Popcorn punchers and mobile mumblers sieging cinema

It was a tender moment, a sheer romantic minute when the lips of the boy and the girl on the screen were about to meet in a kiss.

- GAUTAMAN BHASKARAN

It was a tender moment, a sheer romantic minute when the lips of the boy and the girl on the screen were about to meet in a kiss. However, a shrill ring interrupted what would have been sheer ecstasy for the couple. A mobile telephone played the perfect spoilsport. The man whose cell rang looked sheepish but perhaps could not care less that he had disturbed a marvellously magic moment.

One of the most irritating aspects about watching a film in a theatre anywhere in India—even outside—is the din and disturbance the neighbour causes.

Indeed, one of the major impediments to an uninterrupted movie experience is the way people keep tinkering with the buttons of their little gadgets, but this often gets worse when they begin having loud conversations about the most inane of subjects.