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Partners in action at cinemas

That most of the cinema theatres in the city are infested with rats, cockroaches and assorted creepy crawlies is something every movie lover has at the back of his mind even as he is cheering his hero along.

Newspaper offices sometimes get calls from people who say they have had rats run over their legs just as the plot on screen was thickening. Others speak of whole colonies of ants rising as one to protest the ‘intrusion’ into their meal tim e.

What many cinema lovers are hesitant to acknowledge though is the role they themselves play in making theatres dirty; all the popcorn, potato chips, ice-cream and hot coffee finally translates to staggering amounts of plastic and debris inside cinema halls.

There are those who argue that ‘awareness’ just won’t work in this case. What is needed, according to such folks, is a total ban on carrying food items inside cinema halls.

G. Mahadevan

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