Tags: Theatre, Venue.
The Bambino Cinema is located in Saddar area of Karachi.It was built during the 1960s and inaugurated by President General Ayub Khan. It was the first cinema in Karachi to be equipped with 70mm screen and projection equipment and the first cinema in Pakistan with two balconies. The first film shown in this process was David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.It is often claimed that the funding for the Bambino cinema came from the Gambino crime family in New York.