Then and now: A movie palace fit for an emperor
By Frank Chemaly
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Todayâs old picture features the Shah Jehan cinema on the corner of Grey and Lorne streets, (today Dr Yusuf Dadoo and Ismail C Meer) which was once Durbanâs largest.
The picture was taken in the 2 400-seater cinemaâs heyday, probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
The movie billed is probably the 1965 film
Shaheed, a biography of one of India s greatest patriots Sardar Bhagat Singh, directed by S Ram Sharma and starring Kamini Kaushal, Nirupa Roy, and Anand Kumar. It could also have been a rerun of the 1948 Bollywood rom com
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