To begin with what would u think of a 4 year old girl who sat in her neighbours place watching Mani Ratnam s "anjali" for 3 hours without moving an inch and weeping throughout!! (Mind u it was in a language i dint even understand n in an age wen I couldn't read subtitles ) Well that was me :-D May be thats wen my love for cinema was born.
I vividly remember that as a child whichever movie I saw I wud pretend that I am one of the characters and fantasise behaving like tht character in my head. That world in which you could be so much more and different than the real world ,where you are limited to be someone attracted me instinctively. The journey of 3 hours in a dark room to a world which doesn't belong to me thrills me even today. But there are bigger lessons cinema has taught me. Be it empathy, courage, perseverance or just an emotional high, the world of movies has been my escapade, my teacher, my love and what not. I believe world is too big and our time is too short to explore everything I would want to. Cinema makes al that possible. I always say to my loved ones that if I am on my death bed , just show me a good movie and my life wil extend itself automatically. True that!
Now that's some wish on the death bed! ;) Well, movies are life captured on screen and the better it's done the more magical it becomes! :) And I believe movies have that certain power to touch and awaken those dormant, subconscious beliefs of ours which we ourselves may not have been aware of earlier... And in that way, they make us a li'l more aware of ourselves..
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!! You actually have expressed what I was kind of struggling to express beautifully :-)
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