had landed on the cables. There was darkness and silence everywhere. After a while two persons in the audience started a conversation.
B Read the following conversation and fill in the blanks with appropriate verb forms ie., past perfect / simple past.Sarath : Oh! What ____________ (happen)? Everything __________ (be) disturbed
before the play ____________ (come) to an end.
Bharath : Damn it! The play ____________ (be) very interesting. Someone on the
stage ___________ (do) something when the hero __________ (throw)
him off.
Sarath : I too _________ (see) it. It was the comedian. The hero _________ (hurl)
him since he ______________ (do) a mischievous thing.
Bharath : How disgusting! I _______________ (pay) one hundred rupees before I
___________ (enter) this theatre. Everything has become a chaos.
Sarath : Where ________________ (be) the director? Had he ___________ (try)
to set things right before the audience _______________ (start) leaving,
it would have been nice.
Bharath : The electrician ___________ (restore) the power before the audience
________________ (leave). Thank God! At last the play resumed.
The Indian film industry has witnessed sweeping changes in the past hundred years. It started of with mute (mooki) films . Even then, people liked this new form of entertainment.There was several intervals in a film show because of a single projector. Later, thetechnological changes made a talkie films possible. A theatre of those days is like a rice mill. This type of theatre were called 'Touring Talkies'. But these didn't tour. There were bamboo screens to served the purpose of walls of the modern theatre. ‘Cut Shows’ were a luxury of those days. Have you ever watch them Now, the modern theatres is completely different. Multiplexes with dts, 3D and 4D are a present reality.