Last night in Sikar was a real night on the town. Cassandra, Beanie and I went out for dinner and a movie and got our first real taste of Bollywood. The theatre was an experience in itself. Men and women buy their tickets to the movies in seperate lines and there is arranged seating. Fortunately there was only 15 people in this massive one screen theatre so we sat where we pleased. There's also different ticket prices, like Deluxe, Super Deluxe and some sort of coach seating. We munched on Mirinda (Indian C-Plus) and chips.
We wanted to see "Love Aaj Kal", which is this huge movie here with the main theme being old and new love. But the flick we got to see was "Dil Bole, Hadippa!", which is essentially the Indian version of "She's the Man", about a woman who's an excellent cricket player and has to dress up as a funny little punjabi man to make the national mens team. Men, women and children of all ages to go see this stuff and love it!
It of course had all the requisite over the top song and dance numbers typical of Bollywood, and was pretty entertaining. Chaos and hilarity ensue of course, and although there were no subtitles, we got the gist of it. It even had a positive uplifting ending with a strong message about equality and peace between India and Pakistan. Essentially, the ultimate Indian film. ****/5
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Amazing! You must have been laughing your heads off, it looks so funny! Thanks for keeping the blog up, I love it. Looking forward to next post :D
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