This month, Indian Cinema has completed 100 years of being awesome! 100 years ago someone picked up a camera and shot a scene and started the magic that we now call Bollywood! That is so amazing !!

So my friend Sharat suggested using that theme in my next doodle. As much as I love the idea, it was really not possible to fit 100 years of awesomeness in one page and in one day. So keeping that as a side project, I decided to pay tribute to my favorite Bollywood movie. 

For many, considering the above, the immediate movies that come to mind are Sholay, Mother India, some Amitabh movie etc. With all due respect to these brilliant films, I do not connect with any of them. They are amazing to watch, marvel, get nostalgic, entertain..but I do not emotionally connect to any of them. Maybe because when they came out, I was too young to understand Cinema.

But I remember walking out of the theater after watching this particular movie..for the first time I was quiet. I didn't have an opinion..I couldn't make out what my mind was wondering..and I didn't say much till I got home. I knew I enjoyed the movie..but I didn't know why I was at a loss for words. 

It took a few days for the movie to sink in. I realized what was happening. For the first time I connected with a movie..I felt the emotions..I understood what the characters are doing and why they are doing it..I had paid attention to the cinematography..the dialogues..the acting..and I loved every bit of it. Its definitely not the best out there..but for me it is..because for the first time I was forced to experience the WHOLE movie.

Ever since, I have watched the movie a gazillion times (there was a phase when I watched it EVERYDAY for a few weeks). And whenever the movie plays, I'm the annoying friend who says the dialogues along with the movie. It still gives me goosebumps!

Well done Farhan Akhtar :)