PsuedoSarcasmo

youtube.com Ok, so let me get this straight! A filmmaker, who is the master of his craft, painstakingly makes a period saga and an epic. He puts his blood and soul in this! He ropes in two of the best actors in the country right now, Ranveer and Deepika, to play two most important characters. Ranveer plays Alauddin Khilji and Deepika plays Rani Padmawati… The movie is still not out… No one has seen it… But a group of fringe elements decides already that they are the sole protectors of the Rajput History! So, without seeing a single frame of the movie, they decide that it is distortion of facts and stage protests against it. Now I understand being protective of your culture. But being “ANTARYAAMI”… That’s another level altogether. How on earth does the KARNI SENA know that Bhansali has distorted facts? What facts are they referring to that they feel have been distorted? What is it that these people are trying to protect or hide? I wanted to...

youtube.com Remember the good old times when we bought tickets in “BLACK” from the goons near the theatres? Bigger the movie, higher the cost. The Rate of these tickets in black was sometimes even 100 times the actual cost! I still remember I bought the tickets for Rangeela back in 1995 for a freaking 400 Rs! The actual cost was Rs. 60 at the Eros theatre, Churchgate, Mumbai… At the age of 12, Rs 400 was a pretty huge amount back in 1995!! But those were the good old days! The single screen era. Every penny spent on the tickets was worth it… Cut to 2017… Gone are the days of single screen theatres. We now live in the age of multiplexes. 7 screens in a single theatre. And guess what, there is no black ticketing here. You know why? Because the cost of the tickets is freaking steep. I recently saw Golmaal 4 (Still wondering why), and that is when I decided to write this. I feel the people selling tickets in black those days were better movie critics. They knew exactly whi...