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Sri Lanka
Dheena
- CM was screened on the 13th of April in SL. I think SL
was first to screen CM throughout the whole world. I
know u would be wondering y 13th, bcoz 14th was the
tamil new year. In SL 13th and 14th r called the Tamil &
Sinhalease new year. Though both community celebrate on
14th, Sinhalease ppl also celebrate the day before new
year which is called the "old year". So both days r
given holidays by the government of SL. This time the
theater management made use of this. As we know Rajini
is not only known by tamilians throughout this world,
many sinhalease also know rajini very well than any
other tamil actor.
CM was screened in
Colombo in 2 theaters. which was Concored and Cine city
complex. Concored is an old theater, but after more than
a year of reconstruction, they opened the theater with a
big bang by screening CM. This made the crowed not only
to come watch the movie also the theater. Usually in
Colombo theaters (accept for the 1st day) it is allowed
to advance book tickets. But for this movie tickets were
not allowed to advance book for 2 weeks.
Out of Colombo it was
screened in North and East, which were the war areas
before. Specially in East, in Batticaloa there were
advance bookings for this movie 2 weeks before the 14 th
of April. Also they had a cycle competition during the
week the movie was realesed and the prize was for 2
winners who came first to go to india and meet rajini
face to face.
Since there are few tamil
theaters in Colombo, usually a movie does not run for
long time. But CM has passed its 50th day and still
running successfully."
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