Well I might not be in Bollywood's capital Mumbai but you can't go to India and not watching a Bollywood movie. It was crowded, very crowded and I had to get my ticket half a day earlier as 'Rowdy Rathore' is constantly booked out since it started 10 days ago. Just on the first weekend it made more than US$20 Million - considering that a ticket costs between $1 and $2 and that the entire production was less than $8 Millions it is a real blockbuster. I guess it is the sheer mass of people in this country. A guy started talking to me in the foyer and told me that India is giving birth to the entire population of Australia every year. Bollywood produces 900 movies a year to make them all happy.
I was the only white face in the audience and some guys asked how I could understand the movie without speaking Hindi. Not a problem as they were hardly talking, but dancing and singing - or fighting with the bad boys. Every appearance of the heros received standing ovations. Besides that it was overly dramatic, long, loud, badly acted mixed with a simple (love) storyline. And of course the happy ending: Boy meets girl, boy meets bad boys, drama, drama, drama, tears, blood and the happy happy ending - in this case the girl adopts a child the boy finds and of course marries the boy. On the other hand the dance scenes were brilliant (if you like the music), the judges (if there would be any) would have said: "Great unison". Get 200 pretty ladies and teach them to wiggle their heads, to twist their arms and to shake their bums in their tight sarees in perfect unison like that - congratulations.
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| Most famous Movie Theatre in Jaipur: The Raj Mandir |
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