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The horrible "Movie Watching Experience" this weekend

It's long time since I went to a movie hall to watch a movie. The comfort and convenient cable TV, CD and DVD movies have changed the habit of waiting in a queue for a movie ticket, first-shows & late-night shows a long time ago. But the release of a new tamil movie "Kanthasamy" and the reviews made me decide on "going-back to cinema hall" for the weekend. I clicked through the BookMyShow website and could book a ticket and choose my seats too, easily! I chose the A-row for my kids to watch it from the middle seats, without hindernace.

Alas, I reach URVASHI THEATER near Lal-bagh today only to find that the seat number A-32 is near a pillar and hence will not bend backwards, like the other seats will. I was disappointed and had to settle with the uncomfortable straight-seat posture! To add to that, the airconditioning was pathetic at this cinema hall that I eneded up with head-ache, in spite of an interesting movie. These guys charge a good amount of money for each seat and mean-minded to save that extra-bucks through switching-off the AC.

There is always a big hue&cry and about the illegal DVD rackets and how they affect these cinema hall business. Certainly it will! I will never go back to Urvashi Theater in Lal-bagh road for a movie. If these cheap businessmen don't realize the need for customer-satisfaction, they will soon have to demolish the cinema halls and sell the place for a super-mall or supermart!

And I am seriously thinking about going to a consumer forum and ask for the money back + a good pain-balm for my breaking head!!!

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