It divided critics at the time of its release.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies ...

A movie theatre that bore witness to Afghanistan's modern history - from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers - has ...