I was studying in my fifth grade, and at that time, had much charm for the TV and films that were telecast on it. But at that time, there were no digital channels and the only channel that we had, showed little number of films, and we were always finding a chance to see one, anyhow!

The times changed and VCRs made their way in the market, and luckily, one of the neighbors purchased one VCR set. All the boys of my street got very excited at the idea of watching a film on a VCR, as we would have all the control on its functions, and there will be no limitations. However, the limitation came soon, as the Granny of that household was not that very accommodative to the children of the whole street! And we found it very difficult to get into their house for watching the movie that they might have brought for themselves.

The main-gate of their house started remaining closed, as it was not the case previously. And whenever there was a movie played in their house, they tightly locked their door and sit inside. However, the other members of the family was not that irritated by our invasion in their house and they generally let us in. But we had to rush out, as soon as there was a talk of the Granny coming into the room. It was just like watching the clips of the movie, and we hardly watched any movie completely. But we could not control ourselves for the charm of the VCR and were satisfied to watch that much!

And now that I am grown up, I laugh at our idiosyncrasies, as we have a large number of digital channels but I have no interest to watch the movies. It all changed and the charm of VCR is nowhere around. Time has changed but the reminiscences are still there and I can't forget those days--perhaps those were the best days of my life!