I'd read something on a thread on Zulm somewhere about South India being more quality conscious than North India (but I couldn't find which thread that was in). Just read on Bollywood Hungama that Resul Pookutty is taking on the multiplexes after disastrous sound quality at a screening of Robot:

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/20 ... index.html

I am total agreement with Resul on this. My experience at almost every single multiplex that I have visited in the last couple of years has been quite bad. The sound generally ranges from atrocious to okay at best and the problems vary and are a plenty. Almost always, the sound is either way too loud or it is not loud enough. At times the movie is playing the fallback analog track instead of the digital track. A few times i have even found the speakers blown out and delivering totally distorted sound. While watching 'Kambakht IShq I had to erequest the management to turn down the ear piercing volume level atleast 8 - 10 times and even then the volume was way too loud at PVR Ambience. Do keep in mind this is the flagship multiplex of India's number exhibition company. At the same theater the experience while watching Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' was the other extreme. Even after having requested the management to increase the volume atleast 10 times, it was still just not loud enough. The one pattern I have noticed is that with Hindi movies, the audio is almost always too loud and with hollywood movies the volume level is so low, that even dialogue is barely audible. Personally I try to avoid watching movies at the theaters now and prefer my home theater.

Double post.

I have stopped going to theater unfortunately here in my home town reason being 2 channel sound most of time, no dts. In Indian desi cinemas and in their sponsored showing of Hindi films in main stream theaters too unfortunately;(
I refuse to pay full price , drive, wait and then get 1/2 the experience,

gotta agree the sound in indian theaters is terrible, they just prefer it to be loud for some reason. i watched ghajini at big cinemas and got a bit of a ear ache by the end of the show...