Gone Hollywood, Bollywood Theater in Queens Still Struggles "This is my exercise," said Somasundaram Gunasegaram "as he scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the cramped projection booth in the Jackson Heights Cinema, a tired old movie house on 82nd Street just off Roosevelt Avenue in Queens," Corey Kilgannon writes in The New York Times. Mr. Gunasegaram (pronounced gun-a-SAH-ga-ram) "stood at one projector - the size of a refrigerator and a half-century old - and inspected the film: "The Avengers," in English with Spanish subtitles," Mr. Kilgannon writes. But this is supposed to be a "story about a Bollywood cinema impresario," what's with the American movie? Mr. Kilgannon writes. There isn't even an Indian title listed on the marquee. Mr. Gunasegaram, 52, known to his friends as Sagar, "was once a prominent cinema owner among South Asian immigrants in New York City," he writes. After immigrating to New York from Sri Lanka in 1979, "he gained a following by renting neglected theaters all over the New York area and showing Indian films to give immigrants a cinematic taste of home." "People used to wait for two hours to get into my movies," he said. But things have changed, thanks to the proliferation of bootleg movies on DVD and the Web, as well as the increase in the number of art-film theaters and multiplexes that show Bollywood films. "When I started showing movies in New York, you might have five copies of a popular Bollywood film in all of America," said Mr. Gunasegaram, who lives in South Ozone Park, Queens. Now, you have 300 copies in this country. There's much more competition, but this is the only business I know.