India, Nov. 9 -- Why do we still watch movies in theatres? Why is the communal cinema experience such a core part of our culture, offering a sense of freedom and calmness rarely found in the real world? Modern struggles do not provide polarising answers to these questions, but the magic of the past does. If we look at the last 25 years since the new century began, the art of cinema has transitioned with such speed that all we could do was just keep up and adapt.

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There was a time when movies included songs that, although they might not have been relevant to the story, the filmmakers justified, and we both a...