Bengalooru...whats with you?

Last night my husband's friends had come over for dinner. This couple work in the same organisation as my husband. They are based in bangalore and are here in UK for project. So me and my husband were inquisitive about the present status of bangalore and were happy to hear that the express highway is coming up well, the flyover from banargatta road to the e.city has been opened which has reduced the traffic on silk board junction. But the news that kind of took me aback was about the small theatres closing down. To our shock, the symphony in MG rd is closed and Rex is going to be closed soon. The reason being the slump in business because of the multiplexes. With Forum,garuda mall's multiplex grabbing the market share of the theatre industry in bangalore, the small ones are unable to sustain the competition so they end up closong down and selling the place for yet another mall to come up or a multi plex to open. But my question is, can every bangalorean afford to go to PVR paying rs.180 per ticket. Agreed that the city is cosmopolitan and people have fancy jobs but are we running entertainment and recreation only for the upper class section. Are'nt they depriving the middle class and the poor section of people from India's most popular mode of entertainment, the movies. Is there nothing as consideration for the people who have always lived in bangalore, growing up watching kannada movies in these small theatres. Are'nt they the people who made bangalore. Are they responsible for the city to become so busy that it fails to recognise its own people, people who nurtured it from the begining. Is bengalooru becoming selfish.