In July 2023, Bollywood Hungama was the first one to report that Mumbai’s Eros Cinema will soon be reopened in a new avatar, with an IMAX screen. There were murmurs last month that the theatre will commence operations with Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, which was released on December 21, 2023. Then came speculations that the theatre might open in either January or February 2024. It has now come to light that Eros Cinema IMAX, managed by PVR Inox, will be thrown open to moviegoers on the occasion of Republic Day, that is, Friday, January 26. The first film which will be played at this iconic theatre is Fighter. Starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, this aerial action thriller released in cinemas today.
At 9:29 pm on January 24, Preetham Daniel, VP Sales, India and South East Asia, IMAX Corporation, tweeted from his X account, “One of the ICONIC cinemas in India is the EROS theatre in Mumbai. PVRINOX will opening an IMAX at this iconic cinema on 26th Jan. Republic Day opening was the best date to open! (sic)”
Eros Cinema is located a stone’s throw away from Mumbai’s Churchgate railway station and hence, is well-connected to the rest of the city. It was earlier a single screen and it shut down in 2017 due to poor ticket sales and competition from multiplexes. In 2018, there were reports that it would reopen as a 300-seater cinema hall on the first floor in the place of the balcony and a department store on the ground floor. The original Eros cinema had a capacity of 1204 seats. A portion of the popular song ‘Tum Jo Aaye Zindagi Mein’, featuring Ajay Devgn and Kangana Ranaut, from Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai (2010) was shot in Eros cinema.
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