Last cinema in Feni demolished

FENI, Feb 20 (UNB): With demolishing the district town's last movie theater, Feni now has no cinema left.
Dulal Cinema Hall, Feni town's last remaining movie theater, was demolished last Wednesday due to decline in the number of audiences. A multi-storey shopping mall will be built on the site where the cinema stood.
Safiuddin Belal, owner of Dulal Cinema Hall, said, "We had to seek assistance from law enforcement to tackle the crowd during screening of blockbusters such as 'Beder Meye Josna' and 'Rupban'."
"However, the number of audiences started declining after 2015," Belal told the news agency.
The cinema hall had eight "VIP" seats (tickets for each cost Tk 100). It also had 80 "first-class" seats (Tk 60 each).
Belal said that "second" and "third-class" seats had been discontinued for the past three years.
There were six movie theaters in the town and the adjacent Dagonbhuiya upazila. One after another, curtains fell on Feni district's silver screens as the owners were left with no choice but to demolish them.
The lack of quality films, coupled with the steep decline in audience, killed the town's cinema business.
The four cinema halls in Feni town were Dulal Cinema Hall, Surat Mahal, Bilashi Cinema Hall, and Kanan Cinema Hall. There were two other cinema halls - Beauty Cinema Hall in Fulghazi upazila and Jharna Cinema Hall in Dagonbhuiyan.
Thousands of movie lovers from the district's remote areas used to flock to these halls to see films with their families and friends.