Cinema Under A Bridge Provides Bollywood Escape For The Poor In Delhi
by The Daily Eye Team June 15 2016, 10:23 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 23 secsA makeshift cinema hall under a 140-year-old bridge in the Indian capital is allowing poor rickshaw pullers and migrant labourers to escape daily hardship and sweltering heat into a world of Bollywood song, dance and romance. With the rusty iron floor of the bridge as its ceiling and some old rags acquired on the cheap from a nearby crematorium serving as curtains and floor mats, the cinema shows four films a day.