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The once ubiquitous white backlit boards with black letters at movie theaters that announced the show timings and other details of the films showing are fading away. The announcement of movie show timings on mobile devices, "glossy movie posters, life-size cut-outs and other publicity material” have led to the decline of these ‘readographs,’ according to a report in The Indian Express of March 3, 2017.  "Only a handful (of theaters) continue to maintain them, including Regal (pictured), Sterling and Liberty in South Bombay and Chitra in Dadar,” continues the report, while Metro and New Excelsior have done away with these......



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