The Bambino Cinema, is located in Saddar area of Karachi.

[1] The Bambino Cinema was built in the 1960s as the first cinema in Pakistan with a double balcony seating and 70 mm film screen and projection equipment.

[2] It was inaugurated by President Ayub Khan in 1968.

[3] During the 1970s, when the Pakistani film industry was in its boom, a mini-cinema Scala was built on its first floor.

The cinema is also famous because it was built by Hakim Ali Zardari,[4] father of Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, who sold it later.