{"id":69704,"date":"2025-02-26T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/26\/india-pvr-inox-cinema-chain-fine-preview-ads"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:13:18","slug":"indian-cinema-chain-sued-by-film-goer-over-lengthy-pre-film-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69704","title":{"rendered":"Indian cinema chain sued by film-goer over lengthy pre-film ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders compensation to be paid to 30-year-old from Bangalore, saying \u2018in the new era, time is considered as money, each one\u2019s time is very precious\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>For some, the adverts that precede the start of a film are the bane of a trip to the cinema; for others, they are a useful buffer as you stand in the popcorn queue.<\/p>\n<p>But for one man in India, the lengthy marathon of cinema advertising was so infuriating that he took the matter to the courts \u2013 and won.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/26\/india-pvr-inox-cinema-chain-fine-preview-ads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders compensation to be paid to 30-year-old from Bangalore, saying \u2018in the new era, time is considered as money, each one\u2019s time is very precious\u2019 For some, the adverts that precede the start of a film are the bane of a trip to the cinema; for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69705,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69704\/revisions\/69705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}