Shree Nagaraja theatre winds up

Shree Nagaraja theatre located on the junction of Kabir Road and Benki Nawab Street in Mandi Mohalla has turn out to be the most recent single-screen theatre within the metropolis to wind up operations.

It had attracted film-goers for a number of a long time by screening newest Hindi and Kannada hit movies, in addition to English and different language motion pictures additionally.

The 650-seater had not screened any film for greater than a yr now since COVID-19 lockdown was declared in March 2020. Rajaram, Secretary of Mysuru Theatre Owners Association, informed Shree Nagaraja will not display screen any motion pictures and the theatre house owners had put the constructing up on the market.

Shree Nagaraja’s closure follows the closure of Shantala Talkies on Narayana Shastri Road in K.R. Mohalla final yr.

Shree Nagaraja turns into the tenth single-screen theatre to wind up operations in Mysuru in the previous few years. Out of the 21 theatres, which had been screening motion pictures within the early nineties, solely 11 are remaining within the metropolis right now, Mr. Rajaram mentioned.

Ganesh, Ratna and Vidyaranyawere among the many first to shut operations within the nineties.

The different single-screen theatres which stay solely in reminiscence embody Ranjit, Opera, Chamundeshwari, Sreenand, and Olympia.

Sources within the theatre enterprise in Mysuru mentioned three extra theatres in Mysuru had been up on the market. “Though the three are presently screening movies, they will stop doing so if buyers come forward”, mentioned the supply.

Meanwhile, Mr. Rajaram, who owns Gayathri theatre on Chamaraja Double Road, mentioned the taxes had been too heavy for theatre house owners to profitably run their companies. Contending that the property tax alone for Shree Nagaraja was greater than ₹1.2 lakh every year, in addition to commerce licence, which prices one other ₹20,000 to ₹25,000, Mr. Rajaram mentioned theatre house owners would like to promote their properties and plough the returns on another enterprise.

While closure of single-screen theatres is taken into account an enormous loss to the cinegoers within the metropolis, multiplexes had come up in several malls. Even although the capability of a multiplex could also be greater, the seating capability in every display screen of the multiplex will probably be lesser than single-screen theatres, Mr. Rajaram mentioned.