Movies: Bulletproof Monk, Ra.One

[amedia]

Bulletproof Monk was okay; I was expecting more, but what we got wasn't bad. I wanted more about, you know, the actual title character (Chow Yun Fat) and less about the American street kid (Seann Something Something) he takes under his wing, blah blah blah. It had some nice moderately philosophical moments and some pretty good fights. The villains were great, especially the evil dude's evil daughter. The DVD came with the deleted scenes, including a few that would have made the ending far more complex and interesting.

Ra.One sounded like it was going to be a lot of fun. Sharukh Khan, the king of Bollywood, plays a video game designer who creates a villain that comes out of the game and goes after the designer's family in real life. Sounds like fun, right? Right?

How about THE WORST BOLLYWOOD MOVIE EVAR!!!!

The good parts: Great special effects. One great chase scene.
The bad parts: Everything else.
Specially bad part: there were only TWO picturizations: one sleazy, one creepy. (Here's the sleazy one, in case you don't believe me.)
And a special dishonorable mention goes to SRK's horrible, horrible hairstyle.

I could go on about the awfulness, but not without spoilers.

One of the reviews on the IMDB had a great theory about how the movie made so much money--it was free to get in, 500 rupees to get out. I'll believe that!

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Perhaps H. L. Mencken's saying has a South Asian analog: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the Indian public.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm afraid you're right about that!

[chorale.livejournal.com]

I see "Seann Something Something" was really memorable in his role. ;)

Thank you so much once more for the Bollywood music. It brightens my study time!

*hugs*

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

"Hum Kisise Kum Nahin" and "Sholay" are both from the mid-70's. You know, you hear a lot about British and American bands in the 1960's being influenced by Indian music, but I never realized how much we apparently exported the sounds of Sly and the Family Stone to India! ;-)

Here's a trivia tidbit you may like. The song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" (on the more modern disc, from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi) is a tribute to earlier Bollywood movies, and each verse mentions and incorporates music from a different movie. The last verse is a tribute to Hum Kisise Kum Nahin: right around 4:50, you hear a horn section, then voices singing "ba ba ba" and then "zu zu zu" - you'll find that exact music about three minutes into "Bachna Ae Hasinon Lo Main Aa Gaya" on the other CD!!!