Memory triggers

the smell of freshly laundered clothes

of rain on earth

of wheat on flame

of flowers in bloom

of babies

of petrol

of temples

of festival

of home...

reminds me of home

Movie-thon

Watching multiple movies is an utterly disorienting experience, people say a person can start relating to the story line and get totally absorbed in the web that the director is trying to weave, but watching a historic political drama after a cult action movie to be followed up with an animation has left me feeling like a multiplex. Ironically i paid 5 grands to get a new speakers for my laptop. Now - that's an expensive movie ticket!

What amazes me though, is the elan with which i was able to switch between these movies without flinching. Its 3 a.m. and my nocturnal multitasking abilities are at a all time high. I should apply to the censor board. Rest assured id be the hardest and most efficient working member of the group. Also, id ensure that the creative leverages of the movie director would be exploited to the hilt - so would the grossly overpaid and untalented leading ladies. 

People watching movies can be categorised into 4 major categories

One are the early adopters: People who get excited if they approach within 3 kms of a movie theatre and get goose bumps when they see the fox searchlight

Two are the early majority - the folks who get excited when they talk to any of the category ones and get feedback on the movie that they have just been exposed to.

Three make up the strength of the people, they disregard the Ones as non discerning folks who have ample time on their hands and hold themselves in higher esteem saying "I wont just go and watch any movie because of the marketing hoopla that the promoters have created - I'm more discerning!" Discerning here would mean taking opinions of the Twos. 

Fours just watch it on the pirated DVDs

I would place myself at 3 and a half. Awww...cmon, you would too but you wont admit it here.

Point being - watching movies should be an invigorating experience like an orgasm. At the end of it you cant come away feeling used and paying for it. 

I would like to give a special mention to a certain brand of movies that take you there and then abandon you 

As a child my imagination would be fired up watching some of the most awesome movies coming out of Hollywood and Bollywood. I remember not being able to sleep after watching Jurassic park because i thought every rumble of creak outside my room was a dinosaur trying to break in. 

Also, cumulonimbus clouds gave me the heebie jeebies for a while after watching Independence day. Id used to imagine a humongous saucer ship coming out of them. 

I have practised speaking like THE Don Corleone and stopped only after people around me made me an offer i could not refuse...

Ive wanted to talk like Agent Smith, get my ass kicked by Trinity and fly like Neo and occasional make out with Monica Belluci.

Now a days, i try firing up my imagination after a Tomb Raider movie - and believe me, its not difficult.

Movies are, have been and will be a magical place to go to for and hour or two.