Movies - what do you remember about them

What do you remember most about the movies?
Story?
Acting?
Songs?
Dialogues?

Until and unless it is a dialogue like “Tumhara naam kya hai Basanti” or “Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi namumkin hai” I don’t think you remember either of the mentioned things. Some songs do stay in memory for long but not because of the movie.

So what is it that one remembers most about a movie? For me it’s the circumstances or the incidents leading to or during the movie. And as I think of it there are some which I remember instantly

‘Welcome’ starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif somehow tops the list. We (I, Manjeet, Pomey, Abhishek, Ujjwal and Sanjeev) had gone to watch the movie during office hours without informing anyone. While the movie was in progress the project leads tried calling us but we missed their calls and it was a mess afterwards :)

‘Pyar ka Punchnama’ – watched it with Kunal and Febin. It was a complete laugh riot. More so as we compared the three characters with Kunal, Febin and Sahil. We still laugh when we remember the movie.

‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara’ – watched it with Sahil and Febin; probably the only movie we three have watched together. It was a wonderful movie no doubt and the food at Sahil’s place after the movie was wonderful.

‘Road Movie’ – this movie is remembered for all the wrong reasons. Watched it with Shubhi, Kunal and Dheeraj. I and Kunal were literally thinking what we were doing sitting in the hall while Shubhi and Dheeraj said that they actually liked the movie. Well, if someone asks me movies to avoid at all costs, this movie tops the list for me.

‘Murder 2’ – watched this movie with Kunal, Smita and Febin. The 4 of us actually watched the movie buying 3 tickets only. Read http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2011/10/movie-without-ticket.html for more.

‘Love Aaj Kal’ – watched it with Manas. The day we watched this movie was Friendship day and we were the last people to get the tickets for this movie for the show. We watched the movie sitting in the 1st row – seat no 1 and 2.

‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ – well our company decided to take the entire SBU to watch this movie. The entire hall was booked for us. About the movie, well the lesser said is better :P

‘Pirates of the Carribian: On Stranger Tides’ – watched this movie with Febin. It was the 11:40 PM show and the movie was way longer than expected. Reached home around 2:30 AM. From next morning onwards the upper limit to reach home was set to 12 midnight :(

‘Jurassic Park’ – this was my first movie ever at a cinema hall, so this has to be part of the list. And I don’t know how but I had actually fallen asleep in this movie.

‘Break Ke Baad’ – watched this movie with Minakshi. We were supposed to have a paper on this day, but due to some mishandling on the part of the university our name was not there. So we could either go to the main campus and enquire or watch a movie. We decided to do the latter.

‘Dhol’ – watched this movie with Supreet, Sachin and Manisha. It was during my part time MBA where we were studying. The mid-term was going on and we had given the morning paper. There were 2 papers scheduled the next day. I asked if anyone was game for a movie. To my surprise all of them agreed and we ended up watching ‘Dhol’ instead of heading home and studying.

‘Ghajini’ – watched this movie with Hina. It was the first movie I watched at Shakuntalam. The interiors were more like a old college auditorium than a movie hall; and the interval snacks were same as a college canteen.

‘Rocket Singh’ – watched this movie with my mom and sister. My mom doesn’t usually go to movie halls. But I insisted and took her assuring her that if she doesn’t like the movie then we’ll leave early. But she liked the movie.

There are many more movies which are fondly remembered for some reason or the other. If you remember any such thing about a movie then do post a comment; and if it involves me then you must definitely write about it ;)

Waiting for your comments…