We hear the death knell for Old Delhi’s
iconic and nearly 100-year-old Parsi cinema hall
Rusi Sorabji
Nearly two months ago the Delhi edition of The Times of India reported that Novelty cinema, one of the city’s oldest movie theaters which has not been in use for almost a decade, will make way for a novel "Spice Mall of Asia.”
Established in the early or mid-1920s, the Novelty theater was originally owned and/or managed by Madan and Company of Calcutta. It was then referred to as "Byes-Scope” by the locals. Should the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) wrecking ball get delayed by a few more years, this ‘silent movie theater’ would soon be a hundred years old.
Jamshedji Framji......