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Big-ticket Hollywood movies Oppenheimer and Barbie were lapped up by audiences in Srinagar, says INOX Cinema theatre owner Vikas Dhar, who is confident that the momentum will continue with Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani as the film's director Karan Johar enjoys a huge fan following in the region..
The theatre owner said he started getting requests for Oppenheimer, headlined by Cillian Murphy, about four-five weeks before the film's release on July 21..
In a video message, Johar had expressed "immense gratitude" to Dhar's educationist father Vijay Dhar and the people of Kashmir for their love and support during the making of Rocky Aur Rani....
The love for cinema in Kashmir is not just limited to Bollywood, he said, recalling how the tickets for Oppenheimerwere sold out in two-three hours of opening and the first day-first show of the movie was houseful..
"Right now, what's happening is that people with special interest in a particular movie are coming and seeing it," the 56-year-old said.. Citing the example of Pathaan, Dhar said people came in "droves" to watch the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer earlier this year so much so that a viewer asked him if he could bring a chair from his house since they had run out of tickets...
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