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Growing up and Rajamouli

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  I was born in 2006. I'm 16. I was introduced to movies by my dad. I don't remember the first movie I watched in theatres, but my earliest memory of a movie was watching the legendary director K. Vishwanath's last movie Subhapradam. I don't remember anything about the movie, but I remember watching it in theatres because I can still recall the image of my foot stepping on a few kernels of popcorn and puking. No, I don't think the movie was that bad, after all, Vishwanath garu directed it. As things went, it was his last directorial. Then, same year, 2010. Ok, wow! I never knew this (just googled it), not only the same year, but just a week later. Subhapradam released on 16th July, 2010. Maryada Ramanna released on 23rd July, 2010. I vividly remember crying in protest that I wouldn't come to the cinemas, because I was afraid I would throw up again. I remember sitting on the farthest seat on the sofa wearing my tiny red and black sweater, pleading my parents that...