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Chennai's firsttheatrerave

One night, one screen, one system. We take over a working single-screen cinema in Chennai, keep the seats, and run it until three.

Showtime

Saturday, 19 September 2026Doors 8:30 pm · Feature 9:00 pm

House

Venue released to the listA working single-screen cinema, Chennai

Dress code

Black tie, gone wrongFormalwear, deconstructed. No sportswear, no shorts, no logos.

Last admission

11:30 pmThe doors shut. There is no second house.

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Certified A

18+ · Adults only

Government photo ID at the door. No exceptions.

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Request a seat62 of 240 seats left

What this is

A rave with a showtime

FOMO has been throwing rooms in Chennai for people who are tired of being sold a guestlist. This is the first time anyone has done it inside a working theatre.

The room

A cinema, after the last show

Single screen, raked seating, a projection box that has been threading film since before most of the room was born. We keep the seats. We hang a system where the front stalls were and point everything at a screen thirty feet wide. The film keeps running all night — nobody is watching it, and that is the point.

The sound

Built for dialogue, borrowed for bass

An auditorium is already an acoustically treated box — that is the entire reason one is shaped the way it is. Angled walls, no parallel surfaces, heavy drapes, a ceiling designed to kill slap-back, and no neighbours on the far side of it. What we bring in does not have to fight the room, so the back row can be comfortable while the front is not.

The house

Two hundred and forty people, chosen

Every seat is applied for and every application is read. Not to be difficult — because a house of 240 people who each decided to be there is a completely different night from a house of 240 people who bought a ticket because one was available.

The programme

Doors at half eight.
Out by three.

20:30House opensFoyer bar. Ushers seat you. Torches only.
21:15TrailersResident on warm-up. Dub, downtempo, slow build.
22:30FeatureHeadline announced to the list. Screen goes live.
00:15IntermissionHouse lights up. Twelve minutes. Smoke outside.
00:30Second halfFull system. Seats are a suggestion by now.
02:45End creditsLast record, house lights, out by three.

Programme subject to change · No re-entry after 23:30

Stills

The whole reel

Box office

Pick your row.

Seats are allocated when you pay, in the order applications clear. You are buying a class, not a specific chair — the room is dark and by midnight nobody is sitting down anyway.

Stalls

Rows AG · 140 seats

Seats out, floor open. Closest to the system.One person, one seat.

₹3,490

Dress Circle

Rows HL · 76 seats

Original seats, kept. Elevated, straight down the centre line.One person, one seat.

₹5,490

Balcony

Rows MN · 24 seats

The upper tier, four to a box. Table service, own bar.Four people, one application.

₹12,000

Request a seat

Nothing is charged when you apply. You only reach a payment page if you are offered a seat.

Before the feature

House rules

Yes, and it is not decorative. House lights up at 00:15, twelve minutes, bar and smoking area open, then the second half. It is the one point in the night where you can have a conversation without shouting, which is exactly why cinemas invented it.

All the rules

62 seats remain

Book a seat

Applications close when the house is full, or on the day — whichever comes first.