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Then and now: A movie palace fit for an emperor By Frank Chemaly Share Today’s old picture features the Shah Jehan cinema on the corner of Grey and Lorne streets, (today Dr Yusuf Dadoo and Ismail C Meer) which was once Durban’s largest. The picture was taken in the 2 400-seater cinema’s heyday, probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The movie billed is probably the 1965 film Shaheed, a biography of one of India's greatest patriots Sardar Bhagat Singh, directed by S Ram Sharma and starring Kamini Kaushal, Nirupa Roy, and Anand Kumar. It could also have been a rerun of the ...