Steven Allan Spielberg needs no introduction. I think none can compete with his outstanding film career since Escape to Nowhere (1962), a 40-minute war movie, won first prize at a film festival when he was a teenager. He was the youngest creative consultant at Universal Studios who directed Crawford, the Broadway star in 1969. The Hotstar documentary recollects it - she was horrified by the idea of a young director instructing her. Seeing a refreshing, intuitive director in Spielberg, she later informed Rod Serling, the scriptwriter, it was totally right Rod gave him that opportunity.

Duel, one of my favorites from the legendary American director with an insecure childhood came out in 1971. That edge-of-the-seat cinematic experience of a psychic truck driver chasing a salesman who was terrified by this unexpected act down a highway is a classic in a genre of films induces fear, an unending fear almost kills you. Steven says everyone wanted that truck to be smashed fully but he wanted it to be as shown in the movie like an object with life facing a slow death. Shot as a television movie, it found its way to theatre adding more parts.

Jaws, adapted out of a novel of the same name in 1975 is Spielberg’s first commercial hit. Shooting of this horror thriller which grossed $470 million worldwide was life-threatening to Steven and the crew. He and his associates vividly explain those terrifying days at sea in the Doc. While ‘Jawsmania’ gripped the world, Alfred Hitchcock praised Steven’s unconventional camera techniques in shots.

Spielberg’s first theatrical feature film The Sugarland Express wasn’t a commercial success. When I got a chance to watch it, I really liked his direction.

Steven Spielberg was an insecure kid, even the smallest sounds or sights at night scared him. He was someone always believed in the security of home. 'I showed how important is a united family for kids, so alongside disintegration, I later found a way to rebuild it in most of my movies’.

To be continued..