19 October,2025 10:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Vidya Heble
The Godfather. PIC/INSTAGRAM @theloftcinema; (right) Dersu Uzala
Wondering what to watch during those suddenly free days you get during Diwali break? Give Instagram a miss (for a while!) and try looking for a movie that matches your texting style. The way you frame and send online messages says a lot about your personality, your likes and dislikes, even your preferences for food, recreation, and movies.
Do our selections match your inner cinephile?
Prim and proper texters
They are an object lesson: Structured sentences, standard grammar, and correct punctuation.
Ghosters
Now you see them, now you don't⦠then you see them again, but do you? It's contacts who were "last seen" 20 minutes ago but left you on "read" last year.
Hello-ers
There's that "Hi". Or "Hey". And then nothing⦠because they're waiting for you to respond. Say what you want in that first or second text itself, yes?
The hru-er
So casual, it hurts - your brain trying to decipher abbreviations that didn't exist until 5 minutes ago.
Waterfall texters
The rapid-fire ones who send multiple short texts in a row.
Emoji-obsessed texters
It's all about the symbols, when sometimes a tiny picture is worth about 10 words.
Dry texters
Laconic, one-word type. Getting information or insight is like pulling teeth, one text at a time.
. Citizen Kane
. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Paragraph texters
Full of detail, wasting not even a mm of space (hangover from SMS character count days?)
. Interstellar
. The Seventh Seal