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I Love Magic! :D

On 16th morning, I booked my tickets for the First Day First Show of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them at Prasads, Large Screen (IMAX, Hyderabad). And since then I haven’t been calm. No, not even as I am writing this. I was almost sure that my yearslong dream won’t come true as my internal exams were scheduled for 18th November. But a last minute postponement gave me the idea that, I was so meant to watch the very first show of the movie!


Unlike the other days, this morning I was wide awake by 7AM and was shouting, It’s Harry Potter day, It’s Fantastic Beasts day! The day finally came when I could watch the prequel to the Harry Potter series (if not the HP series) on the large screen instead of renting the pirated CDs or waiting for my brother to get the original DVDs. It was supposed to be THE BIG DAY. So I set my table calendar, clicked its pictures, and shared it on my social media to let the virtual world know how happy I am!

As I met a friend at the theatre, I couldn’t stop but blabber about the movie acting completely unaware of people around us. I clicked pictures with the poster in order to post it online but was met with the dilemma of choosing between making the update and watching the movie. Sadly, the update went online during interval!

So how was Fantastic Beasts, right? When the movie was over I could hear myself say, I LOVE MAGIC, just like Harry says it. A critical voice in my head said, you mean the VFX! I chose to ignore that voice this one time and concentrate on magic. But was it as good as the Harry Potter?

Well, to be honest, aren’t the Harry Potter movies disappointing once you’ve read the books? Go ahead and read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It won’t matter. The book is sort of an encyclopedia to the beast world, which is ironic because of the size of the book. The plot of the movie is new. There is no book or a movie to compare with. As far as Harry Potter is concerned, let’s say,

Different time periods. Different countries. Different characters. A couple of familiar names. Many known spells. Beasts are totally lovable, watch out for Niffler. And a surprisingly un-inventive name for the people who do not know magic. It wouldn’t be fair to make a comparison between the two series. It is Fantastic Beasts 101. 

The acting in the movie is really good. The VFX is spectacular. It is by far the best 3D movie that I have seen. Every time a known spell was uttered I jumped at the familiarity. A tiny moment of Ilvermony versus Hogwarts did make me laugh. New names and Old surnames left me wondering about the connections. For a moment, I did think that it might be quite a boring movie, but well it wasn’t. It set a platform for the movies to follow, with the Dumbledore-Grindelwald plot-line. And this one time, I liked a muggle more than the witches and the wizards. Oh no! Wait. I liked the No-Maj! 


I am super excited and happy definitely because I watched this one movie on the large screen, written by Rowling. I had always wanted to see the HP series in theatres. It was definitely like a dream come true, a dream that had died when Deathly Hallows Part 2 was released. It was also because, I saw First Day First Show for the first time in my life. So don’t blame me if my judgement is biased. My brother rated the movie 3/5. I would definitely give it a 4. Watch it yourself, then tell me about it. 


I definitely LOVE MAGIC (The ROWLING magic). Also, Johnny Depp has some serious I-WON'T-SHOW-MY-FACE issues! Quite interestingly, I wasn't the only one wearing a Harry Potter T-shirt in the theatre. Such Potterheads we are! :P

Hopefully, I can now go back to preparing for my seminar that apparently got preponed. :-/


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