Not only booking tickets, the audience can also book their seats well in advance. For now, the process would allow a person to book the ticket, but pay for it half an hour before the play begins at the theatre. There would be no usage of credit cards.

However, if the person fails to pay for the booked ticket on time, it will be sold to any other patron.

"We are working out the details of the programme and are currently consulting firms offering such services. The programme should materialise by October this year. If the programme is successful, then we will check the feasibility of introducing credit cards," said Mahesh Rajderkar, manager of Gadkari Rangayatan.

Theatre goers have welcomed the TMC move. "The initiative is good for working people like us who find it difficult to make two trips to the theatre — first for booking the ticket and then for watching the drama. In case of a good play, people who go for morning walk buy the front row tickets and when the counter opens others get tickets on the back rows," says Dipali Chumble, a working women and resident of Kalwa.