Jofin James, the director of Navabharath IAS academy, Kannur had posted a status on his Facebook page about an incident which sheds light to a kind of day robbery that is happening in our multiplexes now a days. He says that he and his friend Ajmal went to see the film named Ennu Ninte Moideen in PVR multiplex in Lulu Mall Ernakulam. The ticket charge was 140 rupees per person and when they try to enter the cinema hall, the security there started checking in a way that it questions the individuality of the person being checked. While checking he found a bottle of mineral water bottle of 1 liter and he said they did not allow them to take that bottle inside. They said that its only pure water and for drinking purpose but he not allowed it at all.
They thought that it will be a waste of time to argue with him and thought that they can buy one bottle for 20 odd rupees at the interval time. And in the time of interval when they went buy a bottle of water from the shop there they said that it will cost 40 rupees per half liter. They are selling the water made by the company TATA. The 1 liter bottle as per the charge will cost 80 rupees per bottle. It was startling that 1 liter of water costs more than 1 liter of petrol and it was really an example of day robbery from public. The ticket cost 280 rupees and if a person want to some water that will also cost him 80 rupees.
According to the verdict of our honorable supreme court in 2015 September the Drinking water must available for the movie goers if they don’t allow to carry water with them of their own in multiplexes or cinema halls. The court verdict also made it compulsory that every cinema halls will provide pure water free of cost to the people comes there as water is the basic human need for his life.
But our multiplexes and cinema halls not seems to be in a mood to obey the law of our nation and they are plundering us in open. This has to get changed and the responsible authorities have to intervene in this matter as well.
