Bhubaneswar: When the country is witnessing an intense blame battle between star actor Allu Arjun and the Hyderabad police over death of a 35 YO woman at Sandhya Theatres, it is high time to know why the iconic star chose to visit the theatre located at Chikkadapalli in Hyderabad?
As per data available with idle brain, Sandhya 70 MM A/C is among the best theatres in Telangana and is the first theatre built in that complex. Sandhya Theatres is founded and inaugurated by M Chandraiah in 1980. The Theatre was founded by M Chandraiah and was given on lease to one Avula Sundara Rao
And Hindi movie 'Shaalimar' is the first movie that was screened at this theatre and Sholay was the second movie to be screened at the theatre.
WHO IS M CHANDRAIAH?
Chandraiah is a well known person in the AP film Exhibitor council and also a film distributor and producer. He owns 8 theatres in Andhra Pradesh-Telangana.
.Moreover, this theatre has a prestigious Dolby Digital Surround Ex sound system installed and had excellent sound effects. This has a Xenon lab projection and it is unique of its kind.
Sandhya 70MM A/C theatre capacity was reduced to 1323 from 1489 to facilitate more comfort to the moviegoers and introduced luxurious couple seats during its recent renovation.
WHY ALLU ARJUN VISITED?
The significance of the theatre lies in the fact that it has given big box office numbers for many lead stars in Tollywood.
As the buzz goes, Sandhya 70MM is lucky mascot for Pawan Kalyan – the power star of Tollywood and now Dy CM of Andhra Pradesh.
All Pawan Kalyan movies had record breaking collections at Sandhya group of theatres.
- Pawan Kalyan’s Khushi collected a grand share of Rs 1 crore at Sandhya 70MM for its 160 days run.
- Incidentally, this is the second highest share in any single theatre in Andhra Pradesh after Nuvve Kavali at Odeon 70MM .
- Pawan Kalyan's Toliprema is another big hit movie at Sandhya 70MM and it ran for record breaking 227 days.
- Chiranjeevi movie Master had a great run at Sandhya Theatres and it ran with worth houseful for 75 days and DCR fulls for 100 days. This is the only 100 day's houseful movie at Hyderabad.
- Chiranjeevi's Gharana Mogudu also had silver jubilee run at this theatre.
- Nagarjuna’s hit movie Shivamani had a 32 lakh share at Sandhya theatre for 100 days and
- Jr NTR block buster movie Simhadri had a 30 lakhs share for 100 days.
- Mahesh babu's movie Arjun had a 30 lakh share.
- Old classical movie Devadasu was re-released during 1984 and had a successful 100 days as noon shows.
- Kanyasulkam and Keelugurram also ran for 100 days as noon shows at this theatre.
Following is the list of movies having Silver Jubilee at the theatre
- Toliprema -227 days
- Gharana Mogudu - 183 days
- Bobbili brahmanna - 175 days
- Mundadugu - 175 days
- Hanuman Junction - 175 days
The above rate of return tollywood stars across the genre has availed from the theatre shows that star actor Allu Arjun too considered visiting the theatre on release day important, from the box office point view.
