The Eros Cinema story brings to mind an incident from when we were young. The ticket cost Rs. 6, not $6 then. Watching "First Day First Show" was the big craze. After fighting the queue, and failing to get tickets, we were forced to buy tickets from scalpers ("black ticket"). We ended up spending every last paisa we had on the tickets and did not have money to get back home. Then we had to beg for money from strangers in the bus stand, lying about having had our pockets picked! This being India, it turned out that begging in English was more lucrative than begging in Tamil! Strange as it may seem, those were good days.
I heard scalping tickets was actually a mob activity in the past. Your take is wonderful. The role movies play in india goes way beyond the movies themselves
The Eros Cinema story brings to mind an incident from when we were young. The ticket cost Rs. 6, not $6 then. Watching "First Day First Show" was the big craze. After fighting the queue, and failing to get tickets, we were forced to buy tickets from scalpers ("black ticket"). We ended up spending every last paisa we had on the tickets and did not have money to get back home. Then we had to beg for money from strangers in the bus stand, lying about having had our pockets picked! This being India, it turned out that begging in English was more lucrative than begging in Tamil! Strange as it may seem, those were good days.
I heard scalping tickets was actually a mob activity in the past. Your take is wonderful. The role movies play in india goes way beyond the movies themselves