History
By the 1940s there were about seven or eight cinema houses in Old Delhi. "People called them 'bioscope'. The more proletarian members of society called them mandwa," according to a 2002 article in Seminar, a monthly journal in Delhi. "For some reason, the old picture halls were hardly ever called by their proper names — the Ritz, the Novelty or Kumar Talkies (which incidentally still stands in Chandni Chowk and has recently been renovated). Instead, they were known by the area in which they were situated. So Kumar Talkies was patharwala and Jagat was machliwala". Movies were advertised by men pushing hoardings (billboards) on wheels down the city streets. "Unknown in those days, M.F. Husain could be seen painting movie hoardings on Esplanade Road."
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