@squaremoon I was in charge of the playlist on a recent trip to Yosemite. It was all Bappi’s music. We finally knew the answer to the spelling quiz in I am a disco dancer chorus (d is for dance, I is for item, s for singer, c for chorus, o for orchestra) hehehe
Message that citizens are not the enemy, the army is (tbh whole army is not too, but that would be asking too much)
Democracy >> Military Rule / Authoritarianism
Hand to Hand Combat
What I didn't like :
sudden drop in frame rates because the director didn't know what should have been shot in slow-motion
Milking :
excess pathan cameo, they just stopped before it could've been cringe.
too many entries of Salman Khan, glorifing him too much, I could easily argue that were characters that deserved more recognition than him.
the national antheme performed inside the Pakistan PM House or whatever, its pure milking through patriotism, everyone in the cinema hall stood for it, if that scene weren't in the movie, it would have been better for me atleast, it felt so unnatural, and how did the girls knew indian antheme, I don't know shit about Pakistan, even if I were some musician I doubt I would ever know that.
Weak Villain, Imran Hashmi was just not potential Wazir-E-Azam in my eyes.
2nd Half feels boring in comparison to 1st Half. The 2nd Half was too focused on 1 story 1 scene.
Note: when a Bollywood "film" is featured in a #HallOfShame post, it is automatically implied that besides plot elements, the “film” has also copied scenes and sequences from the original. 😀
Rewind to 2006:
Today’s “film”, a pioneer of sorts, 😀 plagiarized/cloned a popular Korean movie, becoming one of the earliest Bollywood “films” to do so.
Just watched #fighter. It was a visual masterpiece for me and for the first time i felt like i should have went ahead with the NDA entrance that I cracked after high school, instead of going for engineering.
With nearly 1.5 million aspirants vying for roughly 1,000 seats, it’s helpful to realise that the Indian civil services examination process is a rejection process – and not a selection process. This reality doesn’t always align with popular culture’s heroic narratives of valour, discipline, persistence, and hard work.
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