Savoy Cinema, Colombo | |
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General information | |
Status | Operating |
Location | Wellawatte, Colombo |
Address | Galle Road, Wellawatte |
Country | Sri Lanka |
Coordinates | 6°52′41.88″N79°51′28.45″E / 6.8783000°N 79.8579028°E |
Opened | August 1949 |
Owner | EAP Films and Theatres Private Limited |
Website | |
EAP Films |
Savoy Cinema, Colombo also known as Savoy 3D Cinema and Savoy 2 is a prominent cinema in Sri Lanka located on Galle Road in Wellawatte, Colombo, just near the old Dutch canal. [1] [2] The building is owned and run by EAP Films and Theatres Private Limited. [3] [4] The theatre generally have premiere releases in four languages including English, Sinhala, Tamil and Hindi languages. [5]
The cinema opened in August 1949 with the premiere of The Jolson Story . It was initially owned and operated by C. V. de Silva, who named it after the Savoy Theatre in London. The original building had a small bookshop in the foyer and a number of shops that faced Galle Road, including a clothes shop and the Savoy Emporium, which dealt in medicines and groceries.