Cinema to be converted into conference hall
Super hit movies were screened at Odeon in days of yore
RAWALPINDI:
The 130-year-old Odeon Cinema at Rawalpindi Cantonment will be transformed into a conference hall as a comprehensive plan has been devised for modernising Pakistan’s biggest Cantonment Board.
Earlier, the management committee of the Lansdowne Trust had rendered the cinema dysfunctional.
The theatre was built by Rai Bahadur Sardar Karpal Singh and Rai Bahadur Sardar Sujan Singh in 1897. It was the time when even talkies had not been introduced and silent movies had just started.
As per historical records, Rai Bahadur Sardar Kirpal Singh and Rai Bahadur Sardar Sujan Singh founded the Lansdowne Trust Rawalpindi in 1891 and an administrative committee comprising the general officer commanding (GCO), Rawalpindi district, the Rawalpindi commissioner, the deputy commissioner and members of the trust, including their relatives, was constituted to offer education and amuseme