The last film it screened was the Hollywood hit “The Fate of the Furious”, which ran well, he added. It was really a question of when we would shut down,” Kaushik said. “Had we screened the film, we would have been able to generate some revenues. The legendary theatre in central Delhi’s Paharganj, established in January 1961, was among the 65 theatres that had failed to get the right to screen “Baahubali 2”. “The plans for shutting the cinema were, however, on for a while,” he said. Kaushik said the closure was on the anvil, but “Baahubali 2” might have given the hall a temporary lease of life. We were running at a loss and it was getting difficult for us to maintain the theatre,” Shiela Cinema owner Uday Kaushik said. It faced financial losses, compounded by not being given the rights to screen “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”, which shattered records on it opening day. Baahubali, the mighty warrior, has felled a new victim – the iconic Shiela Cinema, which is the latest single-screen theatre in Delhi to shut down.įifty-six years after it was set up, Shiela downed its shutters on Friday.
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