Movie: Sholay
Aug. 22nd, 2009 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaMuch, much fun. We got this movie because it was free from Jaman and we like Bollywood - careful to avoid spoilers, we didn't read up on it beforehand, and thus had no idea we were watching THE UR-BOLLYWOOD FILM, a hugely popular classic of the 1970's. It'd be like watching Gone With the Wind without any buildup, y'know?
Anyway, it was a tremendously fun movie. It had way more comedy than I expected (though it got more serious near the end), romance, adventure, musical numbers, you name it. But what really took me by surprise was the look-and-feel. Aside from the wonderful musical numbers - I highly recommend Holi Ke Din - it looks like ... a Western. No kidding. Bandits ride down on horseback from the rocky hills into the dusty scrublands and have showdowns with the heroes (hired to protect the town), including the obligatory angle through the wheel of an overturned wagon. That sort of thing.
When it was over, I looked it up on the IMDB and learned that the director was heavily influenced by Shichinin no Samurai/The Magnificent Seven (you could probably tell that from the brief description in the previous paragraph) and by Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns, to such an extent that the movie is often described as - I LOVE this! - a "curry Western."
Anyway, it was a tremendously fun movie. It had way more comedy than I expected (though it got more serious near the end), romance, adventure, musical numbers, you name it. But what really took me by surprise was the look-and-feel. Aside from the wonderful musical numbers - I highly recommend Holi Ke Din - it looks like ... a Western. No kidding. Bandits ride down on horseback from the rocky hills into the dusty scrublands and have showdowns with the heroes (hired to protect the town), including the obligatory angle through the wheel of an overturned wagon. That sort of thing.
When it was over, I looked it up on the IMDB and learned that the director was heavily influenced by Shichinin no Samurai/The Magnificent Seven (you could probably tell that from the brief description in the previous paragraph) and by Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns, to such an extent that the movie is often described as - I LOVE this! - a "curry Western."
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