Colors And Lights

Of late I have been on movie watching spree. It keeps happening with me. When I start watching movies I go on a spree otherwise for months I don’t watch them. Anyways the post is not about my movie watching After watching so many movies; there is my mind still craving for a good movie; a worth watch; with some substance. Isn’t it ironic ?

This feeling takes me to that ERA when hindi film industry suffered badly for good movies. Remember those days of Nagma, Arman kohli, Ayesha Jhulka, Ayub Khan etc. etc. ? The worst part I have seen most of movies of that time. ( so much waste of time and money , I know !! :-|) Prem Quaidi, Aayi milan ki Raat, Sainik, Meera ka Mohan , Yaara Dildaara , Vansh, Jeet so and so forth.  The list is too long.  The industry lacked a good breed of actors , scripts, technics and everything else was bad.  A few exceptional good songs otherwise music was also pathetic. I call them torture movies.

When recently I got a chance to watch “Bombay to Bangkok,Hastey -Hastey, Summer 2007, Aamir” I really felt the same thing. Leaving all other things apart, these movies lack a basic thing that they just don’t entertain you. I mean even if you make an effort to understand what is happening , you fail to. Forget that the script is strong enough to hook you to the movie.

It has been really a good long time since I watched some good movie. Guys suggest me some classics. May be I have forgotten that we have a good long list of classics as well.