Saw it for the first time at Neptune Theatre in Bandra, with my family. I was eight, knew Malayalam and English, and had never heard Hindi. I got so bored that I went off to an aunt's house who I knew lived near by.
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John Matthew Mathan
The Movies I Loved Growing Up
The director picks his choice of flicks...
MUGHAL-Eu2013AZAM: Saw it for the first time at Neptune Theatre in Bandra, with my family. I was eight, knew Malayalam and English, and had never heard Hindi. I got so bored that I went off to an aunt's house who I knew lived near by. In the interval, my parents discovered that I was missing in and began to hunt for me. Fortunately, my dad guessed where I would be. All I could remember of that movie for a long time was the colour song sequence, and the thrashing I received. I saw the film again when I turned 15 again and fell in love with it.
TEN COMMANDMENTS: I was 12 when I saw this film at New Talkies in Bandra and sat glued to my seat. Moses' was one of my favourite stories from the Bible. In retrospect, I think watching a story that I knew, come alive on screen must have been an experience in itself.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC: I was 13. My entire class was taken to Sterling Theatre. The first time I saw this film, the pranks of the kids paled in comparison to what we were did in those days. So we booed and cracked jokes throughout. Only in college, did I truly begin to love it when I saw it again.
BENHUR: Was a story told by a school teacher. I was 16, and craving to see it because I had made up my mind to become a film maker. I heard that the film was showing at Regal and saved money to watch it. The characters, the setting, the background score and the climactic chariot race made me want to see the film again. Which I could do only two years later, during college, when I regularly went downtown.
MOTHER INDIA: I was 17 then and in class 11, the final year of school. Mother India was showing at one of the newly opened multi-screen theatres Galaxy-Gaiety-Gemini in Bandra. The film opened with an Urdu sher that ended with the words: wahi hota hai jo manzoor-e-khuda hota hai. Before the couplet ended, the theatre was exploding with whistles. I decided that whenever I make a film, I'd open it with a sher, which I did fulfil.
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