

Reading that book opened up a whole new world to me. Or perhaps the fact that you could drop a lightsaber vertically downward and it might potentially poke a hole through to Australia. Maybe it was the idea of space travel, or the iconic characters and their unique personalities. Amitabh Bachchan was a bigger draw in the Dhaka of the early 90's.īut Star Wars captured my imagination like nothing else. Also, they did not keep "old" movies from 1983 in stock.

These were shady small establishments smelling of incense and housing shelves full of potentially soul destroying labels glued onto black VHS cassettes. Wouldn't a movie have been an easier fix? We had something called video rental shops.

And then I read it a few times more till the pages became dog-eared. It took me a month to read that concise book that was an adaptation of a movie. I was hooked like a Sith Lord on power converters.
