Last night we went to our friend Martine’s house for a Bollywood evening. We started at 4 PM so only had time for two films (given they were each about 3 hours each). We started with “I have found it”, a Bollywood adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen. It was a very good movie, great music and costumes etc. but also a very good adaptation of the story. The second movie was a Hollywood/Bollywood fusion called “Bride and Prejudice” (another Austen re-make, I will let you take a guess as to which book this is based off) which was not so good. There have been a lot of rave reviews of B&P but Dan and I both found the adaptation to be very poor, the main male character to be flat, and the addition of Hollywood values more than a little strange. For one thing, the entire movie is in English and the singing scenes sounded just awful. What would have been perfectly suitable in Hindi or another Indian languate was pure torture to listen to (and watch) in English. Especially the “No life without wife” number, which made me feel I was watching a Disney movie for kids. Ugh.
Dan and I brought vegetarian curry from our favourite restaurant (Pushap) and later on I made masala tea despite the fact that it was at least 30 degrees in her apartment and there was no fan or A/C. Dan and I also brought a copy of Veer-Zaara which is an excellent Bollywood film, but we didn’t have the time to see it. Will have to wait for the next Bollywood movie night.
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