Got a Blu-Ray of this timeless epic. There's a bit of a history with this Film so here we go.
Some 14 years ago, I was a young Kid; perpetually on the go as most kids that age and restless enough to make my Mom wince and quite often at that.
It was a typically lazy Sunday afternoon and my dad opened that VCR of ours,putting on a Film that he insisted I'd love. I was and still am a natural skeptic so I was waiting for evening to get in a Cricket game and work up a sweat. Films weren't really a passion then quite obviously so I wasn't really expecting something that'd make a 10 year Kid gasp, much less introspect.
But,right from the opening credits where that all too familiar OST (Probably the most famous OST of all time) hits the ear drums; I was captivated. The eerie,wild and jagged sound was fiercely evocative even then! The first extreme close-up shot was something I had never seen or experienced before and right from that moment on, I was a dead Mackerel - hook,line and sinker! I had left the heat and dust of Madras for the deserts and was a faceless observer of cynical,leathery men preoccupied with survival; their lives fueled and obsessed by pure,unadulterated greed. It'd mystify the mind of any 10 year old bloke. It mystified mine.
I don't need to wax eloquent on the merits of the Film. By ANY yardstick, it has to be one of the greatest Films of all time. For the next 3 hours I was glued to the tube. In more ways than one, it opened up a whole new world.
After the Film was over, my dad grinned at me. I grinned back. That says it all I guess. ;-)
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