The melting....

We are back to normalcy, weather-wise at least. I heard airline schedules have jumped back on track as well. Overpasses are safer. I can see the grass now. The ice is melting. It is chilly outside but not depressing. Sort of what triggers nostalgia. I was listening to an old time favorite song of mine I found on YouTube. It is from a Telugu movie called Geetanjali made and released around the time I was in 10th standard back home (circa 1989). I believe the movie won some popular awards for all-round entertainment. The feel of the movie is very romantic/nostalgic/dreamy sprinkled with hard-hitting tragedies. It was remade in Hindi later as Yaad Rakhegi Duniya starring Aditya Pancholi (Panscholi??) and Rukhsar. Don't know if it captured the magic of Mani Ratnam's original. The BGM and songs in Geetanjali were phenomenal. One technician Mani stopped working with soon after that was ace cinematographer P.C. Sreeram, who along with former started the effect of glistening faces in dimly lit foreground and bright backgrounds in movies. Went really well with the hardly-open-mouth dialogues in Mani Ratnam's movies - anyone remember all the whispering and throaty dialogue deliveries in Roja and Dil Se?:) Anyways, check out scenes/songs from Mouna Ragam, Agni Nakshtram, Nayakan to see what I mean. Today is a designated living-in-the-past day....