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- Daily Mirror
Moment furious Cineworld staff stopped movie screening to tell off customers
Sanj Langi, 49, who filmed the incident at Cineworld in Birmingham, told staff that customers were showering the room with confetti during a movie - which is a tradition in some parts of the world
Furious Cineworld staff stopped a movie screening to tell off customers after they showered the theatre in confetti.
Sanj Langi says 'around seven' people threw blue confetti in the air when their favourite actor appeared on screen in an Indian action movie at the cinema in Birmingham on Wednesday July 23.
The 49-year-old admits he left the cinema after half an hour as he didn't like the film but not without telling staff about the 'annoying' customers. Workers then stopped the film to confront viewers and Sanj's footage shows them declaring it's 'basic sense' not to throw confetti even if they didn't see a sign prohibiting it. It comes after engineers were sacked after building a £1.6million right-angle 'disaster' bridge.
An outspoken customer continues to argue back when one of the staff hits back 'so you're saying you have no common sense'.
The other worker explains 'we have to clean it' and warns 'if this happens again the whole movie is going off and everyone is going home'.
Sanj says it's common for confetti to be thrown at cinemas in southern India and in this case it was thrown because popular actor Pawn Kalyan appeared on screen.
He claims there was a sign prohibiting the throwing of confetti and supports the staff's annoyance as he says 'this is England, not India'.
Footage of the incident, shot during a showing of Hari Hara Veera Mallu at around 9pm, has been viewed more than 1.6 million times.
Saj, from Birmingham, said: "This is England, not India. You have to go with the rules of the cinema and what's accepted here. They threw confetti because their hero came on screen. In southern India this happens a lot. At the end the staff have to clean up so I was thinking about them.
"I thought it was quite annoying. It shouldn't be happening and it should be stopped. I told the staff they threw the confetti and about four of them stopped the movie and asked them why they're doing it.
"They thought there was nothing wrong with it. They should have more sense. People were throwing it in the first three rows. Around seven people so it was a lot to clean up. It's not fair.
Sanj, who visits the Cineworld cinema five times per week, says he's since been banned because he's refused to delete footage of the incident from TikTok.
A second said: "People need to realise that Cineworld shows the South Asian films LATE AT NIGHT and it's usually the last film to come out. Imagine having to clean this up at nearly midnight."
A third added: "This looks like a really bad comedy film."
