![]() When you pay Rs 25,000 to book an entire theatre and watch Amitabh Bachchan's famous swagger in Trishul, you'll damn well do as you please. And her opportunistic future husband Amol Palekar jumps in to comfort her.Ĭinema's great therapeutic power is realised in a quiet scene of Talaash where parents mourning the passing away of their only kid go on a rare movie date.Īamir Khan's unmoved response to the silliness of Rohit Shetty's Golmaal cannot help but marvel at Rani Mukerji's unbridled laughter over the same, underscoring their distinctly different ways of coping with the same tragedy. We get a glimpse of it when she bursts into tears during a soppy scene at the movies. Inspired by the life of Marathi actress Hansa Wadkar, Shyam Benegal's Bhumika keenly profiles Smita Patil's on and off screen emotions. What ensues is a mad stampede in one of the underworld drama's most nail-biting sequence. In Satya, a hall full of viewers finish a Border screening only to be subjected to a police raid as a means to nab Chakravarthy accompanying an unsuspecting Urmila on a movie date. Varma has created some fine moments of terror and thrills inside the theatre. If the nightmare of Raat isn't creepy enough, Ram Gopal Varma adds to the fearsome element by throwing in a battery of ghosts to torment Urmila Matondkar inside an empty movie hall. ![]() Imagine the horror everyone watching it in the theatre must have felt back then. One of them is when Revathy, enjoying a movie in the company of friends, suddenly discovers she's all alone in an empty theatre. Two of its most memorable moments happen inside a theatre - one, where Aamir Khan's poor theatre etiquette embarrasses Urmila Matondkar, and another where she reads his declaration of romance and abandons the premiere of her grand Bollywood debut to hunt him down. Both the men in her life are about movies - a superstar and a scalper. Rangeela centres on a middle class girl's celluloid aspirations. While Deepika Padukone declares the value of Ek chutki sindoor on screen, her biggest fans Shah Rukh Khan and Shreyas Talpade cheer from the side-lines evoking Manoj Kumar's wrath on screen and off it in this zany Farah Khan style ode to showbiz. Saif and Sonali Kulkarni's imagination runs riot (and retro) prompting the fabulous Woh Ladki Hain Kahan medley as the lines between reel and real are blurred and they realise their off screen happily-ever-after. (Incidentally, also the title of a movie he starred in). ![]() ![]() Movies provide an escape from reality, Saif Ali Khan once told. ![]()
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