Since the day we shifted to our new house (which was during IPL) I was waiting to watch some nice entertaining movie. Finally yesterday we (hubby dear and me) decided to watch Houseful in-spite of all the negative feedback.
So at 10:20 pm we reached theater assuming that we’ll get seats (who wouldn’t considering that we have never watched any movie in that theater with more than 15 people).anyways…. the booking guy very happily informed us ‘Sir Housefull to Housefull hai’ so hopeless me asked hubby dear to buy tickets for 11:15 show .Being the movie buff I am I was all game to sacrifice my precious sleep, and I noticed it was not just me but at least 20-30 kids.
So all keyed up I enter this theater and comes the first scene……….. a pathetic looking AK walking as if he has been stung by bee or worse he has finally realized that his time in this industry is over…and then starts painful(very) torture for 2 hrs 40 mins.
Never in my life have I waited for a movie to get over (not even phoonk 2) but this time I did. But what surprised or should I say shocked me most was the kind of cinema kids are being exposed to. I remember as a kid many movies were forbidden for us because ‘Vo bachoo ke layak nahi thi”…. Watching late night movie was complete NO NO . My parents use to ensure that we watch all the ‘right’ kind of movies…..I think standards to define that are really low now.
Considering the profound effect cinema has on us isn’t it wise to use it prudently. In our industry there can only be two aspects of movie quality and quantity. When I say quality I mean content with sense of direction…screenplay…acting. While quantity means attributes to generate revenue ignoring everything and anything else. Now these two sets have nothing in common and no movie lies between the two(not in my times).
We are yet to break that barrier that to merge the two sets. What we need now is something meaningful but at the same time entertaining. When I say meaningful I don’t mean some hard hitting serious kindda movie..but something that makes some sagacity…has humor in the correct sense and not non sense.
Anyways...hopefully I will have better luck next time….Ciao…….
So at 10:20 pm we reached theater assuming that we’ll get seats (who wouldn’t considering that we have never watched any movie in that theater with more than 15 people).anyways…. the booking guy very happily informed us ‘Sir Housefull to Housefull hai’ so hopeless me asked hubby dear to buy tickets for 11:15 show .Being the movie buff I am I was all game to sacrifice my precious sleep, and I noticed it was not just me but at least 20-30 kids.
So all keyed up I enter this theater and comes the first scene……….. a pathetic looking AK walking as if he has been stung by bee or worse he has finally realized that his time in this industry is over…and then starts painful(very) torture for 2 hrs 40 mins.
Never in my life have I waited for a movie to get over (not even phoonk 2) but this time I did. But what surprised or should I say shocked me most was the kind of cinema kids are being exposed to. I remember as a kid many movies were forbidden for us because ‘Vo bachoo ke layak nahi thi”…. Watching late night movie was complete NO NO . My parents use to ensure that we watch all the ‘right’ kind of movies…..I think standards to define that are really low now.
Considering the profound effect cinema has on us isn’t it wise to use it prudently. In our industry there can only be two aspects of movie quality and quantity. When I say quality I mean content with sense of direction…screenplay…acting. While quantity means attributes to generate revenue ignoring everything and anything else. Now these two sets have nothing in common and no movie lies between the two(not in my times).
We are yet to break that barrier that to merge the two sets. What we need now is something meaningful but at the same time entertaining. When I say meaningful I don’t mean some hard hitting serious kindda movie..but something that makes some sagacity…has humor in the correct sense and not non sense.
Anyways...hopefully I will have better luck next time….Ciao…….
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