August 14, 2009 
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The New Revolution in Movie Ticket Booking!!!
Movie Ticket Booking has been simplified like never before!!! Your favourite movie is now just an SMS away!!
The SMS Balcony movie ticket booking system started from 13th of August, 2009.
This service shall now be available to the Technopark community and across various cities in Kerala. We are currently launching the product in select theatres across Trivandrum, and shall be partnering with other theatres and Mobile Operators very soon (Currently partnered with Vodafone only).
Please find the list of theatres where the service is currently available near Trivandrum:
1. Athulya – S.L. Theatre
2. Anjali – S. L. Theatre
3. Krishna Theatre – Kazhakuttom
4. Dreams – Attingal
5. Gowri – Attingal
Movie Ticket Booking is now at your finger tips. All you have to do is send a simple SMS to 52627. For details on booking formats or other queries, please feel free to visit our website at www.smsbalcony.com or call us at 9946452627. We have a 24 X 7 Helpdesk to cater to your queries, and our executives will be more than glad to assist you.
Expecting your whole-hearted support and patronage to make this product a success!!!
Reserve movie seats by sending an SMS in the prescribed format to 52627 from any Vodafone* number. Book via SMS, get your booking code and reach a few minutes early to buy your tickets, showing your booking code & mobile number.
With SMS balcony, you can book up to 4 seats in a single SMS. One could book until 45 minutes before the show and up to 3 days in advance. Apart from movie booking, other services include listing of all the movies in the town, seat availability check, town code search and cancelling the tickets. You could avail this services for just Rs5/SMS.
To book a movie from Vodafone just SMS to 52627 in the format below:
Book+no of seats <space>towncode+theatrename <space>showcode<space>date
Eg; To book 4 seats in Trivandrum Athulya theatre for first show on 14th August, the format is:
BOOK4 TVMathulya FS 14
For seat availability
seats<space>towncode<space>showcode<space>date
Eg; To find seats available in Trivandrum for second show on 14th August, the format is
Seats TVM SS 14
For movie search
movies<space>towncode<space>showcode<space>date
Eg; To find the list of movies in Trivandrum for noon show on 14th August, the format is
Movies TVM NS 14
The showcodes are MS, NS, MT, FS, and SS for Morning Show, Noon Show, Matinee, First Show and Second Show respectively
To check out the town codes of the towns of Kerala
towncode<space>townname
Eg; To find the town code of Trivandrum, the format is
Towncode TrivandrumWW
For more details and booking formats, send "BALCONY" to 52627 or visit www.smsbalcony.com or call us at 9946452627
(*Currently available for Vodafone users. Coming soon on other operators)
Brought to you by Experion Technologies, Technopark, Trivandrum.
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