Globe Cinema, Movie theater on Lindsay Street, Kolkata, India
Globe Cinema is a movie theater in Kolkata operating inside a 19th-century heritage building with two separate auditoriums. The two halls run different screenings, giving the cinema a relatively flexible daily program.
The wooden opera house on Lindsay Street was established in 1827. In 1906 E. M. Cohen bought the building, then called Bijou Grand Opera House, from E. H. Ducasse, renamed it Grand Opera House and later converted it into a cinema called Globe Cinema, one of the first theatres in Calcutta to screen English films regularly.
The building began as the wooden Old Opera House of 1827, later renamed Grand Opera House, and was one of Calcutta's first halls to screen English films regularly. During World War II it entertained Allied troops stationed in the city. Reopened on 6 October 2024 as SSR Globe Cinemas for Durga Puja, it now has two screens seating 239 and 197.
Tickets can be booked online in advance, which saves time on arrival and avoids queuing at the box office. For popular Bengali or Bollywood releases, booking ahead is a good idea since those screenings tend to fill up fast.
Titanic was the last film screened at the hall in 2004, before it closed for twenty years. When SSR Cinemas reopened it as a dual-plex on 6 October 2024, for Durga Puja, Dev and Srijit Mukherji sold tickets for their film Tekka from the old ticket counter.
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