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**Lt_Apple** · 12-15-2006, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by bulb_mani Ila bingle thaniya theatre katanunmna inum total cost adhigama irukum... adhuku multiplex with 6-7 screens katina 2 would do :P ... moreover many movies r getting released which affects even good movies

it involves a lot of cost mani ....
screens mattum vishayam illai ..... the stereo, the cost of digitalizing the whole cinema stuff, then investing on the furniture to fit the world standards, also a theater cannot handle more than say 170 ppl ... so lot of things ...
only venture capitalists who are new could afford ... existing theater owners ... not everybody can afford ! yeah, thats why have VCs... to get the investment back soon, the ticket prices willl be high around the 150 rs mark.... but these days, we pay 150 or 200 rs in a B centre theatre like vetri or vidya to watch FDFS in black.. so athukku we can watch in multiplex for the same rate with higer quality...

12-15-2006, 06:20 PM	#18
Lt_Apple Join Date Dec 2008 Posts 4,489 Senior Member	Originally Posted by bulb_mani Ila bingle thaniya theatre katanunmna inum total cost adhigama irukum... adhuku multiplex with 6-7 screens katina 2 would do :P ... moreover many movies r getting released which affects even good movies it involves a lot of cost mani .... screens mattum vishayam illai ..... the stereo, the cost of digitalizing the whole cinema stuff, then investing on the furniture to fit the world standards, also a theater cannot handle more than say 170 ppl ... so lot of things ... only venture capitalists who are new could afford ... existing theater owners ... not everybody can afford ! yeah, thats why have VCs... to get the investment back soon, the ticket prices willl be high around the 150 rs mark.... but these days, we pay 150 or 200 rs in a B centre theatre like vetri or vidya to watch FDFS in black.. so athukku we can watch in multiplex for the same rate with higer quality...
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