While Twitter was abuzz with rumours about the iconic Eros Theatre in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/churchgate--articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Churchgate</a> being pulled down, BMC officials on Saturday told mid-day that the building was only undergoing restoration.&nbsp;
Eros Theatres stopped operations in 2017, following in the fate of many single screen cinema halls in the city.&nbsp;
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When contacted, Aparna Bhatte, deputy municipal architect of BMC, said, &nbsp;&ldquo;As per my knowledge, the building is not being pulled down. It&rsquo;s undergoing repairs and restoration since 2018-19.&rdquo;
On Saturday, following rumours about the building being torn down to make way for a mall, social &nbsp;media users began to shares their memories of visiting the iconic south Mumbai theatre. Filmmakers Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and Apurva Asrani, and comedian-actor Vir Das were among those who took to Twitter.&nbsp;
Speaking with mid-day, a BMC official said: &ldquo;Are those tweeting photos and spreading rumours even taking any effort to confirm what&rsquo;s happening? One tweet follows another, and people just blindly follow these without any confirmation.&rdquo;

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