Imagine James Bond crossed with Mission Impossible. Where Bond is evil,* but delightful company if he doesn't kill you or try to romance you while things are exploding and after he killed your brother and his fiancee. Now toss in a dance number and an evil (but dedicated) female sidekick. And you'd only begin to imagine the wonders of Don 2, which ( Read more... )

I just came back from this and found it quite a bit of fun. There is a hilarious WoW type opening scene that the rest of the video-game action should have been in, IMO. You can never go wrong with SRK wielding a sword, I say.

But...( Cut for spoilers )

Holy Mother of God, the medical student in Ghajini is annoying. I have rarely wanted to shove a character under a bus quite so much. Also, despite how much I like the music of this film, I am finding the dance numbers a bit underwhelming. Even (astonishing!) Guzarish. Even shirtless Aamir fails to impress there. Can the girl not dance at all? Is ( Read more... )

I just spent the afternoon at a friend's house watching the glory that is Tashan. It may have been the company (these people are the BEST for watching Bollywood with), it may have been the amazing Indian food they cooked, it may just be my Saif Ali Khan love taking, but I DON'T CARE. I am willing to announce that it is one of the best* Bollywood ( Read more... )

A bunch of people on my flist seem to be having bad times lately; in an effort to cheer you up I bring you a link to Learn Hindi from Bollywood movies. Even if you are not interested in Bollywood or Hindi it is very funny. I am up to podcast 5 and already I have learned how to deal with rejection (especially if it involves being commanded to put ( Read more... )

In my search for more materials for learning Hindi, I came across the absolutely hilarious "Learn Hindi from Bollywood" podcasts. While it is not really useful for learning the language it is a riot to listen to not just because of the selections the author makes from films, but also because it comes replete with his hysterical commentary. I ( Read more... )

You know what makes me happy? Sholay, the evergreen classic jewel of Bollywood, that's what. And while people have told me of this wonder for a long, long time, teasing me with mentions of dancing on glass to save one's true love and massive amounts of Hoyay THEY SOMEHOW FAILED TO MENTION THE ARMLESS MAN. How could you miss this bit! He is simply ( Read more... )

You know, I never thought I'd see a Bollywood where I thought of the bits with Salman Khan as the good bits.

It's hard to describe this Bollywood film because it couldn't really decide what film it wanted to be; the genre changed about every five minutes. But that's not important. What is important is that because I couldn't quite believe it was as strangely and fascinatingly about the love of Bobby Deol's character for Arjun Rampal's as I remembered, I ( Read more... )

This weekend I saw this and, wow, that's a lot of pretty settings and people all being misused. I'm not even a Hrithik Roshan fan and even I thought he was wasted in this role. The entire plot seemed to be 'let's make everyone in India say how great a ruler Akbar is.' FOR OVER THREE HOURS. Every time you thought it was about to end they had to go ( Read more... )