Wednesday, January 1, 2014


Lights. Camera. Action

When I was a teenager, Turner Classic Movies launched their channel as TNT in India  for the first time and the movies featured here were literally a huge feast for movie lovers like me who until then had largely viewed only Bollywood Hindi movies.

Suddenly the entire idea of watching a movie changed for me as I lapped up great classics like, Casablanca, Dr Zhivago, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Ben-Hur and many others including The West Side story, The Three Musketeers, A Streetcar named Desire, The Alphabet murders, Poltergeist.

Then came the “Gene Kelly “wave and that swept me off my feet.

Day in and out, I hummed and tapped to Gene’s numbers from-Me and my Gal, Anchors Away, On the Town, Summer Stock, An American in Paris and of course, Singin’ in the Rain. I was in love with Gene Kelly as I had never imagined a man could dance as gracefully as a woman without looking effeminate.

1 comment:

  1. Awesome!!!Keep up the good work!!
    Hope to see more of your posts!!!

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