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Jyoti Cinema

Jyoti Cinema, Movie theater in Dharmatala, Kolkata, India

Jyoti Cinema is a single-screen movie theatre on Lenin Sarani in Kolkata, founded in the mid-1930s. The hall screened Hindi and English Hollywood films and drew steady audiences with its comfortable seating, good screen quality and stereophonic sound. It closed in 2008; the ground floor now holds a distribution office and the second floor a finance company.

Jyoti Cinema opened in the mid-1930s on Lenin Sarani and drew steady audiences with comfortable seating, good screen quality and stereophonic sound. In the 1970s it caused a sensation by screening 70mm films, alongside regular Hindi and Hollywood releases. Mounting losses led its owners, Dutta and Mansatta, to close the hall in 2008; B.K. Sethi bought the closed premises in 2010.

The hall's name, Jyoti, means light in Bengali, and the cinema showed Hindi films and English Hollywood releases regularly. Its draw was comfortable seating, good screen quality and stereophonic sound, which kept a steady audience coming to Lenin Sarani.

The location sits on Lenin Sarani in the Dharmatala area and is accessible by local transport. The building now houses offices and is not open to visitors as a cinema.

The 10,000 sq ft hall was bought in 2010 by B.K. Sethi, who said single-screen cinemas were closing fast and the space was too small for a mall or multiplex, with parking also a problem. By July 2012 a distribution office run by Sethi and B.K. Khanna sat on the ground floor and a finance company on the second.

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