You can now book tickets to movies being screened in FAME Cinemas by calling 505 3263 from any GSM phone.
Calling this number will take you to an an interactive voice based system that helps you to choose the movie, the show timing and the number of tickets required. A three-step process helps you to make the payment through credit card and receive an SMS confirming the booking. You can collect the tickets from the counter by showing the confirmation SMS and the Credit Card used for booking the ticket.
Soon a bar-code based ticketing solution where you get the tickets as a bar-code (via SMS) on your mobile screen, will be introduced. You’ll just need to visit the Kiosk, scan your bar-code, swipe your credit card and collect your ticket.
Shravan Shroff, Managing Director, Shringar Cinemas said, “It is our constant endeavour to improve and innovate every aspect of our theatres, in order to make it a truly distinctive experience. The early technology adopters are already enjoying the benefit of this service and we are already seeing Patrons enjoying this mobile ticketing experience. This service has been enabled across Fame Cinemas in Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Surat.”
The FAME Cinema voice based ticketing service using your mobile phone is managed by OnMobile. OnMobile manages the Voice application, real-time integration with Movie Ticketing systems and payment systems and Customer Care for Movie Patrons.
Mr. Balachandran Unni, Head-Mobile Commerce, OnMobile, said, “It gives us great pleasure to facilitate Fame Cinemas to launch innovative mobile services. We have successfully implemented an innovative Mobile Commerce product which enhances the booking experience for Fame Movie Patrons”.