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A Cinephile

I love world cinema. I have habit of checking IMDB votes of good films. I am a person who love movies, conversations about films, and people who love films. That's who I am, A cinephile. Part I Cinema provides us a cosmetic version of nationhood. We, Indians can great affinity to our cinema. We pay homage to movies through the use of dialogues, style, body language and even songs in daily life. So much of their impact on us that we can either hate or love our films but definitely can't ignore them. Ramadhir Singh is more subtle and strategic way in Gangs Of Wasseypur : "Every fucker's got his own movie playing inside his head. Every fucker is trying to become the hero of his imaginary film. As long as there are fucking movies in this country people will continue to be fooled." There is always so many feel-good and masala potboiler films in our mainstream Hindi cinema. They serve a very important function of delivering entertainment in our society. But on...