Comments on: 3 subtitled movies

By: naeema

naeema — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:00:08 +0000

hey, i hav no idea how i came upon this but wow anime fan and hindi fan too? cool, jus like me. I SEEN THAT MOVIE. that movie is good, i seen like 5 yrs ago, but it still so good. u should try and see chori chori. well, ttul.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:01:54 +0000

That’s ok, if I get seriously into Bollywood movies I might consider buying it

By: Tanuki

Tanuki — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:53:02 +0000

Unfortunately, you might have to buy it. Sorry, I didn’t think to check Netflix out before making my suggestion. I’d offer to lend you my copy, but suspect you’d be just as happy not giving out your address to total strangers. I got the DVD for about $12 from Nehaflix, which isn’t a bad place to get Indian films, as such things go. They claim no responsibility for the technical quality of their DVDs, since that depends (they explain) upon the quality of material they have to work with …

Anyway. There are some screenshots and a short, slightly tongue-in-cheek review at:

http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/apr03.htm#hanuman

That picture of Shiva and Parvathi on a papier mache bull gives you some idea of the inadvertant risibility for western audiences to which I referred — but it’s all done with great sincerity. Sit back, relax, open your mind, go with the flow, and you’ll probably find this thing gets to you.

Tanuki

By: tangognat

tangognat — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:41:04 +0000

No, I really haven’t seen many Bollywood movies at all yet. That movie sounds good, but it looks like my library doesn’t have it and neither does netflix. I’ll try to keep an eye out for it though!

By: Tanuki

Tanuki — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:07:34 +0000

In re: Bollywood films: have you encountered Jai Bajrang Bali, the 1976 film directed by Chandrakant?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157845/

It’s the tale of Hanuman the monkey king and how he helps rescue Rama’s wife Sita from Ravana, who had kidnapped her. Bollywood musical in style, and it can come across to western sensibilities as rather humorous — especially when it comes to special effects — when I suspect no humour was intended. This is a religious movie, after all. Still, much of the music is wonderful (of course, I happen to like Indian music), and the emotion is sincere. I found myself rather misty-eyed at the ending. Great story, too.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:05:32 +0000

It is really good - rent it if you can. Wow, I had no idea that at one point an American remake was in the works, somehow I don’t think the movie would translate into a remake all that well.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:07:53 +0000

I missed After Life in theatres and it’s always interested me, so it was nice to read a review. The premise is one that has haunted me… how could a single memory be picked?

A few years ago an American remake was in the works, but that seems to have disappeared in development. Amy Heckerling was attached to direct.