As a kid, I was very curious — maybe you can relate. I used to spend hours and hours watching TV. Unlike other kids, I watched a lot of documentaries and shows on Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and History Channel. I did watch cartoons too, but not that much.
My favourite was Kiteretsu — the shy, smart kid with a talking robot and amazing inventions and adventures (basically a better version of Doraemon, in my opinion).
But I used to devour shows such as How It’s Made, Dinosaur Planet, Megastructures, Man vs Wild (who has not watched this show?), Mythbusters, Seconds from Disaster, Ancient Aliens, and many more.
Comment below if you also watched these shows.
The point is, because of these shows, I learned a lot about this crazy, amazing world we live in. And some of the random facts I picked up have stayed with me even today, such as:
- The Tyrannosaurus rex may have had the strongest bite force of any land animal ever.
- Drinking your own urine does not hydrate you and will actually make dehydration worse (you can guess where this fact came from).
- A bullet fired straight up will fall back down, but it won’t be as deadly as when fired at an angle.
I’m pretty sure I’ll never actually use these facts in my life, but somehow knowing them feels nice.
Big thanks to my mom! She hated that I used to watch a lot of TV, but she was kind of okay with the shows I used to watch.
Cut to today; I feel like we are not as curious as we once were. A lot of our curiosity seems to get “satisfied” by social media.
But I also feel something else has changed.
Now, I don’t just want random facts. I want to dig deeper on my own. Do some “mehnat” (hard work). I could sit and watch YouTube videos, reels, documentaries, or read books all day, but if I don’t write things down in my own words, in my own style, and apply them somewhere, I’m probably not actually learning much.
So this blog is my attempt to document my learning journey about topics I find interesting.
And I’m starting with cinema — films, movies.
Because I absolutely love them.
I love the storytelling, the world-building, the character arcs, the set designs, the VFX, the animations (basically the entire animated movie genre)… almost everything about them.
I’ve watched almost all of the IMDb Top 100 — maybe even 150 or 200 movies — along with almost every major animated movie and most of the great Bollywood films.
But now I want to make an effort to understand them better.
And after that, explore other interesting topics too.
So I’d love for you to come along with me on this journey.
So that once in a while we can look at something and say:
Now I know.