Movies
How many ‘cult’ movies have you seen? Movies that created a trend when they were released? Here’s a list of those I never did get around to seeing, perhaps : -Because I did not have the patience to stand in long queues. Yes, they did exist in the eighties and nineties. Have you ever experienced the fun of going to a movie hall and finding a board saying’ Balcony full’, or, just ‘House Full’? There were some halls in Baroda where hardly 50% of the tickets used to be sold at the counter- everyone was busy making hay while the sun shone- and, in some cases, the counter used to open for 10 minutes only. In such cases, we would know immediately that we had to visit the moongfaliwaala’s larri(groundnut sellers stall), or, the cycle/scooter parking area or the small restaurant snuggled away in the back of the theatre(depending on which theatre we were in) or just simply stand looking confused and disturbed till someone came shouting ‘paanch ka dus, dus ka bees’(Rs 5 ticket for Rs 10, Rs 10 ti...