Maybe a ringtone from 2020 will tell us — a crazy 10-second piece about a time when there used to be these longish things called film songs, and ringtones used to be made from them, instead of the other way around.
The future? Ringtones would give birth to film songs and Oscars might move to India. The aam aadmi will be a walking multiplex, and a thousand micro-theatres will bloom.
In 2020, when lakhs of Indians will be stuck to their mobile slate-phones, hooked 24/7 to their 9G networks or other oxygen equivalents, life may be a bit different. The average cellphone would have turned into, at the very least, a talking-viewing-projecting personal device, and the average person, a walking multiplex. When a cheap theatre ticket would cost Rs 2,000 and a bucket of popcorn half of that, would the young be still as excited to go to the nearby multiplex?
