movie goers

heh.. thats what we used to call ourselves... some 5 yrs back now....
when me sabby n vikku used to go to cine magic and watch all the films that released...

cine magic was this safe heaven that played all the new english films that'd release.. in some obscure show.. and there'd always be tickets.. life was good then..

now after all these yrs.. only me n sabby r left here.. n we also barely manage to scramble thru sometime for these movies... god bless these holi-days...

anyway.. today after requiem for a dream.. i went for Dansh ... dansh means sting.. pretty intriguin.. i didn't know that.. anyway.. dansh is about the militancy that happened in Mrizoram in 1980's before it was declared a seperate state.. their fighting for liberation and stuff like that.. must see in a lot of ways..

when it had jst about started.. or rather all along i had a fair idea it would be different.. most people would classify these films as bad.. and yet i try and see as many of them as i can help myself to...

some glaring examples always come to mind. .some were exceptionally good.. some were exceptionally bad... like hazaron khwahisheh aisi... chai pani... white noise... dhoop.. hyderabad blues.. (which in a lot of ways started this trend)

all of these films.. almost all of them.. at some point of time seem glaringly bad.. are very unprofessional or not slick enough.. but each one of them.. has a message.. a reason for them to be there... there is a clear cut purpose why the person made that film.. and i think that usually is reason enough to make me want to go to a theatre...

i'd much rather see a million more such films than a technical marvel which had no reason to be made in the first place...

what i learnt from this film... it taught me or showed.. that a mob.. or a group of people have no identity of the people left.. they are no longer representing the beliefs even, that these people stand for.. a mob comes to life has an identity of its own and only the mob can be held responsible or accountable for the actions.. the group of individuals have almost nothing in common with the mob...

maybe after a healthy enough dosage of these i have lost the ability to appreciate the fine qualities or refinments in a film..