Movies, Music and Me :)

This post is dedicated to a very important and special person in my life who has taught me many many things. Re-introducing me to the world of movies and music is just one of them.
Music is, I guess, something which everyone is associated with in their lives. To me, music is like food for the soul. I grew up playing Antakshari. This one game is so cool it just increases your knowledge bank of songs. Thanks to this, I know almost all the famous 80's, 90's Hindi songs with correct lyrics :D and the funny thing about this game is the song database doesn't get updated as new songs get released. We keep singing the same old songs no matter when we play this game!!
I never was good at singing but somehow managed to be part of the singing group in school and would take part in all the music competitions back then. But i never thought of myself as a good singer. But music always soothed me.
Around high school time, I started listening to old hindi songs. Till then, my notion was old songs are old and boring. Boo. But i started off with Kishore Kumar. Fell in love with the lyrics and melody of these songs. All of them were so simple, beautiful and yet so touching. Songs to suit all moods, all occasions. I still like to listen to all these songs whenever I get bored of the new stupid Hindi songs. Next I listened to Rafi. And finally Mukesh. My favorite song of Mukesh is "Jis Gali mein tera ghar na ho saajna"- a very very beautiful song. There is another beautiful Mukesh song which I felt was very boring and just fast forwarded. It's called "Koi jab tumhara hriday tod de". Well, I had this friend in class 11 who was a huge Mukesh fan. She hummed this song once. And then I came home and actually listend to this song and fell in love with the lyrics! It is a super slow song but a very beautiful song indeed.
After this came the normal, then new Hindi songs. I listened and loved Hum Aapke Hain Kaun songs. Listened to the cassette a million times, so much so that the tape got ruined! Next came DDLJ, DTPH etc. etc.. There would be days when I would do nothing other than listening to these songs, dancing to them and learning the lyrics. Ah! The simple joys :)
Then came the days of Hindi music albums. There were songs of Shaan, Sagarika, Lucky Ali, remix songs. I grew up listening to these songs. They were all fun. I know so many of those songs till this day by heart. Lol. :D
Music has been a part of my life forever but I never did go beyond Bollywood music. I still like listening to the Hindi songs, I enjoy them too just to dance around and hum. For me, English songs were totally out of question. Metal, rock-oh no too loud for me! This was the perception I had about it. But recently, this very important person of my life(whom I have dedicated the post to) showed me where the real music is!! Rock music need not necessarily mean noise. Rock is not noise. Yes, it is not. All you folks out there who have ruled out rock music as noise, please think again! I've been listening to a little bit of this for sometime now. And I am so in love with it. It is healing, soothing and so beautiful. Everything that you want and need, these songs give you. I am still exploring the world of this music. But it is something I certainly want to keep with me for the rest of my life.:) I'll write more about this in my upcoming posts. How it keeps me going, about my favorite songs and all that. :)
Next, let's talk about movies. Am I really passionate about movies? Ardent movie watcher? I just watch a movie for the fun of it. Watch it and enjoy it. That's it. I've not watched many famous movies such as Sholay(yes i haven't watched it!!!), Amar Akbar Anthony.
During school days, I've just watched very few movies in the theatre and almost all those theatre visits have been memorable.
As a kid, I went to watch this kannada movie, i think it was Akasmika. My dad had this super cool calculator watch with lights on it. I loved that watch. I was sitting on my dad's lap in the movie and playing with the watch. The light in the watch amazed me as a kid. And i played with it so much the watch got spoilt :D My dad still misses that calculator watch of his! I'll get you a calculator watch someday Dad. :)
Another movie I remember well is Kaho Na Pyar Hain. I was in high school( don't remember which class) The hero and heroine were new. I went with my sisters to Sagar theatre in Majestic to watch it. I knew nothing about the movie but just knew it had just released that week. I was so super happy after it got over! As it happened with thousand other people, I too fell in love with Hritik Roshan :D and Amisha Patel became my then favorite actress. :D
The next movie is Taal. This is the first movie I watched more than once on the big screen, and I think the only movie I've watched 3 times properly. The first time I went for this movie with my Mom and her best friend and her daughter. I just loved Aishwarya Rai in the movie. And the songs, I love all the songs. The beautiful scenery, the stupid predictable story. I liked all of it. I don't remember when i watched it the second time. It was on small screen, maybe my cousin had borrowed the CD or something. So i watched it a second time then. I used to live in I.I.Sc. back then. In the campus, they have a small hall to screen movies. Usually, movies that were screened here were the ones that were superhits but screened long after their release. Incidentally, Taal was screened here too. My friends were all going for it, and I tagged along. :) Not a super great movie, but I will always talk about it because it's the only movie I've seen three times. :D
The next movie on the list is Spiderman. I think I was in class 10 or 11 when it released. I was watching it in the theatre. I was sitting in the theatre, the lights were off I guess. This noisy group made an entry and sat behind me. I was looking at them and I knew one of the girls in that group. She was this girl from my class in a different section. She sat behind me. We spoke formally and guess what this girl is my best friend now. Back then, I never for once imagine she'd be my best friend and so close to me. This incident really makes me smile and wonder how certain incidents become special and memorable even without you knowing they would be special!
I watched a million movies during college. Almost one movie a week. They were all just for the fun of it. But the only movie which I'd like to mention here from the long list of movies I watched would be Don. Why? Because this is the one and only movie I've watched "First Day First Show". I liked the movie, of course. More so, because I was watching it on the first day. :D
Finally, I think I should talk about this one movie before I conclude. The movie I am going to talk about now is Kites. I don't know the story of this movie even now. This was the first movie I watched with the person I've dedicated this post to. This person, is a movie lover, but not at all interested in Hindi movies anymore. So it was this movie which we went for together for the first time. The movie was so so stupid but it didn't matter to us. We were together, we were so happy. That's what mattered. And that's the reason why this movie will remain special to me and very very close to my heart.
I can see how all the movies that I've watched have been associated with the experience around watching the movie and not the movie itself. :D I have written about the incidents that cross my mind when I speak of movies.
I hear a lot about how wonderful an experience it is to just watch a movie and appreciate the beauty of it. I would love to do that. The list of movies that I want to watch is in the making. It is going to be a very very long list I am sure. And yes, it will be a nice journey-watching movies for the sake of the movie and enjoying that. :)