{"id":22293,"date":"2015-01-29T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2015-01-29T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:59:37","slug":"5-screen-in-the-city-to-get-a-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/5-screen-in-the-city-to-get-a-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Screen in the city to get a price hike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the moviegoers in the city, watching a movie in the theatre will get dearer in the coming days. City Corporation council has cleared an application submitted by two theatre groups to raise balcony ticket charge to <strong>Rs.100<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was submitted by Kerala State Film Development Corporation (KSFDC) (Kairali, Nila and Sree) and the management of Sreepadmanabha and Devipriya theatres. The management in their application said that it had become necessary to raise the charges considering the increase in expenses in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Though the KSFDC asked for an increase by Rs.30 in their theatres the Corporation sanctioned a raise of only <strong>Rs.20<\/strong>. Meanwhile at Sreepadmanabha and Devipriya, the management sought an increase of only <strong>Rs10<\/strong>. At present the ticket rate here is Rs90.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout five years back, we needed to think only about the electricity charges. But now, even the cleaning expenses have increased. After every show, at least six people have to clean the hall. If the waste, especially food, remains for long, rodents could come in. To maintain the quality of the multiplex, all these are important factors,\u201d said Gireesh Chandran, Managing Director of Sreepadmanabha to The Hindu.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from regular cleaning, the theatre hires a private company to clean the seats every three months at a cost of Rs35 per seat. However, the theatre authorities said that the collections have increased post-renovation as people come back for the viewing experience.<\/p>\n<p>KSFDC owned theatres and Sreepadmanabha were the first among the old theatres in the city to go in for renovation a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So would you pay more for a better movie viewing experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the moviegoers in the city, watching a movie in the theatre will get dearer in the coming days. City Corporation council has cleared an application submitted by two theatre groups to raise balcony ticket charge to Rs.100. The proposal was submitted by Kerala State Film Development Corporation (KSFDC) (Kairali, Nila and Sree) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-22293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293"}],"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=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}