Bollywood

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This was my introduction to Bollywood. This is the standard by which I judge all other Bollywood.

A Hindu cop, a Muslim singer and a Catholic gangster walk into a bar...

That sounds like the opening to bad joke. Turn it into three brothers separated as young children and that's the start of the movie.

Amitabh jumps out of a giant Easter Egg to impress the girl. Don't miss the transvestite backup band or the Bad Guy in his fringed poncho (which he wears again in Disco Dancer). He makes other fashion statements with his pink scarf and Fudgie the Whale t-shirt.

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The finale takes place in the Bad Guy's underground lair, beneath a graveyard. There's a fist fight, gun fight, sword fight, cobras, Mom falls into a leopard pit which means Big B has to rescue her using a circus trick. Then there's a doomsday device designed to blow the place to smithereens. Review

Bollywood ninja movie with sound track from Star Wars. The subtitles disappear for the last 20 or so minutes. If you've seen Where Eagles Dare, you won't miss a thing. It's the same sequence. Review Review

Once again, Pran has a complicated relationship with The Law and a long lost son.

I never figured out the plot to this one. Nothing ever quite made sense. This is a movie to watch for the images. Ignore the plot. If there is one, it isn't coherent.

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Gotta love that head-shaking dance at the beginning, the butler's entrance, the butler's dream sequence and Helen's dance on the beach. Review Review

Tedious morality tale. Divorce is bad. Drugs are bad.

Santoshi is a 'recent' goddess who didn't make the Big Time until this movie came out. Other than the initial Ganesh sequence, I can't say I enjoyed this movie. It dragged.

This movie pleasantly surprised me. While I think it may be a repurposing of a French film I vaguely remember seeing many years ago, this movie still kept my attention.

Gotta love the blonde wig hat and the girl-band with the sax solo on the beach.

It starts with a Good Guy catching a plane by roping it (as one might hypothetically do with a horse or runaway steer) and continues with the Big B in a priest garb jumping out of a giant cake instead of a giant egg while background dancers cavort. The women are in flamenco dress while the men look as if they should be the band on a Dixieland steamboat.

I still want to know how they got the horse out of the pool.

My 'summary.'

I thought I'd ordered the 1961 version starring Helen. I received the 1987 version starring Sridevi. Naturally, there were a few nods to her heritage as a snake. While this isn't the movie I expected, it's still surreal enough for my taste. It has a flying monkey. The Bad Guy lives in an underground lair and refers to himself in the third person. His minions wear capes. The lair has humanoid robots. The island blows up in the final scene.

Depressing. Big B's character dies AND doesn't get the girl.

Marrying a metaphorical snake will turn out badly. But marrying a real snake can have certain advantages, especially if the snake has superpowers.

Imagine a Ron Jeremy clone running around with a trident and turning snakes into people. This is the sequel to Nigahen. The subtitles disappear at one point. Don't worry. They return slightly out of sync about 20 minutes later.

I wonder if Sridevi found herself typecast as a snake.

Submarine chase filmed in a bathtub. Remix

Another sad movie. Yes, the couple ends up together in the end but not before finding each other trying to swim through a flooded river while corpses float by. This isn't a happy movie.

Starring Rekha. Cameo by the guy with the impossible moustache riding a donkey.

This movie has many of the same actors and plot contrivances as AAA. This becomes confusing at times. This time, it's the long-lost brother who goes blind, not Mom. 'Robert' (from AAA) is still evil but this time he's the adopted father, not the biological father. Big B ends up with Rekha instead of Parveen Babi. There's still the same plot of two brothers separated as young children and reunited as adults.

Most characters get shot in the arm.

Visually stunning

Don't bother.

This has one of my favorite dance sequences with Helen dancing her way out of a giant eye. The plot (as usual) isn't coherent but this is still a very fun movie. At one point, the heroine goes after the hero (before she falls in love with him) by directing her field hockey team to attack. As she explains it "Rocky and hockey. Doesn't it rhyme?"

I found this movie tedious. I'll give my copy away as a 'prize' at some future event.