Don't know if you recall Jaison Reitnam's Up In The Air (2009). It was a pretty serious movie, given its subject. There's George Clooney, whose character sacks people for a living. Which on any given day might be a sucky profession to be in, except one sense this corporate globetrotter, deeply lacking in empathy, secretly loves his job.

But more than that, the film was a direct response to the 2008 recession. And so a lot of people watching the movie in America could be seeing in it a reflection of their own vulnerable state, with folk getting fired right, left, centre. But I don't remember any of that, from the pic. The only thing I distinctly recall still is a shot of actor Zach Galifianakis, who shows up for a quick second — as one of the fellows getting fired. And right at that moment, the audience in my Mumbai theatre is in complete splits. They can't stop laughing. And I'm thinking, what's up with that? Or so I asked Galifianakis few years ago, interviewing him on the sets of Hangover 2. "It's offensive to me, man," he said, recounting how he had to deliver toasts at both his brother and sister's weddings.