When I think of the complete Hindi film experience, my mind harks back to the era of the single-screen cinema halls, a few decades back.
This was a time when exquisitely hand-painted posters adorned the exteriors of cinemas, when lobby cards heightened the anticipation of the upcoming movie and speculations were made merely by looking at still images from the film in magazines, when serpentine queues outside the theatre were a regular occurrence. Fistfights erupted when the dreaded ‘Housefull’ board made an appearance.
