Back at the beginning of November we were sitting in a traffic jam, and noticed a big advert for Skyfall at the the Dhaka cineplex. What Dhaka cineplex I thought?
It turns out it is on the 8th floor of Bashundhara City - a mall with cinema / food hall / ice skating
We got there at 15.30 for a 16.10 showing of Skyfall - but it was sold out, so we had to buy tickets for the 19.05 show. Luckily with 8 floors to browse round, we had plenty to look at. The floors seem to be quite easy to negotiate, menswear floor, ladieswear floor, gold floor, shoes and pirated dvd/music floor. Our favourite was of course the food mall. We looked round a lot, but didn't really buy anything, since we didn't have our shopping attitude on..but we enjoyed looking, and of course watching the middle-class Dhaka-ites.
The food court had such delightful names as Fried King, Fried Hut, Luscious Pizza, Bangla Fried Chicken. Most of the food seemed Indian rather than Bangladeshi, and most of the places seemed to be selling the same menus, and most of the food was ...fried!
Chole batura and chicken curry (big deep fried bread, lentil curry)
Masala dosa, + chicken curry (big thin mungbean flour pancake and lentil curry, chicken curry, coconut relish)
Inside the cinema
The cinema itself was comfortable and...well it was a cinema. We were too late this time to book the Taka 275 premium tickets, but got the 225 regular seats instead (£1.75 /€ 2.10) which were fine.
Several things were of course different. Before the screening began, the national anthem was played, and we all stood up! There was an intermission (more snacking opportunities), and most oddly the film was stopped and an anti smoking message and advert played whenever a cigarette was smoked in the film.
Overall we really enjoyed ourselves. Dinner and a movie for under €10 means Lon is a happy man! Oh and because we were later coming home, it only took 15 mins instead of the hour it took to get there, and the film was fun too!
It turns out it is on the 8th floor of Bashundhara City - a mall with cinema / food hall / ice skating
We got there at 15.30 for a 16.10 showing of Skyfall - but it was sold out, so we had to buy tickets for the 19.05 show. Luckily with 8 floors to browse round, we had plenty to look at. The floors seem to be quite easy to negotiate, menswear floor, ladieswear floor, gold floor, shoes and pirated dvd/music floor. Our favourite was of course the food mall. We looked round a lot, but didn't really buy anything, since we didn't have our shopping attitude on..but we enjoyed looking, and of course watching the middle-class Dhaka-ites.
The cinema itself was comfortable and...well it was a cinema. We were too late this time to book the Taka 275 premium tickets, but got the 225 regular seats instead (£1.75 /€ 2.10) which were fine.
Several things were of course different. Before the screening began, the national anthem was played, and we all stood up! There was an intermission (more snacking opportunities), and most oddly the film was stopped and an anti smoking message and advert played whenever a cigarette was smoked in the film.
Overall we really enjoyed ourselves. Dinner and a movie for under €10 means Lon is a happy man! Oh and because we were later coming home, it only took 15 mins instead of the hour it took to get there, and the film was fun too!
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