Why Movies Do Not Get a Second Chance

Just a couple of days ago, I happen to see two movies that I had seen much earlier in the theatre-Life in a..Metro and Traffic Signal. When I had seen both of these movie for the first time in the theatre, I felt that they were bland. Life in a. ..Metro looked far-fetched, and Traffic Signal did not have a moving plot. It seemed like the story revolved round and round the traffic signal without going ahead. But incidentally, one of my friends had liked both of the films and since I appreciate his choices in life, I decided to give those movies a second look.

Boy! I was thrilled. The characterizations, the performances and the sensitive moments in both the films hit me. Both Traffic Signal and Life in a...Metro were unconventional by typical Bollywood standards, which is why I may not have liked them, the first time around. Both Anurag Basu(Life in a…Metro) and Madhur Bhandarkar(Traffic Signal) touched subjects that were not dealt before. They handled the complexities of various characters in their respective films with deftness.

As I am writing this post, I am listening to the song “Rangeela Re” from Rangeela. What is the similarity between A.R.Rahman’s tracks and a bottle of beer? Both taste weird in the beginning but later you get hooked. Movies ain’t that lucky. People pass their verdict about a movie, before the curtains drop. Cinema doesn’t usually get a second helping. If the audience didnt like it, they dint like it…period. Most of them never go back to it. But then, some movies are lucky when they still do a turn-around and rise from almost nothing to everything. Remember Sholay?