The villain has the hero by his neck and his vicious, determined expression tells you that he means to end the hero’s life. He’s so focussed on gritting his teeth and increasing the pressure on the hero’s neck, that he hasn’t noticed that the hero has struggled towards the gun that has one bullet left...

Of course the hero misses and villain falls off the ledge and falls into the waterfall... But by the time the hero returns to the headquarters, the boss has another crime for our hero to solve. And the clues point to a fact. The villain is still alive...

‘Pickture abhi baaki hai mere dost!’

Jason Bourne needs to find out who he is, Akshay Khiladi Kumar needs to solve cases, Luke Skywalker has to save the universe, James Bond saves face for the MI6. Micheal J Fox went back to the future to save one thing and then another and we loved him each time.

Let’s accept it. We love movies with endings that are sort of nebulous, stories where we are happy, but our curiosity is stoked enough for us to come back to watch the sequels. Some movies, like The Matrix>, were created to stand alone, but their philosophy and the story had enough room to adjust the plot and the characters to create back stories and offer us insights into the weird and wonderful world of the keymaker and the architect. Star Wars trilogy was supposd to be complete, but then the prequels were just as involving.

Why Sequels?

Have you seen Lord Of The Rings? The books were so huge, you could not tell the story of the middle kingdom and of Mordor in one two hour ten inute movie! You needed more! Harry Potter movies followed the chronicled growing up of the characters in a year by school year story.

It take movies like Transformers or Iron Man series to bring you crashing to the real reason behind creating sequels. Marketing. How else will you spend your hard earned cash but on an Iron Man Lunch Box? Or the horribly expensive Optimus Prime toy?

And it’s not just the action movies that warrant sequels. Comedies like Hangover also have a loyal following that will spend money and watch the sequels (however lame) in a multiplex. Movies like Golmal and Dhamaal also bring audiences back to watch mindless (read ‘timepass’) slapstick...

We/re about to see Don2. Hopefully throngs of women will love Shah Rukh’s wicked smirk more and the men will love the action sequences (like they’re raving about the car chases in Fast & Furious and the stunts in Mission Impossible series). The coming year will bring yet another Batman movie, and another Dhoom. I’m hopig to see Jason Statham take off his shirt and fight the baddies once again in another Transporter sequel. What are you looking forward to? Add your favorite sequel here:

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