Monday, August 13, 2007

Chak de SRK!

I’ve already gotten to see couple movies in Indian theaters, one Hindi film Chak de India and the other one was Rush Hour 3 which I saw with Ami and her friends yesterday. At Adit’s insistence, we’ll be going to see Transformers this Friday, which promises to be a special effects extravaganza with only a dash of plot, as any American summer movie should be.

Chak de India is Shah Ruhk Kahn’s (SRK) latest film, and definitely one of the best Hindi films I’ve seen, probably because it was so unlike typical Hindi films. There was no love triangle or heroine, no song and dance numbers, no cliché romantic storylines, and no too much over-the-top acting. SRK plays a cricketer Kahbir Kahn on Team India who misses the penalty that causes India to lose the World Cup to Pakistan. As a Muslim, Khan is later branded a traitor who intentionally threw the game, forcing him to leave his home in disgrace. Several years later, he remerges to coach India’s National Field Hockey team and exorcise his past demons. The girls on the team are a wonderful spectrum of the diversity of India’s states, and the film nicely developed each girl’s distinct personality, from the rural girls who don’t know English to the prima donnas dressed in the latest fashions. The film did a great job of highlighting issues such as regional differences and gender discrimination, and the script and young actors did effectively made such important topics realistic and believable. SRK also did a wonderful job as usual, losing some of his humorous antics to convey a very realistic and powerful performance, while looking as cute as always. He is my favorite Hindi actor, although since I only know four that may not be saying much. Still, he is undoubtedly one of the best actors in Bollywood, he even has his own statue at Madam Tusseud’s in London.

Indian theaters are also quite an experience. There are usually only 4 screens per theater, so each one is huge with two or three levels. They also have different classes of seats with the cheaper ones like regular-style theater seats, while the ones we had were like armchairs. By far the best movie seats I’ve ever sat in. It’s still funny though, that the theater has intermissions even during English films. It leads to awkward breaks like stopping just as the heroes are captured in Rush Hour. I also learned that you are not supposed to take your trash out with you, like in American theaters. I must have been the only one to do so, and then had to wait until we got outside before I found a trash can.

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