Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bollywood jai ho.

So, after a long time I've been watching a Bollywood movie and the movie we got out of our monthly DVD service happened to be Dabang. I had seen parts of this during my last trip to India and it appeared to be a laugh riot, so it was worth watching this on DVD compared to what you get on the back of a airline seat. The story is typical Bollywood - take all the cliches, think about a large number, multiply the 2 - then take the result and raise it to itself. Angry step-father, righteously corrupt (Robinhoodesque) police officer, dumb step-brother, favouritism, a corrupt police force that still reaches late to a crime scene, the vivacious but stubborn leading lady with an equally stubborn drunk dad, stunts typically stolen from the Matrix ( replace bullets with flying glass panes in slow motion) , the Transporter ( the oil layered fight scenes) and what not . A villain who tries to shoot sallu with a powerful sniper rifle and misses 25 shots ...

Some of the dialogues were simply laugh riots - chedi singh ham aapke badan mein itney ched kar dengey ki kahaan se saans  logey aur kahaan sey .... Typical Salman Khan dialogues,  some nice music and a nice way of spending an evening with the wife.