love for cinema

it all started from zee cinema when cable tv came to our town,i remember watching all the hindi movies of old decades during my holidays and even on weekends ,i think i watched all from amar akbar anthony,anand,karz,shammi kapoor,shashi kapoor ,rajesh khanna movies etc etc ,i didnt watch any of the english movies untill class 10th
i remember the first english movie i had ever watched ,it was "broken arrow" ,at that time i tht it is the best action movie ever made having grown up on the diet of dishum dishum ,khoon pe jiyogha stuff,then i moved onto terminator and all the arnold movies,untill then i dont think i ever watched a movie by the name of its director ,it was only arnold movies,tom cruise,srk,amitab bachan etc
i think i watched all hit action english movies of 90's on star movies or video ,
in my engg ,i really didnt progress a lot in terms of movie watching experencnce it was still the hit movies by the actor' name ,i didnt know the name of tarantino,scorcese etc untill final year ,i think the env around such was that nobody used to talk about these kinds of movies which was surprising cnosidering that these directors have given big commercial hits ,i think the only director i knew that time was speilberg, internet was not accessible to me in those days ,it was only once in two weeks or month cyber cafe visits, later on i moved to metro cities esp i will say my banaglore stay changed me a lot in terms of my love ,passion ,junoon for movies ,i rem going there first time for a course in film appreciation by a leading film critic ,i went there without any expectations ,there is some background to this story also , since i got virtaully 24 internet access i had started searching net for various things related to film making esp direction the more i searched the more my passion increased ,i was not watching any of those movies but i was enjoying reading about them ,the interview of their director's background of story etc esp related to 70's like coppola ,speilberg,scorcese,lucas,the way these guys started and brought a new era in film making ,it was really inspriing in a strange way ,so i started searching even more ,whenever i used to get net acess which was actually available 24 hrs a day ,i used to go to wikipedia(this and rediff are two sites without whom life will be incomplete)and search about that movies,slowly i had "read" about how the film making started ,how hollywood came into picture ,early hollywood ,50's,60's and new eras ,french film industry and on the whole eurpoean film indsutry,i never felt tired reading at times upto 4-5 hrs on one stretch ,it was all on net that was ok for me but i now i wanted to learn some practical things and watch some of those stuff ,so i started searching on net regarding the possiblities of such things in bangalore and then i found suchitra film society and here i attended my first work shop for film appreciation ,the guy showed some clips and talked about things in detail which was sort of related to genres and early european stuff but i was again hooked completely,he bashed bolllywood ,i didnt like it but still he was talking some sense ,after that i was a regular visitor to suchitra society in bangalore film screenings ,witever the timings may be i used to be there ,witever discussion anything related to films i used to be there ,i was falling in love all over again :), then one of my frnds while going to forum bangalore intoduced me to crosswords in forum,he told me that we can sit there and read a book for "some time " ha ha ha now some time is differnet for different people na ,so i used to sit there whole day for 6-7 months and virtaully read most of books in their film section but i loved those books so much that i started buying them,they were bit expenssive even for a s/s guy's salary but now i am gold membership card holder for crosswords ,so it was a gain for both cross word and me :),then i attended few workshops in blore itself related to practical work ,by the end last yr i attended another workshop at suchitra for scripwriting ,then at the start of the year i attended bangalore film festival as a delegate member ,wowwwwwwwwwww wit the the time it was i can easily say it was the best one week in my life long time ,from morning 9 to night 1 or 2 i used to be there watching movies after movies,few workshops were also there , as i said earlier i was maily using wiki and some other sites and blogs( not some really :) ,there are nearly 15 k links realted to these things in my delcious account ,whenever i log into delicious and loook at my no of links i feel gr8 for no apparent reason :))but i still hadnt discoverd the potential of youtube ,it was only this year that i started going to you tube seriously apart from other fun stuff ,and wit a treasure youtube is really ,there are some gr8 videos related to every aspect ,decade,genres etc etc as in witever one wants to learn bout film making ,now my you tube is gonna cross 10,000 views in early next ,so this is sort of my journey describing my love ,passion junnon for cinema ,lets c wit comes out of it