BW: Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Koi...Mil Gaya, Shakti: The Power

Nobody's been posting, so I'll have to come up with something, as usual (name that movie!). Too bad for you guys, because it's going to be about Bollywood!
Here's a list of the movies I've seen


Krrish ****
Om Shanti Om *****
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai *****
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... ****1/2
Kal Ho Naa Ho ****1/2
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ****
Shakthi: The Power ***
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani **1/2
Deewana ***
Koi... Mil Gaya ***1/2


Here's a video of my favorite dance number so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRKIVMq2nk
Here's my second favorite dance number: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE2rjfZvcmw
Here are just some other good songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTJN6NAQvs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qdxryQB0nU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuftkREQ54


This week I watched Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Koi...Mil Gaya, and Shakti: The Power. PBDHH was pretty lame. Starring Shah Rukh Kahn and Juhi Chawla, it was about dueling news reporters. The romance was paltry at best, and SRK had an earring, but the political corruption story that develops was pretty great. Very riveting by the end, but again, lame, unlikable romance.
Koi...Mil Gaya is the prequel to Krrish. Hrithik Roshan plays Rohit Mehra, Krishna's father. It is the alien story that's hinted at in Krrish. It was made before Krrish, so is it really a prequel? or just the first of the two? Anyway, it was cute, and Hrithik Roshan did very well, but he beat out SRK in Kal Ho Naa Ho for this performance and in my opinion he maybe shouldn't have. But I get the feeling that the 2004 Filmfare awards with Koi...Mil Gaya was like the year the last Lord of the Rings came out (what do you know, 2004!) and totally gyped a lot of other good movies at the Oscars (Master and Commander, cough cough). So yeah, it was good though. Preity Zinta was the love interest so she did double duty that year, actually triple. She was nominated for K...MG and Kal Ho Naa Ho, but won for KHNH.
Shakti: The Power was intense! s'bout an Indian couple in Canada that gets married and has a kid, then you find out the supposedly alone in the world husband has a parents and sibs in a remote village in India. When the mom might have gotten hurt by a bomb they go over to check on them. Turns out the dad's a crime lord and there's a huge rivalry. The husband gets brutally murdered and the rest of the movie is about the wife trying to escape w/ their son b/c her father-in-law wants to keep him and turn him into a crime boss as well. It was nuts! Really violent actually. I ended up fast forwarding through a lot of the car bombs and murders. Karisma Kapoor played the wife, Sanjay Kapoor (not related) is the husband. SRK plays a drifter that helps the wife escape. It was a very dramatic movie that wasn't really the Bollywood I'm used to, but it seems like there are more and more violent, not so happy go lucky films coming out. There were only like 3 songs, one of which was a dream SRK's character had where he danced w/ Aishwarya Rai. It was just a really draining movie.


So yeah, last night Marth and I watched Om Shanti Om b/c she hadn't seen it. I forget how totally extraordinarily awesome that movie is!

I bought Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Jodhaa Akbar b/c I'm dying to see them. Well, I bought RNBDJ b/c Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani disappointed me and it was 1 am. I bought JA b/c if I spent $9 more I got free shipping :). I'm excited for them to come. RNBDJ is SRK's newest movie.

So there. If you don't want another Bollywood entry you should post yourself. Well, I'll post more Bollywood anyway, but you should post.

Shelby out.