Yesterday was when it all ended. I caught up with an evening show at a suburban multiplex screen in 3d here as I was lucky to manage a ticket stub at the last moment. In the screening, there were around 100 odd kids all of them dressed up as major and most lovable characters in the movie. And all of them had Harry Potter scar painted on their foreheads. They all looked so cute. They were all over, screaming and chanting spells and having a whale of time enjoying every bit of their evening. I felt like a kid again among all of them as I vaguely could recall seeing the first part in Symphony theatre Bangalore. Those were the times when multiplex word was unknown in India and 3D was restricted to Chota Chetan movies.
Who could have dreamt that this story would come so long.Over these years, how the kids have grown and without knowing we all grew up with them watching these movies. They have literally transported us to the magical world of Hogwarts. These names, stories, characters will live on forever. Like they say, the best should be kept for the last, the movie is a worthy end to the series that spanned around 15 years of literature history and 10 years of on-screen history.
Tens of thousands of million books and box-office tickets later, HP-7 Part 2 finally gives every answer it can to satiate the senses of each and every fan of the series. As the movie ends there is a whimsical sense of contentment that makes you feel both happy and sad. Happy, that this is a befitting end to the boy wizard story which for the records is the largest selling book in the modern history surpassing the likes of Bible, Quran etc. Sad, as we will never be able to see any of these characters in flesh and blood on the screen ever again.
Only one question lingers on. In the near futuristic cinema history, will any movie franchise ever dare to even dream of reaching/going beyond this?
JK Rowling, take a bow as innumerable millions might as well end up telling another story apart from your Harry Potter stories to their kids and for generations to come:
“We lived in the times of Harry Potter”
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