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Confront IT!

As a child, what was or has been your greatest, deepest fear? What is/are the childhood moment/s when you really felt afraid of what you were seeing, hearing or feeling? Did you ever develop the consciousness to confront your fear during your childhood? Or rather, did it confront you? What happened after the confrontation? Confrontation is a choice. These are some of the questions that last week’s Warner Bros. And New Line Cinema release,  IT,  asks the audience to ask themselves. And while one thinks about these, it is also important to bear in mind that the fears of a child are different from the fears of an adult. Again, fears of a girl-kid are different from the fears of a boy-kid. Some fears are time-driven, time-dependent. Time plays with (y)our mind. Childhood and adolescence come with their own set of fears; youth has its own anxieties and insecurities, likewise for mid-life. The end of life is a fear in its own capacity; perhaps the ultimate fear and the most gen...