This is a list of the Deccani film industry's movies filmed in Hyderabadi Urdu and based on Hyderabadi culture. The movie does not need to be produced in Hyderabad. Films produced about Hyderabad should include words that are typically spoken by Hyderabadi working-class people.
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Secunderabad, home to some of the iconic theatres in the country, was well-known for the sheer number and good upkeep of cinema theatres for long. Out of the many theatres that screened Telugu, Hindi, English and even Malayalam movies, many landmarks have now gone missing. These were literally landmarks because the locality would always be referred to by the biggest and most well-known theatres there.
Sangeet and Anand: Located at Sangeeth X Roads, Sangeet 70mm was the landmark cinema hall that first bought Hollywood movies to the city. Over five decades old, Sangeet was the first cinema hall in Hyderabad to install Ultra Stereo Optical Sound in 1994 and later the Digital Theatre System in 1995. For the movie lovers of Secunderabad, this was where they first devoured English classics such as Gone with the Wind and Falling in Love.
Zamrud: One of the oldest and grandest in terms of its location, Zamrud was located right in the middle of Abids in Koti and usually screened Hindi movies. Residents of Koti recollect the huge movie posters, of course hand-painted at that time, that were displayed all over and were the talk of the town.
The theatre was damaged in 1991 when Congress activists, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, torched it damaging the seats, interiors and other equipment. The theatre underwent a major overhaul in 2013 and reopened as Asian Tarakarama Cineplex, which screens only regular movies.
Liberty and Dreamland: Liberty Theatre was so popular that the bus stop and the junction of the Basheerbagh-Tank Bund road and Himayat Nagar came to be known as Liberty. Classics like The Sound of Music and Guns of Navarone enjoyed a fair share of re-runs here. The theatre was also famous for its classic old-fashioned architecture. It screened lots of English movies which later degenerated into B-grade English movies.
Similar to Liberty was Dreamland, which screened many a English movie in the 1960s but later started showing only shady movies. It was later transformed into a prayer hall and is now on the verge of giving way to the elevated expressway to Hakimpet.
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