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| Love for everything associated with films |
I am talking about my passionate love affair with films of course :) Being a Scorpion it is quite natural for me to be passionate about something....................and ESPECIALY to films which is a medium that run high on Passion.
So, like most of you out there I also fell for the irresistible charm of this medium which in my opinion is one of the greatest inventions by human beings to escape from our daily worries, to live with our fantacies, to understand cultures.......you can keep adding onto the list. Coming from a conservative middle class family where the remote control of TV almost always rest in the hands of elders and going to theaters was as rare as finding an honest beurocrat in a government office, the urge to watch more and find out more was there from childhood. It began with curiosity...developed into appreciation...and is a passion now. Although almost completely ignorant about the technicalities of Cinema, as in the case of any true film buff, it has never stopped me from enjoying/ understanding/ appeciating a good piece of work. Eventhough I didn't get much opportunities to watch as many movies as I would have loved to watch in my childhood, I made up for it when I started living on my own by collecting as many movies as I could [in as many genres, countries and languages] and crazily reading about anything that I could get. I particularly like Bollywood, Hollywood & French movies.
Everything about films - its glits, glamour, monetory side, political implications, cultural aspects - attaracts me. Before starting with a film I try to collect the basic plot line then just live with the characters & plot for the whole running time. Two main factors that decide my picking of movies are Actors & Genre. As a matter of fact, I tend to watch a movie irrespective of the critical/box office reports if it belongs to one of my favourite actors/genre. Being a true blue film fan I watch all genres with equal enthuciasm. But my favourite genres are: Epics, Dramas, Western, Fantacy, Mystery & Thriller. I somehow am not much enthuciastic about Sci-Fi, War & comedy films (but I do watch them sometimes). As for actors.....my love for them equals my love for their work. I appreciate Actors even more than the Directors (eventhoug I fully agree with the fact that ultimately a film is the baby of a Director) since film is a visual media and it is the Actor or more correctly the Character we see through him/her that we engage with during the course of time. Also the high amount of uncertainty surrounding their career, their life style, their physical features, their magnetism, their influence on public, their trend setting etc hook me to them. Some of my favourite actors are: Al Pacino, Alain Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Client Eastwood, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman etc from Hollywood and Amitabh Bachan, Naseeruddin Shah, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Vidhya Balan, Nargis Dutt etc from Bollywood.
I hope to interact, share thoughts and get information about some good movies from you all.......Thus starting and dedicating this blog For the Love of Films :)
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