Inspired by popular Kollywood hits, the newly renovated Cine Suvai gives the city its first taste of sushi, iconic movie scenes and even a train sipping selfies.
Inspired by popular Kollywood hits, the newly renovated Cine Suvai gives the city its first taste of sushi, iconic movie scenes and even a train sipping selfies.
For every foodie and lover of Tamil movies, Cine Suvai on Tamil Sangam Marg is the right place. And if you are on the trip for the first time, interesting elements of Kollywood movies from 1960 to 2022 will fill you up, even though the menu has more than 200 items from cuisines like Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Continental, Italian. , American and Punjabi.
The 300-seater setting is inspired by old Art Deco theatres. “It took us 15 months of hard work to recreate Instagrammable cinema during the second wave of the pandemic,” says Vichitra Rajsingh, CEO, Cine Suvai. The front of the restaurant has billboards similar to the film’s poster and if present it belongs to Vijay. beast Pop Up, Kamal Haasan Vikram is next.
Inside stands Rajinikanth’s famous taxi ‘Lakshmi’ Padikadhavan, A black and yellow vintage Fiat Padmini salvaged from a scrapyard and repurposed for diners of four; A pink ambassador of Siddhartha Jill Jung Jugo Modified with two tables and a selfie-side; Small casino poker table, with a sports bike hanging from the ceiling above, to recreate Ajith Mangatha; A section inspired by Kamal Haasan’s eighties disco with multicolored seats, disco balls and lights that look like a vinyl record; and a selfie booth with an auto that recreates the bow Mari.
Iconic film scenes in parks, rain and rural environments have been recreated in different sections. The piece de resistance is a 70 feet tall train coach, called Vichitra, was a nightmare to set up. An auctioned railway coach was cut into two pieces and taken to Madurai, as no trailer was available for a long time. It was refurbished by welding the two pieces, insulating the ceiling and walls, installing floor boards, and paneling it into an air-conditioned dining space for 70.
The ambiance of the train is replete with details such as emergency chain, fans, mirrors, coach number and destination, sleepers with luggage on upper steel shelves and windows mounted monitors playing landscape footage from the train’s journey. “The reason I got a real train coach is because many iconic Tamil films have been shot in trains. from Shivaji Ganesan thilana mohanmbali for Madhavan alaipayuthey and the sun varanam aiyaramiThe interior of the coach is filled with dialogues from Tamil cinema, which have been rewritten to connect with the food,” explains Vichitra.
S Ramesh, who is here on his fourth visit since the restaurant reopened two months ago, jokes, “The food is better than the food you get on the real train.”
While feasting on the diverse colors of the colorful Cine Suvai Junction, designed as a giant railway platform, I take a table inside the train and order the sushi offered for the first time ever for Madurai. Still, the unnoticeable cinema goes to the details: a tissue box designed like a clap board and a box billed as a cinema reel; The waiter dressed as Nesamani of Rajinikanth, Dhanush or Vadivel, and the waitress dressed as Saroja Devi. Even the hand-washing area resembles an actor’s vanity room with bulb-lined mirrors. Cine Suvai has created an impressive decor and menu that needs to be experienced
Open on all days from noon to 11am.