Just Imagine

[kaitou]

So it's really all flidgetjerome's fault for introducing me to Bollywood in the first place. I have digital cable, and it lets you do some on-demand type things for certain channels. And one of them is all Bollywood movies. You have to pay for them, which is why I never did in the first place, but last night I gave in and watched a movie called Krrish.

Krrish is a superhero origin story, and....ZOMG it's 10 kinds of adorable. Krishna starts out as a young boy with amazing physical and mental powers, so his grandmother freaks out and hides him in the mountains. There he grows to be not so much Clark Kent as Heidi of the Alps. So he's sweet and smart and can jump tall mountains in only a very few bounds, oh yeah, and talk to animals. He eventually meets Lois Lane Priya who is camping on the mountain, and falls like a million bricks. She and her friend Honey get Krishna to follow them back to Singapore. His sweet old granny tells him not to reveal any of his amazing powers, which results in masked crime fighting! Yay!

And because this is Bollywood there is singing and dancing along with the wirework and cgi fight scenes. Anyway, it's a totally adorable movie, and I highly reccomend it if you can find it.

Comments

[flidgetjerome.livejournal.com]

I showed you one movie!

ONE MOVIE!!

I am not responsible for this new addiction of yours.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

You are responsible for all addictions. You've known me for what, 7, 8 years? You KNOW how easily I fall in love with stuff.

[dreamingcanyon.livejournal.com]

I grew up watching Bollywood movies on TV as a kid. They were mostly unsubtitled, and I don't know any South Asian languages, but the song sequences had a universal quality in expressing feelings and relationships that I could appreciate even without understanding the words. If there are any Indian video stores where you live (sometimes they're inside grocery stores), I recommend renting older movies from the 60s-80s. The newer ones have big budgets that make for glitzy special effects and set designs, but somehow I felt that the older ones, despite or maybe because of their lack of as many resources to show off, showed more sincerity in emotions than current ones that I've seen IMO.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

*nod* Unfortunately Dayton doesn't seem to have much in the way of an Indian population. I'm pretty lucky to have the stuff on pay-per-view international. Do you have any recommendations? I could go hunting for things when I go back to visit my parents next.

(Also, I am very lame, and the very idea of an all singing all dancing superhero spectacle is enough to tickle me pink)