At one time, Rangpur boasted several cinema halls, including Shapla Talkies, Dorodi Hall, Oriental, Lakshmi Talkies, Noor Mahal and China Talkies. Over the years, they closed one after another, with Shapla Talkies becoming the latest—and effectively the last—to shut its doors, bringing the city's long chapter of traditional single-screen cinema to an end.