Dhaka, June 8 -- "Back in the day, whenever we had Tk 20 or 50," Nasrin Hossain Mita says with a wistful smile, "my sisters or friends and I would run off to the cinema, most often to Rajmoni, like it was magic waiting behind the curtains."

That magic, it seems, has long left the building.

"Rajmoni doesn't even exist anymore," adds Mita, now a resident of Dhaka's Basabo, speaking to Glitz.

And the ones that do? "Not worth it."

"I went to a hall once and found the chairs broken, the sound system terrible. The audience made it impossible to enjoy the film in peace. I left before the movie was even halfway through."

She's not alone in her disillusionment. Mirza Rashedul Hoque, who once frequented the iconic Balaka hall in Nilkhet, doesn...