Stuffing

Kal Ho Naa Ho

I watched 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' last night. It's a 3 hour Bollywood film with subtitles that are just wacky, but with a beautiful sad story interspersed with Bollywood singing and dancing. It was funny but it also made me cry my eyeballs out.
I think the main theme of the movie was sacrificial love.

It start out as an ordinary movie- boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love. But the boy (A.) has a heart condition that he doesn't want the girl to find out about so he tells the girl he's married and tries to make her fall in love with another guy. One line is about to be married you not only need love, but you need strength.

Another example of sacrificial love was that one of the fathers (and there is a LOT of family in this movie) had an affair which produced a child and the wife took that child in because the affair-woman(biological mother) did not want to care for it. But they never told anyone (though obviously, it comes out in the movie)

It was a very interesting movie. We only aquired it with help of Myron's Indian colleague who got it in TO. Not much in the way of Bollywood here. I'm taking it to St. C for Easter but if anyone round here wants to borrow it, let me know. It really is worth it, even with crazy subtitles! The music is beautiful and funny as well.

I found out about this movie from these clips to a James Blunt song on you tube Because I am going through a James Blunt phase. The James Blunt song is not in the movie. James Blunt is no Bollywood singer! So you don't get a good feel for the music from the clip, but a bit of the movie.

posted by Aphra @ 3/04/2007 05:46:00 AM