Sandhya 35mm (Chikkadpally)

Would you run a bug-infested Windows98 when you can run 1,000 upgraded bug infestations? Would you listen to an audio tape when you have an mp3 watch? Would you go to Ooty when there are folks partying on Mars? If 'yes' is what you would say to all those, please dive naked into some ice water. We need to preserve your DNA, you unnamed species.

But if you're like the rest of mankind, or any other kind that likes to eat popcorn in dark halls, then you would find Sandhya 35mm a little old-fashioned perhaps. Having said that, old-fashioned can also be classy sometimes.

In a jazz-up-Johnny mission throughout the city, theater owners have spent some major Gandhis in renovations. Somehow the trend never really impressed Sandhya 35. Their logic - why change perfection? Our logic - yuk! The way the place sometimes smells, you'd go bald in the nose. But the sound and picture quality in the hall is fairly decent. The leg space is an issue for debate, though.

Being right opposite to Bawarchi helps to drive in traffic to Sandhya 35, and so does the choice of movies playing here - the latest Telugu releases, usually given an open run. Plus, it is sitting in RTC X Roads, the Telugu movie cauldron of Hyderabad.

In all, Sandhya 35 isn't a bad place to catch a movie - it's just that there are better ones around.

Also read: Sandhya 70mm