Dilwale (Indian Film)
A man and his younger brother get embroiled with a silly drug kingpin. Somehow people manage to fall in love and we learn their backstories in Rohit Shetty’s car-chasing blow’em-up style.
A man and his younger brother get embroiled with a silly drug kingpin. Somehow people manage to fall in love and we learn their backstories in Rohit Shetty’s car-chasing blow’em-up style.
I took a look at my IMDb whack history to see how many actual new-to-me films I had caught this past 2013, and made up a list of thirty films I loved seeing for the first time.
YES! I did it. It’s been sitting on my To Do List for over two years, but I finally did it.
It’s been… maybe three months since I started out with Jenna’s Beginner’s Guide to Indian Cinema. What’s the journey been like?
Well, Indian stories live up to the titles of their films, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…, which apparently translates to ‘sometimes happiness, sometimes sad’ really contains moments of pure elation followed by moments to crush your heart.
This overly-long melodramatic rom-com is the best fluff I’ve watched in a very long time, as we follow a man looking to reconnect with his ex-best-friend.
The film’s plot is simple and straight forward enough- a proper girl of an Indian family living in London is betrothed to her father’s friend but before she leaves London, she sets out to tour Europe with her girl friends, when she meets Raj.