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
Date to be announcedDoors, feature time follow once it’s set.
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
To be announcedSet alongside the date.
Certified A
Passed uncut. Bring photo ID that matches your ticket.
Countdown starts once a date is set.
What this is
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
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
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
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
Programme subject to change · No re-entry after TBA
Stills
Box office
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.
Rows A–G · 140 seats
Seats out, floor open. Closest to the system.One person, one application.
Rows H–L · 76 seats
Original seats, kept. Elevated, straight down the centre line.One person, one application.
Rows M–N · 24 seats
The upper tier, four to a box. Table service, own bar.One person, one application.
Nothing is charged when you apply. You only reach a payment page if you are offered a spot.
Before you apply
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.
239 spots remain
Applications close when the room is full, or on the day — whichever comes first.
