

We take all the necessary precautions and make people sit alternately. Nothing else is really working in the other shows of Maratha Mandir, so we are surviving only on this one show. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajols iconic “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge” was taken down by Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir on Thursday, after the movie. On a daily basis, we get an occupancy of around 200 to 300 people (total theatre capacity of 1100). “We started screening Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge again in Maratha Mandir from November. It was also the film that catapulted Shahrukh Khan to Bollywood superstardom, and it was the first of several successful pairings of Khan and Kajol. Manoj Desai, Executive Director of G7 Multiplex & Marathi Mandir told Pinkvilla that they register an occupancy of 200 to 300 people every day even now for the 11:30 am show. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Brave Heart Will Take the Bride) was a huge hit in India, and won all the major Filmfare Awards. The theater still manages to get approximate 40-50 seat occupancy on holidays & weekends. However, most of them have been struggling to bring back the audience to the big screens.ĭDLJ still manages to attract loyal viewers. It has been the longest running film in the history of Indian cinema. The interiors of the movie hall have sculptures of banner logos of top film production companies. Anand bought this sprawling property in the early 50s and turned it into a theatre. The Maharashtra government granted permission for 50 per cent seating in cinema halls. One of the iconic old theatres in Mumbai, Naaz Cinema is located on Lamington Road right next to the Imperial Cinema. Theatre owners have now resumed showing the film from November 2020, after cinemas were allowed to reopen. DDLJ Completes 23-Year Run At Maratha Mandir In Mumbai The 1995 film starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol has crossed more than 1200 weeks at the single-theatre ciname Maratha Mandir in Mumbai. Mumbai's Maratha Mandir cinema showed Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Bollywood's definitive romance, for the very last time on Februweeks - almost 20 years - after it began playing on. The romantic drama starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol that released in 1995 has had a record-making run at the theatre. For the first time in over 25 years of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’s run in Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema, screening had to be stopped due to the pandemic.
