Aurora from MGR to Rajni

I am not too sure whether my excitement is to see the movie Kabali or to see any 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 12 noon the classic and serioust flick of Madhu/Prem Nazir / Sathyen will be shown.

For a SIES student from tamil division, I always used to wonder why is that Malayalam movies have the same cast movie after movie. It was like a family of 15 odd people moving around as a troupe to act in some 100 movies.

At first sound of the bell,there will be a frenzy 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. An Old lady will have 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 and whistles 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 the last movie to be shown in Aurora. Chennai Super King.... ku whistle podu...Rajni will b probably be the last Super King from Tollywood.