Make this lockdown a golden chance to catch up old classics from Bollywood and Hollywood. Revisit the classics across genres from cinematic gems to unexplored decades-old cult cinemas to reduce the stress attached to being at home. A revisit would be worth as binge-watching the old cinemas can bring feel-good nostalgia.
With the overflowing options available on digital platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar among others, one can struggle between choosing cinema. The following list will help you to avoid the struggle of choosing some brilliant movies that has come out of Bollywood and Hollywood over the decades. Pick cinema according to your taste to relax and bust the stress of lockdown.
BOLLYWOOD EXCEPTIONAL
CHUPKE CHUPKE (1975): Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s comedy film is about a man pretending to be a driver and fooling his wife's brother-in-law as an attempt to prove that the brother-in-law is not as smart as he claims to be.
PAKEEZAH (1972): The Kamal Amrohi directed film sees the last performance by Meena Kumari. The film set in Lucknow revolves around the mental plight of a tawaif (courtesan and dancer) and their longing to be loved, accepted and respected by society.
BOBBY (1973): Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Pran, and Prem Nath starring film presents a simple love story between the son of a rich Hindu businessman with 16-year-old Bobby, a Catholic belonging to a very different stature.
This story is from the April 05, 2020 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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