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...dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges as much as three times more for a ticket than the old cinemas did, Baijal sees the young set "coming back all the time. They are getting more exposure. They know what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Hey, Big Spenders | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges as much as three times more for a ticket than the old cinemas did, Baijal sees the young set "coming back all the time. They are getting more exposure. They know what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Big Spenders | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...constant changes of character do justice to the often excellent acting. Only Page Leong (Nina and Masha) really seems comfortable with the constant transitions, managing to define and distinguish her two roles without overacting. Shishir Kurup solves this conundrum by hamming up Sorin so that he can play Taper/Trigorin with deadpan nonchalance. Christopher Liam Moore, on the other hand, makes little distinction at all between Cam/Konstantin and Simon/Medviedenko. As with other aspects of the play, enormous promise, here in the form of fine acting, is ultimately undermined by taking dramatic conceits like these schizoid duos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEKHOV GOES HOLLYWOOD IN TOO~HIP 'CALIFORNIA SEAGULL' | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

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