Regal Cinema downs its curtains in Delhi: last day last show!

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After entertaining film lovers for more than eight decades, Regal Theatre is signing off in style with a 'house-full' last show of Raj Kapoor's 1964 movie "Sangam". Built in the pre-independent era, Regal once hosted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and megastar Amitabh Bachchan. The cinema hall, which opened in 1932, will stop operating as a single screen from on Friday, but the staff is treating the last day at work just like another day. "All shows are booked for today. But we have a few tickets left for the front-stall of the evening show of Raj Kapoor's 'Mera Naam Joker'. We don't know if any of them will be left in a few hours from now," says manager Roop Ghai. He says it was a difficult moment for the Regal family but it was something that could not have b