With seating capacity of 600 people, hardly any heads are seen now. Royal Talkies, Grant Road : Before it started screening Bollywood movies in 1930’s, Since it started in 1911, Royal theatre was known to show small documentaries shot and stage plays during Old Mumbai days.
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This theater is old yet cannot be said outdated as DDLJ is still featured in Rs.25 and weekends are filled now also. The very first movie to get premièred here was Sunil Dutt’s Sadhna. Till date the ticket cost at Maratha Mandir is like Rs.25, Rs.35 and below Rs.100. And who will forget that royal entrance of legendary actor Dilip Kumar riding on Horse and theatre location filled with Elephants on premier day of the royal film ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ which kept running for next 6 years since 1960, Wow. Maratha Mandir at Mumbai Central : DDLJ ( Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge ) movie is the first thing that comes in and when we get the name of this one of the very old theatres located at Mumbai Central East.
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Below are list of such theatres in South Mumbai locations like Grant Road, Mumbai Central and Opera House. That is the entertainment in those talkies now a days for survival. Almost all of these cinema house features Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu films, some times those old Bollywood hits too and some and most of them also show semi-adult movies that attracts the labour class, beggars at cost of Rs.25 and somewhere around. So what about those old theatres now, Are they closed ? and the answer is no the show still goes on, But now its nothing latest of those movies so more, rarely one can find new movies released and be screened in the list of old talkies of Mumbai as listed below. The then called Talkies use to be jammed packed with people watching 2 to 3 shows continuously of movie goes hit, That golden era of Indian cinema turned from Black and white to Colour and so the old theatres were dilapidated and the new trend of multiplex arise in starting years of 2000 when chains like Big Cinema, Cinemax, Fame and Broadway are leading the talkies industries. The era when Rajesh Khanna, Jitendra like actors rocked and Amitabh Bachchan Zanzeer released in cinema theatres of south Mumbai locations like Grant Road, Opera House and Mumbai Central was to be seen, These old theatres then had ticket costing Rs.1 and Rs 2.50.