We wanted to catch a movie , and not being much of a Multiplex fan and still believing that some of our Hyderabad city's older theaters still make for a pleasure filled evening, I landed up at Anand Theatre, Begumpet. But I was to be proved wrong.
These theater owners played spoil sport and ruined a lovely Sunday evening. We rushed to the theater at 8:15 pm, to able to pick up tickets in time. But to our disappointment and about 100 others, the ticket counter did not open up till about 15 minutes before the show. Hyderabadi Standard Time, I may wonder???
Standing aimlesssly staring at the open sky for 45 minutes, with chaos prevailing around you was a pointless affair and not the greatest way to spend time. Added to this, not knowing whether we even would get the tickets! Why can't they open the ticket counter atleast half an hour before?????Are they trying to send the message that, since we have anyway come for the movie, we should be forced to wait outside, begging for the man at the ticket counter to show up? And to top that, even though the guy at the ticket counter showed up finally, just 5 mins after the distribution he had a nature's call to attend to. And there we were again, waiting at his mercy to come back and continue the sale of tickets.
When we made some hue and cry about this, the manager instead of showing us some Hyderabadi hospitality that we are famous for, was screaming at the top of his voice in front of the crowd. He said he did not invite us to any "daawat", and also that he was selling tickets right, it's not as IF he was not selling?? Ya right!
Is it important for him or us, I ask, that his theatre runs and he is able to sell tickets.
We still require some professionalism in what we want to call the city of IT professionals!!!
These theater owners played spoil sport and ruined a lovely Sunday evening. We rushed to the theater at 8:15 pm, to able to pick up tickets in time. But to our disappointment and about 100 others, the ticket counter did not open up till about 15 minutes before the show. Hyderabadi Standard Time, I may wonder???
Standing aimlesssly staring at the open sky for 45 minutes, with chaos prevailing around you was a pointless affair and not the greatest way to spend time. Added to this, not knowing whether we even would get the tickets! Why can't they open the ticket counter atleast half an hour before?????Are they trying to send the message that, since we have anyway come for the movie, we should be forced to wait outside, begging for the man at the ticket counter to show up? And to top that, even though the guy at the ticket counter showed up finally, just 5 mins after the distribution he had a nature's call to attend to. And there we were again, waiting at his mercy to come back and continue the sale of tickets.
When we made some hue and cry about this, the manager instead of showing us some Hyderabadi hospitality that we are famous for, was screaming at the top of his voice in front of the crowd. He said he did not invite us to any "daawat", and also that he was selling tickets right, it's not as IF he was not selling?? Ya right!
Is it important for him or us, I ask, that his theatre runs and he is able to sell tickets.
We still require some professionalism in what we want to call the city of IT professionals!!!
Hmm, at least now you will be back to being a multiplex fan! :) Long gone are those days where we need to stand in a line for a tickets! Use internet & enjoy!
ReplyDelete@Ravi - Hehe you are right! It was probably my expectations from them that ruined the day! But there is always room for improvement.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine tujhe kitna gussa aaya hoga...batane ke liye koi nahi mila tho blog likhdala?? :)
ReplyDeleteyou shud have looked around and you would have definitely found a person selling tickets in black. ;)
ReplyDeleteThere were only few occasions when i was able to get ticket from ticket counter..but during those occasions i have leave the hall during the interval because the movie was total bundle!!