I have been thinking of watching an animation movie first day first show of its release. I was able to do that for the first time yesterday, thanks to my second shift at work. The movie was Dr.Suess’ Horton Hears a Who. Funny name but a not so funny movie to say the least. The kids liked it though. The movie is about an elephant named Horton, who tries to save a tiny world that lives on a speck of a flower. The movie starts with the elephant taking a bath in a river and hears sounds of help from the speck flying past him. But in a short while, the camera zooms into the speck to show the ever-happy tiny city of Whoville and the people there living happily without knowing that their world is flying off from a safe place. That gives rise to the first question….if no one knows what is happening to their world, who shouted for help ?! Well, its just a movie for kids and there is no place for logic I guess.
When I booked tickets online, the screen showed that only 15 seats were available. Morning show on a working day, that too for an animated movie, only 15 seats left?! People have suddenly become so fond of animation movies?! Something fishy! And I sniffed right. Actually, only 15 people turned up for the movie. The theatre (INOX) owners were probably making some stunts to create demand. Considering that the movie is about an elephant and Bal Ganesh being a famous Hindu deity around here in Pune, I was expecting a lot more to make it to the movie. Anything remotely based on mythology has to do well in India, isn’t it! Alas, I was disappointed!
