I remember the day when I saw solaris at my school days. That day I saw this movie at midnight in my home TV. That time DD used to broadcast every Friday a wonderful movie at night 11pm, but now they are not doing this. Movies of Tarokovosky, bergman, fellini etc often telecasted through TV on those time. I was just mesmerized by the visual, by that night when I was alone watching Solaris. All quiet in home and outside, in a cold, dark atmosphere. Later day I discussed this film with my friends but more I was in magical trance of this movie.  This movie is visually hypnotic and thematically nearby film on love, conscience, and reconciliation. Again I have seen this movie few days back, and this time with more maturity. Solaris is considered a science-fiction film. But not as usual known science fiction films likes Star Wars, Alien and The Terminator etc. No lesser gun, special spaceship, alien or this one nothing like a cliché science fiction.  Tarokovsky treated this movie amazingly and a genuine exploration of human life in science genre.  Solaris is the only Tarkovsky film based around a love story.  Tarkovsky writes in his brilliant book, Sculpting in Time, Solaris is only by chance a science-fiction film. He explains: Unfortunately the science fiction element in Solaris was nonetheless too prominent and became a distraction. The rockets and space stations - required by Lem’s novel - were interesting to construct; but it seems to me now that the idea of the film would have stood out more vividly and boldly had we managed to dispense with these things altogether. Stanislaw Lem was not agreed with output of his novel Solaris as film. There was some argument with Tarkovsky about treatment of the movie and changes Tarkovsky made. Basically Stanislaw Lem does not like the movie solaris as he said “I never really liked Tarkovsky's version of Solaris.” But Tarkovsky is clear and upfront about this point when he writes in Sculpting in Time:I have to say at the outset that not all prose can...