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I'm always woefully behind on foreign language cinema, but after RRR, I started making it a point to check out new Indian releases that make their way stateside. After all, I love action movies with style, I love musicals, I love an earnest tone-- so really, I'm surprised I didn't start checking Indian cinema (especially Indian action cinema) out sooner.
New release movies I've seen this year:
Fighter: if you watched Top Gun and thought "not remotely jingoistic enough!" then this is for you! Look, I love plenty of problematic action, and this is... absolutely that. It was a blast to see with a packed house. Siddharth Anand kinda just has the goods when it comes to movies like this, and it helps that your top three leads are among the best out there doing it. Definitely silly, fascist, melodramatic-- but very much for me.
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan: first half is a pretty tough sit-- very clearly emulating American Ryan Reynolds-style tongue-firmly-in-cheek banter. Second half is a lot better because Prithviraj (also great in Salaar last year) is the only guy given a real character to play. My least favorite that I've seen in theaters in the last couple years.
Kalki 2898 AD: ... kinda loved this? The first 15 minutes is an INSANE exposition dump, but once they get through it, you get all the big stars doing their thing, you get massive ambitious sprawling stuff that alternates between Star Wars and a SyFy Channel original (complimentary!), you get all this religious imagery that I'm not sure adds up but I dig, and you get this deeply committed tone that ultimately made some of the beats here emotionally affecting. Is this "good"? I don't know! Was it a terrific time? Absolutely. Gave me "if Zack Snyder was good" vibes.
Kill: this comes out next week, but I saw it end of last year at an action movie film fest. It fucking rocks. Picture "The Raid on a train," and you're there. Love what they did with the villains here too. Anyone who digs action movies owes it to themselves to check this one out.
Anyone else seen any Indian movies in the last couple years they've really dug?
11/13: Hot Frosty (on Netflix) 11/23: Three Wiser Men & A Boy (on Hallmark) 11/27: Christmas Under the Lights (on Hallmark Mysteries) 12/14: The Santa Class (on Hallmark)
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