Bengali actor Rudra Sen Gupta speaks about theatre audience in Kolkata

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Bengali film actor Rudra Sen Gupta speaks about the theatre audience in Kolkata, he says, "Earlier, almost every theatre show in Kolkata was Housefull, residents of Kolkata used to love watching theatre they travel from one corner of the city to another corner just to watch the theatre show. Their daily routine was to watch shown while going back to their home from their workplaces. The shows were houseful even in bad weather, but now the people become more busy with their work and personal life that they prefer to watch TV or read the newspaper instead of watching Theatre shows. If one show of any theatre group goes flop then the public never watch any show of that group again. People expect that if they are going to watch a theatre show then it should be good but still, there are a numbe