Today was many of our first experiences with a real Bollywood movie. We went to Bobby Jasoos at the theater after school. If you have never heard of or seen Bollywood movies, I urge you to click the link below and watch the preview to this movie, then imagine that I sat through that for almost three hours (with an included intermission). My goodness was it an experience to laugh at.
To start out with, the entire movie was in Hindi, with no subtitles. This means that the entire three hours was basically left up to self-interpretation. At the end, we all were left with a slightly different tale of what happened. The singing and dancing were, of course, a huge and hilarious part of the movie; but the over-dramatic acting and everything else were just frosting to the cake. That is, a very metaphorical cake that has moving parts, sings a song, and is decorated with so much glitter and sparkles that it appears inedible.
Due to the fact that we could not understand what the characters were saying, it was often difficult to know when things were funny, or even why they were funny. There were countless occasions where we found ourselves laughing so hard, but not because of a joke or something. We were laughing at how clueless we were, which was, perhaps, even more hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTTNn_XEtE
To start out with, the entire movie was in Hindi, with no subtitles. This means that the entire three hours was basically left up to self-interpretation. At the end, we all were left with a slightly different tale of what happened. The singing and dancing were, of course, a huge and hilarious part of the movie; but the over-dramatic acting and everything else were just frosting to the cake. That is, a very metaphorical cake that has moving parts, sings a song, and is decorated with so much glitter and sparkles that it appears inedible.
Due to the fact that we could not understand what the characters were saying, it was often difficult to know when things were funny, or even why they were funny. There were countless occasions where we found ourselves laughing so hard, but not because of a joke or something. We were laughing at how clueless we were, which was, perhaps, even more hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTTNn_XEtE
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