On the 12th of January, 1961 Hilu's parents saw a second show film in this very hall and then proceeded to Cuttack Medical College (see "Cuttack the rebuttal"). Today Hind talkies is in the ICU and almost seems to be crying for attention. I hope somebody nurses it back to its old glory. On the ground floor there is a cheap outlet for dress materials and nothing else.I personally saw one film during my childhood in this hall- Dev Anand's Janemaan when it came to the city the second time. Even during the seventies this hall was on the decline. I think the Oriya film " Gopo heley bhee sato" was released in this hall and did reasonably well.
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Since its for me! I might have seen a few more but do rmbr. seeing "Do Jhooth" (Mousumi and Jeetendra) at Hind.
Looks so non-descript now. They all do (the cinema halls i.e.) after "retirement".
Arun, I rmbr. a line from another post of yours "the eyes can never see what the heart does". So during its heydays, these cinema halls acted as portals, as soon as you parked your bicycle, got off a rickshaw, grabbed the tickets and entered thru the double-doors, transforming you into the world of celluloid fantasy in a jiffy.
All,
You must rmbr. the experience of being shown your seat(s), a guy waving his flashlight (torch), while looking at your tickets, in the general direction ;-) I for one, never got it right the 1st. time :-(
Nice pic, Arun! I wonder how we used to cram into such small halls those days!
A headache was inevitable for me if I ever ventured for a matinee show.
Hind Talkies was owned by one Mr Dayakar those days. Our acquaintance with him ensured that we got tickets for any show. But even then, I hardly visited that theatre two or three times: we viewed it as an 'archaic' hall even in those days, when compared to new halls like Grand and Suraj.
hilu
you are right about the seats. we were too eager to sit down somewhere so that we did not miss the slides, the ads and the radio news reel
Venu
The heaadaches were probably because of the acoustics because these days the multiplex theaters are much smaller. however suraj talkies was preferable (other than grand ofcourse) as it was almost at a walking distance from my house and though it did not have a balcony at least it was a very long theater.
Hi Arun & Omkar,
I,m a native of cuttack---Sutahat,to be precise. Orissa for outsiders was contained in Puri & Ctc.--kind of synonymous--The glory of the place ison the wane. Iwas ther for christmas and coincidently i saw the pitiable state of Hind cinema hall--it is on the other end of the city from y parents' place--sad that these identity icons are graduallystripped of their relevance---agreed these are no heritage sites ,but they have myraids of connotations for the Katki.
Capital Cinema with its mouth watering fare of piaaji ,bara, bigoni and other mouth watering goodies has been demolished and in its place is a nondescript apartment. All the landmarks have been either mutilated, defaced or demolished--bowing dwn before a more practical,commercial & totally utilitarian world that has long since stopped bothering with aesthetics.,but Ctc can boast of a social life that is warm and a far cry from the superficialities and emotional poverty of metros--Out of the squalor and filth springs the warmth and affability of the place---a la lotus!!!(senti. stuff) excuse me , this is a badly written eulogy for my HOMETOWN CUTTACK--will Arun or Alpana step in and bail me out with a better written piece---Please !!!!
Et tu Sarita?
I always thought u were from BAM.
Kidding! Actually, I wondered if u were ever from BAM. Rmbr. my references to Kotki girls? ;-)
at this rate vimal will have to change his blog address as svcbamkotok.blogspot.com!!!!!!!
No way, AB... I am a pucca Berhampuria! Nothing against CTC though...
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