Public should be allowed to take water and eatables in theatres: Tvpm Corporation

Thiruvananthapuram: The Corporation of Thiruvananthapuram has issued a directive to the cinema theatres in the city limits not to prevent audience taking water or food from outside to the theatres. The action was taken following an intervention made by the State Human Rights Commission into the matter.

The Corporation Secretary had informed the State Human Rights Commission that notice has already been issued to the theatre owners not to prevent the public from taking water or food into the theatres.

The Commission had ordered enquiry into a recent incident in a city theatre where a family was thrown out of the theatre for carrying snacks, after checking their bag. Most of the theatres in the city have unbending rules when it comes to taking drinks or food from outside to the theatres. They insist that the public should purchase the food and drinks only from the eateries inside the theatre at whatever rates offered by them.

The Human Rights Commission chairman Justice Antony Dominic had sought a report from the Corporation Secretary and the City Police Commissioner regarding this issue, following the complaint lodged by human rights activist Ragam Rahim.

The Corporation has also instructed the theatre owners to exhibit price charts of the food items available for sale in the eateries inside the theatre.