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India’s vanishing picture palaces: Cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi on the death of single-screen cinemas

January 24, 2026 10:54 am

An exhibition on the vanishing single-screen theatres revisits collective memories and the lost intensity of mindful viewing

Jumna Talkies, now abandoned, in the city of Haridwar. (Photo: Hemant Chaturvedi)

The death of single-screen theatres in India: Over 20,000 shut down in 3 decades, last 5,500 fight for survival

June 05, 2024 8:19 am

According to a research done by former cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi, in the 1990s, India had about 25,000 single screen theaters, which are now reduced to around 6000, or even lesser. Their future looks dark as well.

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Pictures from 17 states tell a thousand stories of single-screen cinema theatres

January 15, 2024 7:47 am

Since 2019, Photographer Hemant Chaturvedi has shot around 1,045 theatres. At present, 32 of these photographs are exhibited at the Kala Ghoda Café in South Mumbai as part of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, where one may also find Chaturvedi explaining to enthusiasts what his project means.

Indian films fare better in China as number of local theatres have declined in 5 years: I&B secretary

September 27, 2022 4:51 pm

Apurva Chandra, Secretary in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the number of theatres in India has declined to 8,000 from about 12,000 five-six years ago, while the same period saw the number of film exhibition halls in China jumping to nearly 70,000 from 10,000.

Already struggling, now battered by lockdown, single screen theatres are not ready to call it curtains yet

January 26, 2021 12:55 am

Four owners from different parts of India tell us what it takes to run a single screen cinema hall in the age of the pandemic.

Dying single screens take a toll on tax collection

April 11, 2014 4:55 pm

4 districts Washim,Hingoli,Buldhana & Amravati report drop

Single screen owners on a week-long strike

March 25, 2011 2:39 pm

Protesting against the heavy entertainment tax in Maharashtra,the single screen theaters decide to go on a week-long strike from March 25.

Maharashtra single screens down shutters in protest

March 18, 2011 1:56 pm

All single screen theatres here are going to be shut till March 31,to protest against high entertainment tax.

In celluloid

November 29, 2009 4:23 am

If Salman Khan is menacingly swishing his dagger in the poster of Bandan playing at Alfred Theatre,then in the nearby Shalimar Theatre,Akshay Kumar has moved with the times and is warding off the evil forces with a hyper cool,silver pistol in Saugandh.