Watching Movies...

I started this blog, and I named it Surajfilms, mainly because films are my line of work and also the name was easily available. I do not have much experience in writing or managing a blog, so please, whoever reads my posts, please, do let me know, whether the things I write here, are interesting... and also tips or suggestions to improve and make the whole process enjoyable.

I have given a title of "watching movies" to this post. I moved from Bombay to Trivandrum last February. Trivandrum is a nice town... even though, both, me and my wife, Lakshmi, were a bit apprehensive about moving over to TVM, we have now adjusted and are now enjoying our stay here. Both of us have put on weight, which is a good sign of prosperity but on the health side, not great. One of our New Year resolutions is to reduce it... 

The one thing that we are not yet able to do really well is to enjoy watching movies. Both of us are big movie watchers and we do try and see atleast two films a week. We still continue that, except that our choices are limited here. I should say, I have been spoilt by the multiplexes at Chennai and Bombay and so not yet able to digest the bad projection, the terrible sound, those are technical... more than that, its the behaviour of people that I cannot yet come to terms with. There is no system of switching off the lights once the movie starts. All the theatres here take atleast 15 min into the film to do that. There is no habit of playing the end credits. A comment about the paying public... Talking on a cell phone and messaging, this is even more irritating, because the LCD display is so disturbing to the eye. Silly, irritating comments and lot of chatter. All these do make watching movies a slight boring experience.

I will not say that all across multiplexes all these above points work, but personally for me, i look forward to seeing films at Satyam or Escape at Chennai and over all the multiplexes in Bombay. Small towns across India have multiplexes, why is Kerala only denied that? Finally Ernakulam got one – Cinemax, but I don’t know whether it’s the weather here, but it’s no better than any other theatre, except for switching off lights at the beginning. Everything else is similar and you also have to pay 150 for it. It’s not worth that amount of money. I will not say that multiplex is the solution, but I have seen across other towns that Multiplex helped change the attitude of small theatres as well.

I do write reviews of all movies that I see and I hope to do it through this post. For me, the best 3 movies of last year that I watched across all languages are –

Inception

Toystory 3

Buitiful

More about the best movies and watching lists and much more, in later posts...

Even though I did name this surajfilms and I am very much interested in that, I would be really happy if we get a good deal of other topics and discussions and have fun doing it. I too will write about whatever I think fit sharing. So, like I wrote at the beginning, please feel free to let me know whether what I am putting across is enjoyable and let’s have fun...

WE are into a new year, a new decade and I repeat from my first post, I wish everyone who reads this and also for the world in general a great year full of happiness and fun. 

Regards and cheers

Suraj