With time, I started to realize that my appetite for films, particularly honest and realistic films, good cinema is only increasing and not decreasing. And this led me to start exploring Western cinema too. I still remember watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and how it left me flabbergastered. Thriller in a true sense, one of the finest, “Psycho” was followed by reading about Hitchcock’s other prominent films such as Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955) and The Birds (1963). While reading and studying more about Western cinema I also came across Orson Welles and his trend-setting film “Citizen Kane (1941)”. I read about the film, and watched it but didn’t get much from it back then but there is more to know about my journey with this film (will talk about it in subsequent parts).
I have a habit of discussing films and literature with my parents, so one day when I was discussing different writers with my father, he told me about a book he had read a long time ago, during his college days, and that too both in Hindi and English language. This book was Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather“, and I already knew about Coppola’s “The Godfather (1972)” (but I didn’t know a book of the same name existed until he told me) so then I asked him to watch “The Godfather (1972)” and the way I intended this go he became a huge fan of the film and rewatched it several times. After “The Godfather and its sequels”, he asked me to recommend to him other films with the same or similar cast or story which continues to this day and I recommend films to him regularly…