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After The End

Everyone who has been to a movie, has often thought a different ending to the story, particularly if it has been a sad or tragic one. Or people have made up stories in their mind, taking off from where the movie story-line ends. Going back to movies that touched my heart, I remember Mili , the story of a cancer-stricken girl flying off to Switzerland in the last scene, with her newly-wed husband. I remember people talking about a sequel to the film in which she returns completely cured, though sequels weren't the in-thing in the 1970s in Bollywood. But then cancer was considered incurable and film-makers had spun many a stories around cancer that had tragic ends - Anand and Safar to name a few.  Anand too had an impact on me and I too was waiting for Babu Moshai (Amitabh Bachchan) to return in the last scene with the miraculous homeopathic medicine that would have cured Anand (Rajesh Khanna).  Another Rajesh Khanna-Amitabh Bachchan starrer, and it is a pity they acted in on...