Dilwale

[meganbmoore]

 I watched Bollywood's latest Shah Rukh Khan/Kajol offering today. (Technically yesterday now, but whatever.) I can't necessarily say that it was GOOD, but it was pretty entertaining.  The trailer sells the plot as a bad boy who falls for a good girl and pushes her away "for her own good," only to be reunited with her 15 years later, but the only thing about that that's accurate is lovers getting reunited after 15 years. Without involving spoilers, the ACTUAL backstory and plot are much more interesting, and used a lot of tropes I like.  It's mostly for existing SRKajol fans, really, and has a lot of nods to their previous movies.

Instead of the trailer (because it's only exciting for "Oh! New SRKajol movie!) have the video for Gerua, aka, Bollywood's latest attempt at trying and failing to find a color that Kajol doesn't look good in. (Gorgeous musical number, really, but I'm convinced she challenged the costume designer to try to make her look bad for Suraj Hua Maddham in KKKG and they've been trying and failing ever since.) There isn't an embed-able version yet, so have a link: http://youtu.be/2zoIA42nJJc

Comments

[toujours_nigel]

Dilwale was... yeah, not good. Am looking forward to SRK's next couple films, sadly not starring Kajol. :(

[meganbmoore]

It was entertaining and 8t COULD have been good, but it wasn't actually good.

I do want to know how Kajol manages to barely age, though.

[toujours_nigel]

Yeah, that couple, and not remotely a bad concept, and yet.

I do want to know how Kajol manages to barely age, though. Lights under her skin I s2g

[meganbmoore]

I think the main thing that kept it from really being"good" is that it tried too hard to be both an intense melodrama and a fluffy comedy. It needed to pick one and have elements of the other, but not try to go full throttle with both.