“Everything I learned, I learned from the movies.” ― Audrey Hepburn
Believe it or not, I identify with this as do many more like me. Movies have taught me a hell of a lot. Throughout college, I watched a lot of English movies and considering that it’s not my mother tongue, movies improved my English a lot. Not to say that I have mastered the language.
For me there were four phases of watching movies.
1) Idiot Box phase
2) 6 in 1 DVD phase
3) 70 mm phase
4) The Torrent phase
The first phase is ultra common in Indian households. Be it a black & white Tv , Color Tv , Flat Tv , LCD/LED or 3D Tv , all of us have experience watching movies on TV. And this phase has no age. It’s evergreen. No matter how poor , rich , busy or free you are. This phase will be there forever. Period.
The most fun part about the DVD phase is that it shows you’re not addicted to Internet(Or may be you don’t have enough resources to access internet). Whatever the case this phase last for at least 3 years in my life. The experience is worth sharing. During my school days I used to stop at the CD stall and looked out for the “yet to see” movies. The rent of the DVD was varied from 5-10 rs. It depends on the quality of the DVD and Movies too. At the end of this phase what I’m left with are a one ripped off DVD player and hundreds of DVDs.
The 70 mm phase played a little role in my life till now. I can actually count the number of movies I’ve seen in theaters/plexes. Frankly speaking I feel deceived when I watch movies in theaters. Still people can enjoy a lot if they have their buddies or loved ones with them. It’s like a party in theater.
It was my first year of college when I came to know about this beautiful phase. The Torrent phase. I came to know that one can actually download a full movie (with great print) from this website. And then there’s no looking back. I said NO to Multiplexes , DVD player and TV to some extent.
It took me no time to get used to with Torrentz.eu . I started feeling that why the heck people go to plexes and wasting their bucks. One can download the bollywood , hollywood and all other wood’s flicks totally free. As the day passed I realized that one has to wait for some months to get the original copy of the flick. And that’s the sole drawback of this phase.However one can download the scamrip , camrip , cdrip (actually ripped) print of the movie within a couple of hours of its released.
-@A