Harking back to the golden days of cinema

It was an evening to cherish for cinema connoisseurs as ‘

Magic of Cinema

’, a photo exhibition juxtaposing images of halls, film studios and galleries of the German city of Hamburg in the ’70s, against old cinema houses and film culture of Hyderabad, got underway at a city studio recently. Marking their attendance were Amala Akkineni, Mohan Krishna Indraganti,

Amita Desai

and other prominent Hyderabadis.

The dignitaries reflected on the fast disappearing single screens as a part of cinema culture and its relevance to world cinema in general. The event was followed by a screening of the greatly-feted 1988 Italian film, Cinema '

Paradiso

'.

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