Marathi Movie World readers from Nagpur have expressed their strong feelings about the raw deal given to Marathi Cinema in their city and have questioned as to why majority of the theatres are not showing Maratrhi films, in spite of this city being termed as the second capital of Maharashtra? The following facts have been brought to our notice by our readers who have been deprived of watching Marathi films in theatres.

Till the end of 2000, there were 24 single screen cinemas in Nagpur. The number has now been reduced to 15 single screens. In addition to this, there are 3 multiplex cinema houses. Out of 15 single screens, one cinema house sometimes shows Marathi movies.
Multiplexes do not screen Marathi movies. Only exception being Cinemax, which had recently organised a week long special shows of Marathi movies (one movie-one show- per day throughout Maharashtra). Most of the Marathi movies released in 2010-11 were not exhibited here.

Last year, Nirzer film society had organised a festival of Marathi Movies for only one week. All the shows were house full. Tremendous response was received from public to this festival. Is that not enough for the film distributors and Cinema owners to understand the demand for Marathi films? Or, is this a deliberate attempt to push aside Marathi cinema only to market Hindi films?