Below is a list and a series of interactive maps showing the locations (or approximate locations) of theatres and cinemas at one time owned or operated by Madan Theatres or J F Madan’s other firms.
This is by no means a comprehensive list and we are still in the process of collating information on the vast majority of Madan’s cinemas and theatres.
Please contact us if you have any additions or corrections.
KOLKATA
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Head Office (for Madan Theatres Ltd and J F Madan Co)
Location: 5 Dharmatala Street (now Lenin Sarani)
Status: Closed
Cornwallis Theatre
Location: 138 Cornwallis Street
Other names: renamed Sree Cinema
Corinthian Theatre
Location: 5 Dharmatala Street (now Lenin Sarani)
Status: Closed
The Electric Theatre (now the Regal Theatre)
Location: 4 S.N. Banerjee Street, Calcutta
Status: Active
Crown Cinema (today Uttara Cinema)
Location: 138 Bidhan Sarani, Shyambazar, Kolkata, 700004
Other names: renamed Uttara Cinema
Status: Active
Elphinstone Picture Palace (later Minerva Cinema and latterly Chaplin Cinema)
Built: 1907
Location: 5/1 Chowringhee Place, Kolkata
Status: Demolished in 2013
Often referred to as India’s first purpose-built cinema.
SRI LANKA
Elphinstone Picture Palace
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Built: 1926
Clifford Pavilion
Palace Hall
MADRAS
Elphinstone Picture Palace
Built: N/A
Location: Mount Road, Madras
Status: NA
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EMPIRE THEATRE COLOMBO NO 1 ,BAYBROOK PLACE COLOMBO . NAME PUBLIC HALL’ IT;S BUILT IN 1899.IN 1912 LEASE BY WARWICK MAJOR AND 1924 THIS PREMISES BUY MADAN. 13TH OF JULY 1929 MADAN CONVERT THE FILM THEATRE AND RENAME EMPIRE.THIS IS THE FIRST TALKIE THEATRE IN SRI LANKA. 1939 THIS THEATRE OWNED BY CEYLON THEATRES
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