cinema the worlds most powerful audiovisual medium has always impacted young people andrei tarkovsky the greatest russian movie maker after eisenstein had said unlike all the other art forms film is able to seize and render the passage of time to stop it almost to possess it in infinity id say that film is the sculpting of time the movies came to bihar in the early years of 20th century j f madan had acquired the elphinstone theatre co of bombay in 1902 and converted it into the elphinstone bioscope co patna had its own elphinstone theatre which became the elphinstone cinema and started showing short silent films after the advent of talkies it started showing films with sound its ownership changed after the collapse of the madan empire in 1930s cine society president rajendra n dash writes of another silent cinema theatre built in china kothi patna which withered away after the advent of talkies in 1931 the first talkie theatre of patna was built at babu bazar southwest patna debuting with the talkie veer abhimanyu in 1933 or 1934 not long after a huge fire destroyed the theatre caused by the highly volatile nitrate film reels it was never rebuilt today patna boasts of a multiplex and several cinema halls with 3d and 4d technologies but a growing number of discerning young people say that these theatres fall short of their expectations when it comes to content honestly patna doesnt offer much to the discerning viewer one or two english movies screened at the cinepolis are mainly action movies fantasies and animation films the rest of the screens in patna show hollywood blockbusters dubbed in hindi which are poor substitutes says 19yearold manoj kumar a second year student of mass media in sikkim manipals distance education programme when i want to watch a bergman or fellini or a tarantino for example the place to go is a cine circle its great cinema and almost free film studies and cinema have become an important part of mass media courses and it is imperative that students watch and analyze classic and contemporary cinema from all over the world film appreciation clubs and societies are emerging in patna here in private showings to members and guests enthusiastic youngsters and cinema aficionados can experience the film magic of masters old and new for the past year in a small upper room opposite the sacred heart church in new patliputra colony the faithful disciples of cinema gather for their weekend screen supper almost every week the act cine circle screens a documentary or film of the independent variety sourced directly from the maker distributor or a private collection these are strictly noncommercial private screenings for viewing and discussion insists the coordinator shanti ghimire a media student at the malauna mazrul haque arabic and persian university we mention the film on our facebook status pages and create an event on our facebook page interested people phone in and accordingly we make seating arrangements our