The Bambino Cinema, is located in
Saddar
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area of
Karachi
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.
History
The Bambino Cinema was built in the 1960s as the first cinema in Pakistan with a double balcony seating and
70 mm film
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screen and projection equipment. It was inaugurated by
President
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Ayub Khan
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in 1968.
During the 1970s, when the Pakistani film industry was in its boom, a mini-cinema Scala was built on its first floor. The cinema is also famous because it was built by
Hakim Ali Zardari
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, father of Pakistani president
Asif Ali Zardari
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, who sold it later.
See also
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Movie theater
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Cinema of Pakistan
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External links
Bambino Cinema
Cinemas and movie theatres in Pakistan
Gambino crime family