SSR Globe Cinemas

The 850-seat Opera House was a wooden building which was built by the British and opened on 16th November 1867 with a gala performance of Gounod’s “Faust”. The building was designed in a Baroque style. From 1899 it was a home for light opera & vaudeville. It was later renamed Bijou Grand Opera House. Seating was provided in orchestra level, with two horseshoe shaped balconies. It became a cinema in 1906 and was renamed Bijou Grand Opera House. A projection box was constructed at the rear of the second balcony. As the Globe Cinema it became one of the first few cinemas in Kolkata to regularly screen English films and was a popular cinema with Allied troops based in Calcutta during World War II.

In 1964 the Globe Cinema was completely modernised removing the two balconies and adding a new facade to a 1,125-seat modern auditorium with seating in orchestra and a large single balcony. The new modern Globe Cinema was designed by Bombay based architect B.A. Mistry. It reopened with Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra”, presented on a huge Todd-AO screen. It was closed in 2004 with Leonardo DiCaprio in “Titanic”. It was converted into a small shopping mall.

It was purchased by new owners SSR Cinemas and converted into a modern twin-screen cinema named SSR Globe Cinemas with seating for 239 & 197 and reopened on 8th October 2024. It is a Heritage Listed building.

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