Alam Ara, India’s first talkie, was premiered in march 1931 at the Majestic Cinema, JBS Road, Girgaon, Mumbai. It has been closed for more than four decades now. It has been replaced with a grey, 12 storey commercial building. Majestic was  built in the late 1920s by Ardeshir Irani who produced and directed Alam Ara. The threatre was equipped with special sound equipmen1 to screen a talkie. Basant ( 1942 ) ran for record 50 weeks at Majestic.It featured Madhubala as a child star. On Sundays, Majestic screened. Hollywood classics. The theatre shut in the 1960s. Anmol Ghadi ( 1946 ) musical was screened here.