Hyderabad: A big fire broke out at the Cinema Theater Shiva Parvathi in the Kukatpally Housing Board colony during delicious hours Monday.
There were no victims reported.
Kukatpally firefighting officials said that they received a call from the theater security guard who told them about fire at around 4:30 a.m.
Immediately, the fire tender from Kukatpally station rushed to the place to extinguish the fire.
However, seeing massive fire, officials called for two more fire tenders from Madhapur and Annapurna studio to stop the fire.
Three hours later, firefighters managed to put out the fire in the range of one hour, however, all single screen theaters were destroyed.
Chairs, screens, roofs, walls, ballot boxes and other equipment found completely scorched.
However, the police Kukatpally said that the cause of the fire was uncertain, however, they suspected that a short relationship could be the reason.
“Fortunately, the incident occurred during Wee hours when a single screen theater runs the show late at night until 1 am in the middle of the night.
There are no victims like other staff have returned home after their assignments,” said a police officer Kukatpally.
Loss of property is estimated to be more than 5 crores.
“This theater is right close to other important places such as Arjun Theater, Wishwanath Theater, Mamata Hospital and also gasoline.
We managed to prevent fires from spreading to the adjacent place that could end with devastating consequences,” Police added.