Bollywood recommendations

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » December 13, 2006, 3:28 pm

Netflix appears to be expanding their sellection of films from Bollywood. Can anyone recommend a couple of the better films, with a short description? I love old American musicals, so the song/dance routines in many of them wouldn't be a turn off I suspect.

Drolgin Steingrinder · December 13, 2006, 4:22 pm

I haven't seen that many, but I remember a few:

"Black" was pretty good. It's loosely based on the story of Helen Keller - young blind and deaf girl meets eccentric semi-alcoholic teacher who sees his own salvation in teaching her. It won a load of awards, if I'm not mistaken.

"Maqbool" (I think it was called, spelling might be off) is a Bollywood-ized version of Macbeth, very interesting to watch.

I've also heard good stuff about Parineeta and Monsoon Wedding, they got pretty good reviews when they showed here, as did a few others I'll try and find.

Oh, and Lagaan was awesome, in a kinda campy way. The cinematography and the score were really impressive - and how can you not like a romantic-historic-anti-imperialistic movie that lets a game of cricket (between English colonialists and poor villagers of India) decide the outcome of a whole people?

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » December 13, 2006, 4:49 pm

Saw Monsoon Wedding and I really liked it. Made me consider having an Indian-style wedding. So much prettier than American weddings!

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » December 13, 2006, 10:20 pm

you'd just look weird having an indian wedding and all your friends would make fun of you when you werent around.

when you say bollywood do you mean only musicals?

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » December 14, 2006, 12:56 am

The Terrorist is still one of the best movies I have ever seen, thanks for reminding me of it.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » December 14, 2006, 4:05 pm

kyoukan wrote:you'd just look weird having an indian wedding and all your friends would make fun of you when you werent around.

when you say bollywood do you mean only musicals?

No, just mentioned that I'm not opposed to musicals (some people hate them)

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » December 14, 2006, 11:52 pm

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trk ... d=70047320

Awesome Indian flick.

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?mov ... 3_8&hnjr=5

Also very good!