01-13-2023, 11:30 PM
Ever have the experience where you doze off watching a film, and then you wake up and the story has moved so much that you can’t recognize what’s going on and suspect your streaming service just rolled you into another film?
I watched this because it’s the latest from Ram Charan, one of the leads in RRR. It began with a sacred village, a source of aryurvedic medicine and devotees of Kali. Gangsters have begun to exploit the village, and a hero arrives to set things right by beating the crap out of all the baddies. And there’s a romance with the local music teacher. There’s a great Kali ritual dance and parade, and a gratuitous wedding dance centered around the bride that’s too hawt to have a normal life, and a romance dance. There’s some amusing fight choreo too, but I’ll come back to that.
Then I nodded off for a bit.
I awoke to a buddy flick about militant forest rebels thwarting a strip mining operation. There’s a bizarre dance with the two buddies, leaders of the rebels (one is the aforementioned hero), dancing with the carbine rifles. They’re fighting evil miners led by a corporate mob boss, whose man at arms plays the entire role with his lips twisted up like some sort of deformity who goes by the obvs name Khilla.
They were the same film, of course, and I had to rewind to sort it. 3+ hour Tollywood films can go a lot of places.
Now to the choreo. It’s hilarious, and oddly cold blooded. Every shot is in hyper-dramatic slo mo, like usual. When the bodies fly, they really fly. A simple strike or throw sends the victim flying dozens of feet through the air to crash into walls, trees, furniture, crockery, puddles, you name it. It’s absurd physics but fun if you settle into it. In one scene, the hero grabs a machine gun, leaps to wrap his legs around a tree, and spins around the trunk several times whilst full auto, mowing down dozens of villains that have encircled him. Another scene has a hero rolling behind a line of gunman, cutting out the backs of their knees with a knife. My fav scene is where the hero buddies are impersonating hired security for the minors, and innocently start stabbing the overseers in the chest and back, apologizing and claiming it’s because of their high blood pressure. There’s a lot of knife stabbings at the end. So many stabbings.
Not D00M recommended, especially if you’re drowsy. But it’s a good fast forward to the fight and dance scenes flick.
I watched this because it’s the latest from Ram Charan, one of the leads in RRR. It began with a sacred village, a source of aryurvedic medicine and devotees of Kali. Gangsters have begun to exploit the village, and a hero arrives to set things right by beating the crap out of all the baddies. And there’s a romance with the local music teacher. There’s a great Kali ritual dance and parade, and a gratuitous wedding dance centered around the bride that’s too hawt to have a normal life, and a romance dance. There’s some amusing fight choreo too, but I’ll come back to that.
Then I nodded off for a bit.
I awoke to a buddy flick about militant forest rebels thwarting a strip mining operation. There’s a bizarre dance with the two buddies, leaders of the rebels (one is the aforementioned hero), dancing with the carbine rifles. They’re fighting evil miners led by a corporate mob boss, whose man at arms plays the entire role with his lips twisted up like some sort of deformity who goes by the obvs name Khilla.
They were the same film, of course, and I had to rewind to sort it. 3+ hour Tollywood films can go a lot of places.
Now to the choreo. It’s hilarious, and oddly cold blooded. Every shot is in hyper-dramatic slo mo, like usual. When the bodies fly, they really fly. A simple strike or throw sends the victim flying dozens of feet through the air to crash into walls, trees, furniture, crockery, puddles, you name it. It’s absurd physics but fun if you settle into it. In one scene, the hero grabs a machine gun, leaps to wrap his legs around a tree, and spins around the trunk several times whilst full auto, mowing down dozens of villains that have encircled him. Another scene has a hero rolling behind a line of gunman, cutting out the backs of their knees with a knife. My fav scene is where the hero buddies are impersonating hired security for the minors, and innocently start stabbing the overseers in the chest and back, apologizing and claiming it’s because of their high blood pressure. There’s a lot of knife stabbings at the end. So many stabbings.
Not D00M recommended, especially if you’re drowsy. But it’s a good fast forward to the fight and dance scenes flick.
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