New Delhi, June 27 -- The young man in the row behind me in the 7am screening of F1 was having something like a religious experience. I could sense his enjoyment throughout, but in the film's final stretch, he started verbalizing it. "Duh-duh-duh," he intoned in imitation of the score, "Hans Zimmer is peaking." "That was close," when Brad Pitt's race car driver took a sharp corner. And when Pitt pulled away from the pack, his approving words were, simply: "He's flying."

I thought of shushing him, but decided to hold my peace. I hate when people talk at the movies. But I love it when someone talks to a movie.

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