PFC 6: The Only Change In Life Is Constant

I am a sucker for intelligent cinema. Therefore, I watch Hindi films. I like my life to be predictable. The virtues of stillness – that constancy of the truant variables in life – they give me the appetite to take intellectual risks (like watching Salman on telly) in other fields. Once you have got the emotional elements anchored right, you are free to spread your wings elsewhere is my dictum.

Therefore, I love them all – YRF, VF, RGV, White Feathers et al. What predictability! The more things change, the more they remain same. After Jannat and Sarkar Raj, I can hardly wait for the YRF summer release, the homicidal-instincts-arousing title of which goes ‘Thoda Pyar, Thoda Magic’. And I am fervently hoping it doesn’t disappoint me. I hope that every frame of it screams the stultifying formula YRF seems to have discovered to draw family audience in. …


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