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100 Years of Indian Cinema......

This May we are celebrating the 100 years of Indian Cinema and in past few days there have been countless articles discussing the same right from film critics to the eminent film personalities.In fact we also had Bombay Talkies released this weekend celebrating the same It would be an interesting idea to analyse and see this journey from an audience's point of view.If we had to plot a graph of trends in Indian Cinema it will be full of extreme crests and troughs.Especially in the last 3-4 years too,which has seen the industry producing some of the best movies there have been a large number of atrocities too. Cinema in any part of the world has been influenced by the socio economic enviroment of the country/region at that time.In our case too it has been the similar one.1950s were governed by the socialist themes and tackled the themes of common man and so many  movies had the backdrop of viilages too.We had a mix of movies whose backdrop oscillated form cities to villages-for