5 best Multiplexes in India

1. PVR

Priya Village Roadshow (PVR) Cinemas is one of the largest cinema chains in India. The company, which began as a joint venture agreement between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited, began its commercial operations in June 1997 with the launch of PVR Anupam in Saket, India’s first multiplex. By introducing the multiplex concept in India, PVR Cinemas brought in a whole new paradigm shift to the cinema viewing experience: high class seating, state-of-the-art screens and audio-visual systems. As of April 2010, PVR has a total of 142 screens in 33 multiplexes across India.
The company’s long-term vision is to remain India’s most premiums and most preferred Retail Entertainment Company. To achieve this vision, PVR will continue to provide the highest exhibition standards at its cinemas besides increasing the number of cinemas under operation on a pan India basis. PVR will further look forward to bringing allied retail entertainment concepts to India to complement and complete the entertainment experience for its patrons.

                                                                 

2.Big Cinemas

BIG Cinemas, a division of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd (formerly known as “Adlabs Films Limited”) and a member of Reliance ADA Group is India’s largest cinema chain with over 515 screens spread across India, US, Malaysia and Netherlands and caters to over 40 million consumers. Headquartered in Mumbai, BIG Cinemas was founded in 2001. BIG Cinemas has established leadership in film exhibition in India with more than 260 screens. BIG Cinemas has also successfully created a pan US footprint and the circuit accounts for about 30-35% of Hindi features box office collections and over 70% of Tamil and Telugu box office collections from the US.

BIG Cinemas, a division of Reliance MediaWorks Limited, a member of the Reliance Group, is India’s largest cinema chain with about 516 screens spread across India, US and Malaysia. After pioneering the IMAX experience in India, it recently launched 3D and 6D technology and is the only cinema chain to screen films in all three formats. It is also launching the first megaplexes in the country.

3. Inox

INOX Leisure Limited is the diversification venture of the INOX group into entertainment and is a subsidiary of Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd headquartered in Mumbai. INOX currently operates 40 multiplexes and 151 screens in 26 cities across India. INOX is also in an alliance with the Pantaloon Group – a partnership that provides INOX preferential access to all real estate developments, which Pantaloon takes up for its retail chain. INOX was also chosen post a nationwide tender to design, construct and operate the multiplex in Goa. This 4 screen multiplex of INOX has been hosting the International Film Festival of India IFFI since 2004.

Inox has screens present in these cities : Bangalore, Belgaum, Bharuch, Burdwan, Chennai, Darjeeling, Durgapur, Faridabad, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Liluah, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Raipur, Siliguri, Thane, Vadodara, Vijaywada and Vizag.

4. Prasads IMAX

It is South India’s first IMAX theater, built by L. V. Prasad group. It has the largest IMAX 3D screen in the world and is located in the city of Hyderabad. Apart from the IMAX screen the multiplex has 5 screens for regular cinema, a shopping mall, entertainment zone, food courts, restaurants and several other entertainment including a 4D FX theater, Mirror Maze, Scary House and a large Gaming Zone. Prasads IMAX achieved the Number 1 status in the world for attendance for the movies Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-man 2 and Spider-man 3.

Prasad group is synonymous to the Indian entertainment Industry. The Group’s founder Late Shri. L.V. Prasad was a doyen and a pioneer in the Indian Movie Industry. The flagship company of the Group Prasad Productions has a standing of nearly five decades in filmedentertainment. Since its inception in 1956, it has produced some of India’s finest movies providing wholesome family entertainment. Mr. L.V Prasad himself directed several films, which have enthralled the audiences, young and old with his realistic family-oriented themes, many of which have been box office successes.

5. Cinepolis

Cinepolis is a Mexican multiplex chain with presence in Amritsar, Bangalore and Thane and also Patna. Cinepolis has plans to setup multiplexes in Patna, Mangalore and Jaipur in the near future. Cinepolis has made a blueprint to operate 500 screens in India with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore and the result is the signing of deals with 12 developers in eight cities for setting up 110 screens in the first phase, There are also plans to enter into deals with realty developers for creating 200 more screens across India by 2010. 

Cinepolis is the 5th largest multiplex operator in the world, currently operating more than 2000 screens in 6 countries. It is a Mexico based company founded in 1947. Cinepolis has entered India in a big way adding to the excitement of the Indian audiences. Cinepolis has two kinds of theatres, regualr and VIP.