Chennai Canvas: Madras Week Episode 4 | How cinema became part of Chennai

Cinema is woven into the cloth of Chennai’s taste memory. From romance, longing and movie-inspired moments connected the city’s beaches to the melodramatic displacement from celluloid reels to integer projection, Chennai’s narration with the large surface has perpetually evolved. At the bosom of that travel are theatres that became landmarks successful their ain right, including Royapettah’s Pilot Theatre. Episode 4 of Chennai Canvas, for Madras Week, revisits these spaces, memories and technological changes to research why, for generations of Chennai residents, the metropolis and cinema person been inseparable.