We are writing this in the light of some words spoken by popular cinematographer Jomon T John recently in a media interview. He said that he felt really hurt when he saw how bad his visuals were being turned into by the age old projection system of our theaters. In fact it has been said by Alphonse Puthren also when his film Premam had released as well. Rasool Pookutty said the same about the sound system in our theaters at the time of the release of Pazhassi Raja and he said how bad he felt when the refined sound design he made for the film got unnoticed due to the bad sound projection in the theaters. But there are many other things as well which makes our theaters really unbearable and now almost many of them has become a kind of place where we get cheated or robbed.
The minimum ticket rate in our theaters has become almost 80-100 rupees everywhere and they offer us good visual experience, sound experience, good seating with air conditioned atmosphere and hygienic toilets as well. But in most of the theaters these offers only remain as offers and people get cheated here. Most of our theaters do not even provide the basic facilities for the public. The toilets are terribly unclean and polluted that one feels to vomit once he enter into the toilets of a theater. The seats inside the theaters are almost torn to pieces and many of the carries insects which causes allergy to most of the audience. They offer air conditioned atmosphere. But that is only for the first 10 minutes. When the film starts they switch off the Air Condition system and then put the fan on instead of it. What an Idea Sirjee… !!
And then when it comes to the visual and audio system it becomes worse as well. The theaters offer technology such as Dolby Digital sound clarity and great high definition visuals. But what we get is the poorest version of all that. Nowadays people are moving more to multiplexes where they at least get hygienic atmosphere and also many multiplexes having great technical quality as well. If things go like this way our single screens have to be turned into marriage auditorium or something like that as people will desert it for sure.
Now they are making merry by cheating us and robbing us and it is sure that there will be an end to all merry making by cheating others and will be a day in which they lose everything they got by cheating. But on the way they are killing our films and the industry as well.
