R Odeon Cinemax Ghatkopar East Wednesday Dhamaka Rs 50/- any show , Movie

The Cinemax theater at Ghatkopar (R Odeon) has done a good marketing move, their Wednesdays Dhamaka offer is a real winner, where moviegoers can pay only Rs 50/- and watch any movie / show timing .

This is real steal considering that avg show charges are Rs 120/- and above as the show timing progress into the evenings. Now with this offer the theater is doing brisk business on Wednesdays.

Mostly college students, big families and other who rather prefer not to see movies at high prices have also started to walk into to see at this Rs 50/- rate.

The funda being that many hindi movies don't last more than 3 days in theaters , this is because of the silly story lines & awful quality many people consider it to be wise enough to see them on the TV after a month as they can watch iot free of cost albeit with a little advertisement annoyance.

Anyway kudos to the Cinemax team and with opening of the other 2 screens we do hope to see more English movies lined up as many here are more keen to see English (Avatar an example).

So if you want to see a movie do see it on A WEDNESDAY .

New Road from Garodia Nagar to Eastern Express Highway

A new connecting road to the Eastern Express Highway was laid and quietly opened for traffic about a month ago.

This road is parallel to the EEH which connects the 90ft road (which we used to call as Driving school road as about 20 yrs ago this was used by driving school enterprises to train newbies) . The 90ft road starting from the Police Qtrs, Police colony adjoining Vallabh baug lane end where the Maharashtra State police Stadium is built. Leading upto the bridge over the nallah (gutter) joining Garodia Nagar / Nath Pai Nagar to Pestom Sagar.

The New road is built over the waste land swamp which is running parallel to the highway & connects at the end of this bridge. The earlier service road , right at the start of Pushpa Vihar Hotel to the EEH was just a temporary walkway made by the many people who used to stay in Kamraj Nagar. Slowly this road was encroached upon by the vegetable sellers which has now become a big but illegal market for the poor people.

There were attempts made to make this service road a permanent road with many politicians using it as bait for garnering votes, but the local RTO & due to the fact that many people had lost their lives crossing the EEH, and vehicular accidents it was only tarred for walking purpose. The road was used nevertheless by the people and car , rickshaw drivers as a short cut.

The 90ft service road (not to be confused with the other 90ft road which starts from Meghraj Hotel signal to Shivaji Technical school,) has many new buildings on either side, the complex being called Sudha Park, & is now made of concrete. Rickshaw Drivers Unions have  been using this road without proper permission for parking more than 200 Rickshaws on either side of the road.

The nuisance created by the rickshaw drivers is less said the better , most of them using the walls of the nearby buildings for urinating, spitting paan residue, washing their clothes and repairing their vehicles. This has created lot of hardships for the residential people mostly ladies who are subjected to eve teasing & constant stares of these drivers & vagabonds. Walking has become a nightmare on this junction as cars come from all directions and also the BEST Bus 404.


Squatters  have made the bridge , swamp opposite the Holy Family School, Rerhi Bunder road  their homes, they squat all over the place , some segregating garbage , leaving trash not useful to them on the roads. With urine & shit all over the place walking the bridge , road becomes difficult ,coupled with  the new problem of the vehicles, which virtually makes this area a death trap.

Hope the Local Corporator / MLA / MP along with BMC , Local police & RTO make some arrangements to ease the problems faced by the little children & people who walk on this road soon.