The big screen has a magic to it: Lillete

Actor Lillete Dubey has avoided interaction with the outside world in the lockdown, and states that she “did not get depressed or feel low about how life is going to be”. “Yes, there is uncertainty of course, all of us feel this. There will definitely be a shift. We will be foolish if we did not accept that,” she says, adding that she used her time to read poetry with her daughter Ira Dubey, something that both of them are fond of. “I used to be a very voracious reader,” the Lunchbox (2013) actor says.

Lillete feels that the experience of watching a film on the big screen is unparalleled. Although many are consuming content online these days, she hopes for a better day for theatres, too. “I think that the movie watching experience on a big screen should never go away. Maybe, I belong to that generation. It was a big thing for us. In our times, there weren’t all these options that we have now. There are some films that are so good that they need to be seen on a big screen,” she says, adding that the last film she watched in the theatre was Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). “Thank God I watched it on the big screen. It has a magic to it. There is a collective feeling to it,” she shares.

But she does caution that in the future, the films that release on the big screen must have something for the audience to walk in. “The public has been exposed to so much content that your films have to have something for them to go and watch,” says Lillete, who is currently working on her memoir.

Lillete Dubey