Our family isn't really a TV or movie watcher together while sitting down. As kids we used to mainly watch Discovery, History and National Geographic channels together mainly. With the increase of workload to everyone in the family it wasn't feasible at all to watch any movie or TV show together and most resting period would go to doing extra work or sleeping or the social media these days(not for me).
And so when last night I thought about watching some old Bollywood movie in the Mom's room to see if she might be interested in it, she wasn't. There were a lot of songs which she listened to but gave zero fucks about the movie that was going on and when I saw the plot I understood why.
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Complete Different Track/Tangent here: Same old family drama about arrange marriage disguised as love marriage as the basic plot. Everything centered around a girl and a guy and their marriage with some twists and turns here and there. I do want to show some proper movies like The Invitation 2015 but there is no hindi dubbing in it, however she did enjoy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 quite a bit. Now that I am writing this I realize a lot of foreign language films like La vita è bella might be proper for her and I won't have to worry about cutting out the adult sections. It will be hard to find a hindi dubbed version for this but it's better than watching the same recycled crap of Bollywood but I will give it a try anyways. Side Note: Yes, yes I know there are some true gems out there like The Lunchbox and I am Kalam but you don't know if they are good movies before you actually watch(You can rely on movies making big outside India even if they fail in India, the classic example of Paan Singh Tomar ) them and you can't trust online ratings since there are so many of Indians that every shit movie gets a good rating because slowly people have started to figure out how to rate and how the ratings can be purchased through bot account and with post-AI era, it's very easy to write a compelling review for even the most worthless pieces of shit things like ) |
But then I realized that she is just busy on her phone looking up something about new policy affecting her so I started my game on the TV(TV's connected to a budget PC), retro game and I wanted to play the Aladdin game from childhood so booted that up.
Mother saw that and said, "Prince wala game," and I was so surprised that she remembers.
All those years as a kid when I was a jerk and didn't let my sister play games or let mother use the TV to watch it(One time she cried over it because I insisted on playing Tom and Jerry in fists of furry and she wanted to watch some TV shows with the hostel kids, well, regrets) so in my head I had this image that they never cared if I gamed at all on the PC. I always assumed that and at least my Dad showed that multiple times in his anger, but the fact that she remembers just brightened me up.
All this time I thought that as a kid I was the only one enjoying those games on our first black and white monitor with DOS but I never thought if she would be at least involved in this too. I remember being so excited with the new PC and everyone else was in the family as a kid.
The reason why the PC that's connected to the TV has a fuck ton of retro games on it is because I realized that as a family we don't give a fuck about what's on right now, what TV show or what Movie or whatever the fuck everyone else watches at night. We tried subscriptions, a lot of them, we never watched like even one movie or TV show on them properly and finally decided to recharge them no more.
And recently on my train journey I realized that on long train journeys, gaming is the best thing. I sort of talked about it here.
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