![]() Varma has created some fine moments of terror and thrills inside the theatre. ![]() ![]() If the nightmare of Raat isn't creepy enough, Ram Gopal Varma adds to the fearsome element by throwing in a battery of ghosts to torment Urmila Matondkar inside an empty movie hall. Imagine the horror everyone watching it in the theatre must have felt back then. One of them is when Revathy, enjoying a movie in the company of friends, suddenly discovers she's all alone in an empty theatre. Two of its most memorable moments happen inside a theatre - one, where Aamir Khan's poor theatre etiquette embarrasses Urmila Matondkar, and another where she reads his declaration of romance and abandons the premiere of her grand Bollywood debut to hunt him down. Both the men in her life are about movies - a superstar and a scalper. Rangeela centres on a middle class girl's celluloid aspirations. While Deepika Padukone declares the value of Ek chutki sindoor on screen, her biggest fans Shah Rukh Khan and Shreyas Talpade cheer from the side-lines evoking Manoj Kumar's wrath on screen and off it in this zany Farah Khan style ode to showbiz. Saif and Sonali Kulkarni's imagination runs riot (and retro) prompting the fabulous Woh Ladki Hain Kahan medley as the lines between reel and real are blurred and they realise their off screen happily-ever-after. (Incidentally, also the title of a movie he starred in). Movies provide an escape from reality, Saif Ali Khan once told. ![]()
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