the touts sellingtickets in black. The tout is a woman with 50 odd tickets rolled and hidden in her no look (can’t look) area.
Promoting a movie is not recent a phenomena, MGR and Shivaji, used their massive fan base to just do this 30 years ago.
The purist would like to sincerely see the photo posters of the existing movie neatly displayed on the left side of the entrance and to the right would be the ‘coming attraction’ Claims and prediction whether the movie will run for 15 weeks or 25 weeks will be made then.
Cat calls followed by roaring laughter and reprimanding by a serious movie buff will be followed by a nice live fight. It will be over in 5 minutes and they will continue to enjoy the movie being seated in the adjacent rows. When the show gets over, both will do their best to avoid each other but will loudly ask engaiya avan... The proud lady from his family would say .... vittu thallu ya....
With all these happenings, Aurora was the place to be with family for movie watching
It is sad to hear that this could well be the last movie of Rajni and Last movie to be shown in Aurora.
Chennai Super King.... ku whistle podu...Rajni will b probably be the last Super King from Tollywood.
Saras... majaa aawee gayo...
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Very nice... I too have fond memories of watching movies in Aurora as my mom would drag me to see some of her fav movies. One such movie was moonram pirai and the impact lasted for a week with sleepless nights and crying for Kamal while cursing Sridevi. :-))) Jay
ReplyDeleteIts a pity that Aurora is also going to be demolished and a new structure to come up. The multiplexes will never be able to create the ambience of the single screen theatres. I mostly watched English movies at Aurora and watched the Tamil and Malayalam moviesthat used to be screened closer home at Rivoli, Shree cinema and Citylight.
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