Audio Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds
Before I even moved to New York City, I imagined New York City. Everyone told me about its excess. But the way I felt in New York, split me between two places, making me feel like a ghost. And then I thought about what I would if I felt this way in Delhi. I would go to the movies. In India, watching the movies means feeling the grand scale of your own feelings. This story is a love letter to Bombay Cinema and New York. I explore the idea of finding home through the movies, in a city that itself identifies as a movie. Centred around the Bombay Theater (that recently shut down) in Queens, the piece attempts to look at the experience of movie watching in the cinema hall and the arrival of streaming, and living our lives in "goblin mode." In 2022, Oxford Dictionary's word of the year was goblin mode. It means, "a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations." In the post pandemic world, all of us lived in goblin mode. Could going to the movies be a way out of getting out of this goblin mode?
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Script Writing
Audio Editing
Production