A thread on Gulzar's lyrics that look like a sentence in a normal, everyday conversation before he gives it a twist of poetic imagery :

"Mera kuch saman tumhare paas pada hai, sawan ke kuch bheege bheege din rakhe hain".

Like he were only talking about an exchange. "Oho zara rasta to do, thoda sa baadal chakhna hai, bada bada koyle se naam falak pe likhna hai".

Like he were only talking to people holding traffic on a road, and not the way to the characters' dreams.

From the song "Dhadak dhadak" (Bunty aur Babli)

I clocked it, & the superb "Kabilan loses himself to booze and business" montage sequence in #Sarpatta lasts for a full 7 minutes, starting at 1:51:20 when he gets out of jail and ending at 1:58:20 when he's attacked one night. The whole 7 min sequence directed to the rhythm of.. ...a very basic theme by @Music_Santhosh that's almost entirely composed with the thrust of two notes building up more and more tense as Kabilan goes corrupt. It's one of my favorite sequences in the film, a very fresh way of showing a story we've seen many times before - of...

A thread on trains in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy (in chronological order) :

In films of such small,intimate corners of life, trains acquire an almost magical role due to their symbolic weight. In Pather Panchali it becomes a rare sight of a civilisation far away from their lives In 'Aparajito', a train becomes a symbol of the vagrant way of life for Apu and his mother in search of settlement after the death of their father. That transition from Apu's mother's face to the moving train with a swipe of the camera tells that story the best.