Arcot Narrain Swamy Mudaliar was a contractor who built many buildings in Bengaluru including the Attara Kacheri (the present premises of the Karnataka High Court).

[2] They came back and constructed Plaza theatre in the year 1936 modeling it after the Piccadilly Circus in London.

Movies that have been screened here include Hans Christian Andersen, The Court Jester, Artists and Models and The Ten Commandments.

A mining investor from Ballari purchased this property and wanted to build a shopping mall in its place.

The land has since been acquired for the Bangalore Metro project and will house the Plaza theatre station on the East-West Corridor route.