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2 Most Underappreciated Movies by Audience

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 Most of the movies get an appreciation for their unique screenplay, acting performances, great direction but some of the movies don’t get the appreciation they deserve. This appreciation is not in the awards or critic's ratings but in the eyes of the audience. Sometimes the audience doesn’t get the main subject of the movie and criticizes the plot of the movie. The length of the movie plays a pivotal part in the audience’s perception of the movie. Nowadays with social apps like TikTok, Instagram Reels, the patience level of the audience is getting shorter. One small slow scene can drive them too fast forward the movie. I don’t fast-forward movies as it lost the touch of a movie. Three hours movie seems dragged to the audience as ninety- or hundred-minute movies seem good to them. Sometimes the audience has to understand that slowness has to be there to maintain the flow of the movie. This led to poor ratings on the sites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. For example, in Taxi Driver (...

Late Monsoon Captures Mumbai Again

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  Late Monsoon Captures Mumbai Again Today overnight rain halted the life of Mumbai. This is not the first time this happened to Mumbai. Rather than this is new normal to Mumbaikers because they see this every year. I think Mumbai is not awake from the horrors of 26th July 2005. You all might think it’s 16 years ago and now we are way beyond it. From Nokia 1100 to iPhone 12 we all are now ahead of life. Well, you might be ahead but your Drainage System is not. Mumbai has a British-era Drainage System. Yes, you read it right. It is not from the previous government or some party’s work. So now you have to blame the British for this. Mumbai’s drainage system is built-in 1860. From that period there has been a small improvement in the drainage system over the years but it is still based on the British-era, This drainage system is designed to carry 25 mm of rainfall. But Mumbai received 253.4 mm of rainfall till 8:30 am on Friday, 16th August 2021. It is 10 times more than the capacity ...