Normally, i watch a movie, appreciate it, may be watch again ( V for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky), discuss with friends (Mullholland Drive), inadvertently pick a dialogue or two ( Lucky Number Slevin), try to draw parallels (Dev D- Trainspotting), quiz about it (Sholay). Yet, i cant think of a time when i have written about a movie. Road,Movie then, is the first one to be so. Its not as if i watched the movie yesterday and was so impressed that i couldnt suppress the need to write about it. It been almost a week. While watching the movie, the deja vu started going round and round and round my head, until i clamped it to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabrel Garcia Marquez. However, it was Anas's question: What does the punctuation mark in the title of the movie mean? that enveloped me. Here are few of my interpretations: 1. Dev Benegal made English, August a decade back. May be the comma is his leit motif. 2. Road movie is a genre of movies which are structured such: hero on a journey,...
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