the imax presentation is wonderful...i would urge you to watch it there..

you really appreciate the work when devdas is watched on the imax at t.o...

Rana ji! Ask Bludhound? pls.? he is off to Toronto to watch DEVDAS?

Thanks Dogra K and Arsh. I will be at the next DEVDAS showing at T.O. Cinesphere I-max which is this Sat at 9:15 PM.

Will let you know if the presentation was worth the trip.

Rana

Kiya baat hai rana ji! keep us posted ? aap bhi DEVDAS jaise DEVDAS hogaey Hazaoor! I agree u need to c this film in full galore, BTW! Did u confront ur local theatre, just for info sake, what was the source of their projection? :vsneaky:

hey guys, I posted this in another topic, but the toronto IMAX presentation of DEVDAS is very very good. The picture looked really perfect (especially on the large screen), while the sound was just amazing. You could hear every tiny sound from all the different musical instruments to the ladies' jewelry clinking against other jewelry (like Paayals, choories, etc.).

Anybody who can MUST see this film in IMAX!

And the print was flawless except for maybe one or two scratches (if even!).

srk talks about technical side of filmamking..

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~if01ni/srkdev.zip

There is only one word to describe DEVDAS Cinesphere Toronto presentation.

WOW.

This was the best Indian movie presentation that I have ever seen.

The screen is Gigantic, much bigger than the “Big Screen Big Sound” theatres, where the screens already are BIG. Unless you are sitting in the last few rows, your eyes can’t cover the whole screen. Despite the Gigantic projection, the picture was SHARP, DETAILED, BRIGHT AND CLEAR.

Audio was excellent as well. I am not sure whether the audio was DTS, DTS 6.1. DD or DD Ex. Whatever it was, it was LOUD, CLEAR and had proper DIRECTIONALITY. Sounds, loud ones and even the feeble ones, if originating from outside of the shown picture area, came from the appropriate direction speaker. 3 weeks ago when I wasted my 4 hours in a crap screening (14 ft x 33 ft). A small scuffle broke out, as some one’s whispering was disturbing people in the next row. In this showing, you couldn’t hear anything even if someone shouted in your ear. I am sure the peak audio level must have been 110 dB (as per Directors Intentions) or may be 120 dB occasionally (Next time I will carry my Radio Shack dB indicator). Of course, it had thundering base.

As Darius25 advised above, any one who can make it to the T.O. Cinesphere presentation of DEVDAAS must see it in Cinesphere (or any theatre as good). I will add HUMRAAZ, COMPANY, MISSION KASHMIR, AKS, RTGM, SHOLAY, DIL SE etc into this category as well.

Devdas was a 35 mm print (35 mm x 24 frames per sec) shown on a large screen. Can you imagine what will it be like to see TAJMAHAL I-MAX (70 mm x 48 frames per sec??

Rana

P.S.
1) Thank you, Dogra K and Darius25 for the right advice.
2) Arsh, I didn’t confront the local theatre to see if it was a DVD presentation.
Few reasons:
Firstly, you can’t contact them by phone as only the answering machine comes on (I don’t like to leave my name and Ph # for them to call me back). Secondly, although it may very well be, but I don’t think a DVD picture can be projected to a 14 ft x 33 ft screen. I may be wrong on this one as the picture really was that bad. I am not the only one, even others whom I thought did not care about quality, had the same complaint. Also, the burnt sub-titles were too bright to be coming out of a DVD (I may be wrong though).

QUESTION:
What is Toronto Cinesphere? I-max, Omni-max or both? The screen was roughly square of which only a part of the screen was used for the projection.

I am glad! rana ji! nath! and filmibuff!, aapki Toronto TEERATH YATRA safal rahi! u were able to see DEVDAS in its FULL GALORE! I missed on Sound! PICTURE was GOOD from 35 mm print any ways!CONGRATULATIONS to all!! Get ready for SHIT presentation by EROS on DVD!

Agree with rana completely.. cinesphere screening rocks.... the sound was awesome.. i loved watching the movie there....
As far as what i knew the cinesphere is just a imax theatre...

Filmibuff yup I will concur with you .. It was awesome no doubt. I wish Sholay also can be screened in the same theatre ( as part of an Indian movie screeing package )

The only spoiler arsh ji/FB was the vivid desperation of desi folks there... During the interval we had left our seats and after we come back in we see that a desi young couple had taken over our place and surprise surprise..passionate love making ( I wonder what they may be in real life ! frustrated ).. But that gave us the chance to move to the centre of the theatre and wow that was an even better choice. Finally the Hara rang daala..indeed looked like Hara

Well!! Ek ticket do maza! lol! even better1 jahan desi honge! Yeh sab kuch hoga bhaiya! kiya karaen, hum ne apni daastan bhi suna di, 3 hrs standing wait! 1/2 hrs, dhakum pel! landing us in front 1/3rd of theatre! 3 hrs of no air condition and agonising, zakhm par mirchi, lousy sound! hmm!that all comes with DEVDAS! mas:

Wanted to go to cinesphere Toronto again (to show rest of the family the difference), but it is not showing there anymore. I wonder why? In the last week showing theatre was aprox 65% full meaning aprox $ 6500 (one show). I wonder if it is not enough to cover the rental and to make a profit.

I hope they have a Devdas showing in the cinesphere next week if this week was not available.

Rana

Also, anybody in London who saw Devdas during its first week of release at EMPIRE LEICESTER SQUARE

Also, anybody in London who saw Devdas during its first week of release at EMPIRE LEICESTER SQUARE -- they've moved it from the smaller theater 2 to the bigger state-of-the-art theater 1 and the sound quality is now superb! Consider seeing it again....

I was going to Guelph (Ontario) this weekend and London (Ont) is not too far from there.

Oops, too bad, it's London UK you are talking about

Wish there was such an up-scale theatre transfer here in Toronto or around.

Rana