Click to play videoMumbai: For employees at one theatre in Mumbai, Black Friday is not just a film, it’s a grim reminder of the day they came face to face with real tragedy.
The ticket man and usher at Mumbai's Plaza cinema, Babu Dhondu Gotad, doesn't like seeing the Black Friday posters.
It brings back the nightmares as the film, pitched as the true story of the blasts, is running at the theatre where bombs killed 10 people.
“The picture is scary. They have shown so many people dying and being injured,” says Gotad.
Like the stale popcorn at the rundown theatre, memories of the blasts had rotted a bit among the two of three people left here from 1993.
But the film has brought back the stories.
“This is where it happened. The mesh came crashing down. The wall broke. And that’s where is the seven-foot deep hole,” says Gotad.
Dattareya Pawar remembers being at the ticket counter when the roof collapsed over him from the impact of the blasts. He says memories of the blast still affect business.
“Our ticket sales are not good because people are too sacred to come for this film,” says Pawar.
Cinema can be about contemporary history it sometimes shows us things we have already experienced like in Plaza. It brings back memories that people in the theatre would rather forget. They also realise, that not much has changed and their cause of fear could well return.
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