CINEMAS FOREVER
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THE BOOK

Cinemas Forever

How Movie Theatres Fought Back Against TV, Home Video, Streaming—and Survived Two Pandemics

By Vishek Chauhan

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Cinemas Forever is a deeply researched account of how theatrical exhibition repeatedly adapted to technologies and crises that threatened its existence — told through the eyes of a fourth-generation cinema exhibitor.

252 Pages
2026 Publication
ISBN 9798902963073
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WHAT THE BOOK COVERS

Every threat changed cinema.

Television. Home video. DVDs. Streaming. And two pandemics.

Every generation has predicted the end of the movie theatre. Yet the theatre kept adapting, and Cinemas Forever explores that remarkable history through the experience of a family that has run cinemas since 1960.

From the rise of television to the streaming revolution and two unprecedented pandemics, the cinema experience repeatedly reinvented itself. This book is the record of how.

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The Author Vishek Chauhan, fourth-generation cinema exhibitor and CEO of Roopbani Cinema. Reviews What readers, exhibitors and critics have said about the book. Press Interviews and coverage in the national media. Buy the Book Paperback, hardcover and Kindle on Amazon and Notion Press.