Do you enjoy seeing some movies twice or more often? I guess that’s a rhetoric question in a country where films — okay, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge — have been running for 20 years. And it’s quite normal to find people watching that film for the 42nd time saying “Ah, the film’s a good manual on how to patao your future father-in-law.” Repeat viewing is the backbone of a solid hit, I suppose.

For films I love, it’s a real pleasure seeing them a second time. I was told that for the remarkable Tamil film Paruthiveeran, a feisty and fierce Romeo-and-Juliet tragedy set in Madurai, the climax is so horrific, that for the many months the film ran in theatres, the entire audience would leave the hall before the last 20 minutes, unable to handle the fate of the heroine. But they would come right back for the next show.