Over half a century old Sudama to make way for multi-storey complex, Real Estate News, ET Real Estate

Nagpur, Sudama TalkiesA landmark on the Western High Court (WHC) Road for more than half a century, will soon give way to a new multi-storey building. commercial Complex. The theater opened in 1971 with a screening of the Rajesh Khanna starrer Anand, which ran for 100 days. Old timers still call it Saroj Talkies and Sudama for the younger generation.

“The old name Sudama will be retained,” said Praneet Singh, the third-generation owner of the theatre. new asset will be created by R message group And Murarka Groupwho are now on the field. R Sandesh is a company headed by Ramdev Agarwal and Dilip Agarwal. Shankar Murarka, Kishore Murarka and Brajesh Murarka are at the helm of the Murarka group.

Both the companies have a sizeable presence in the city’s real estate business and are also coming up with super premium residential projects, said a promoter.

Kishore Murarka said that the documents and other formalities have been completed and the possession will be taken by December. He said that there is a plan to start the foundation work by January.

The most prestigious project of the city is planned to come up with. He said the new complex would house leading brands along with a two screen miniplex. Murarka said that double basement parking slots would be created to deal with the paucity of space on WHC Road.
The theater was built by Singh’s grandfather RD Beohar. As a child, Singh still remembers screening Anand, which won the theater an award. He says, “In those days when a film ran for 100 consecutive days, the theaters would get awards from the producers.”

“Films starting with A are very lucky for us. Like Anand, many films like Amanush, Abhimaan ran for a long duration. There was a time when films used to run for 100 days and now a film hardly runs for a week. On the name of the new complex, he said, “Sudama was there when the theater was built and then leased to a third party for operations. He changed its name to Saroj. When we took over it in 1991, it was again renamed as Sudama.

Singh recalls that the best time for cinemas was from the 1970s to the mid-nineties as things slowly started changing after that. There is a different category of audience for single screen and multiplex. However, there has been a major change in priorities post Covid. Earlier, even an average film used to run for a week. He said, nowadays some films don’t even run that much.