{"id":13022,"date":"2013-08-12T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2013-08-12T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:35:22","slug":"are-theatres-ripping-off-movies-goers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/are-theatres-ripping-off-movies-goers\/","title":{"rendered":"Are theatres ripping off movies-goers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If reports are to be believed, some theatres in the \u2018<strong>Gold rated category<\/strong>\u2019 are proposing to hike the ticket rates substantially, owing to disparity in profit share compared to<strong> Platinum rated<\/strong> theatres.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, movie-goers are not at all happy with the facilities offered by these theatres. They also have to bear with certain undesirable practices from the theatres. For instance, if you reach the theatres<strong> 30 minutes<\/strong> before the show time you are forced to shell out Reservation charges also. As per the rules, the reservation must be closed <strong>1 hour<\/strong> before the show. That\u2019s not all, after standing in a queue and obtaining the reservation ticket from the front counter, you again have to repeat the process at the cafeteria near the balcony. But there is no arguing with the theatre owners. If you dare to question this unfair practice, the theatre employees will behave rudely to you.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13030\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13030\" class=\" wp-image-13030\" title=\"sl theatres ticket arun kukku\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/08\/sl-theatres-ticket-arun-kukku1-572x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/sl-theatres-ticket-arun-kukku1-572x513.jpg 572w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/sl-theatres-ticket-arun-kukku1.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Arun Kukku<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the cafeteria too, you are sure to be swindled when you buy the snacks and beverages, because they <strong>charge more than the MRP<\/strong>. The whole attitude of the theatres is that, if you want to watch the movies shown by them you should be prepared to suffer in silence all these unfair practices.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the facilities inside the theatres, less said is better. The condition of the seats, working of A\/C, cleanliness inside as well as in the toilets leaves much to be desired. The sound and picture presentation system are not up to the mark either.<\/p>\n<p>After treating the movie-goers so shabbily, what right have they to hike the ticket rates? Hope that Trivandrum Corporation takes note of these before acceding to the request of the theatre owners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your take on the issue? Also share any bad movie-going experience you had in the theatres.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If reports are to be believed, some theatres in the \u2018Gold rated category\u2019 are proposing to hike the ticket rates substantially, owing to disparity in profit share compared to Platinum rated theatres. As it is, movie-goers are not at all happy with the facilities offered by these theatres. They also have to bear with certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}