i was in 2nd standard when i got to watch my first movie in a cinema hall ajay devgan starrer "jigar"...n from there the list grows exponentially.Being a movie buff i can really say that bollywood has truly come of age and is really going places from the typical dhishum-dhishum,kumbh ke mela and boorhi maan ka badla stories to the critically acclaimed out of the box movies today.
once the term parallel cinema was used for these small budget which had no big stars,contemporary plots and were signified by a small budget and obscure actors.but slowly these movies carved a small niche for themselves with the flicks like "arth" "thora hai thore ki zaroorat hai" "namkeen" in 1970's. actors like naseeruddin shah, raj babbar,smita patil, amol palekar were some of the prominent faces of this kind of cinema.
with the rise of mall culture and multiplexes,the taste of people has really evolved now, people are not afraid of going and watching any random flick which can turn out to be a blockbuster and many small budget movies have done that in the past too.A motley array of movie makers have just transformed the whole milieu and a lot of experimental cinema,backed by a good research work has got to be seen in recent days which is definitely a treat for the people in search of some esoteric cinema.Whether it's adaptation of Shakespeare's plays as india's grassroot politics or the bold new face of sharat chandra's devdas, these eclectic plots have added a whole new dimension to the movie experience which is certainly nowhere behind the hollywood.
Maybe the 8 academy award bash of the bollywood's step-daughter "slumdog millionaire" is not over yet but the true bollywood has finally arrived in high spirits and raring to go.
