Since I was a child, I have been a fan of movies. During my childhood, we would always go to cinema hall, and I always enjoyed its magical atmosphere, the audience, the dark hall, and the projection.
‘A hall full of cinema’ documents the Manoshi Cinema, a 72- year-old cinema hall, located in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. In recent years the cinema halls have dwindled due to cost cuts, improper maintenance, poor film production, and the emergence of new technologies. In spite of these challenges, the Manoshi Cinema Hall is filled every weekend. I want to document this magical place and the people who visit it.
Most of the audiences belong to lower-income group who prefer to watch action films. Together with the drug addicts, prostitutes and the cinema staff, they transformed this place into another form of cinema as these characters both inside and outside of the theatre screen amused me with their actions and reactions.