The economics of watching a movie in a multiplex!

I ‘try’ to go by law. Hence when they asked the movie lovers to stop watching new movies on pirated VCDs and DVDs - I stopped religiously. And it is a decade I watched a new Hindi or english movie on pirated CDs. I don’t watch them in spite of me having enough sources to provide me crystal clear prints of the latest movie the very same day of the release. But recently I had this transformation of thought - whether I have been deliberately allowing myself to be fooled by these multiplexes!


Of course I love the latest cinema halls, I love the a/c, I love the digital sound effects, and there are few movies, which compulsorily have to be watched on BIG screens. I am even ready to pay double the amount of ticket’s cost for any movie just for the experience I get. But then what drives me mad is the exorbitant price of the snacks that are sold inside the building.

Good they don’t allow outside food may be they think people might dirty the hall. Or probably they want people to buy snacks available in their counters – point taken. But then why is Rs 10 MRP wala Lays cost Rs 15, why Rs 5 wala puff cost Rs 30, and why Rs 15 worth popcorn cost Rs 50?

Any public place should compulsorily provide a clean bathroom and pure drinking water free of cost (at least in India). Recently at Pasad IMAX – I found an old man searching for the bathroom and the security coolly said – the bathroom is on the 2nd floor, and the movie was shown in the ground floor! And at Satyam I found no source of free water this time, and they charge Rs 30 for 1 liter of water, which otherwise is just Rs 10.

The law says that no product should be sold above MRP price anywhere in India, and the lawyer I had met said – you can very well sue them provided you have the bill for the purchase. But who has the time?

This is just one part of the headache. The second part is the mobile phone nuisance created by the well-educated literate crowd. They have the least idea about how disturbing their mobile phones could be on their neighbour’s eyes. They either scratch their crotch or keep fiddling with their mobile phones sending and forwarding SMSs! It is not the age where only the elite have the luxury of possessing a mobile phone. Today every asshole has the later one – just imagine if all the 300 and odd people seated in the theatre either talking over the phone or sending SMSs. There will be total chaos. Then who will watch the movie in peace?

Well today my logic says – to avoid getting fooled deliberately for the snacks and to avoid nuisance created by the literates - I can very well break the law!


And Now i download movies in Torrents and see them while having Tea , Coffee , Water and all below MRP Price. Shhhhh............