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dangermousieThe random movie recommendation of the day is Chalte Chalte, a delightful Bollywood movie about love at first sight, and what happens to that love once the happy couple ties the knot.
The first half is a breezy fairy tale, as we meet Raj and Priya. He is an owner of a small trucking company, she is a Greek expat fashion designer from an upperclass family. He loses her phone number, and she is engaged to someone else. He is incredibly impulsive and she is entirely too level headed. Love triumphs, of course. In fact, if the movie stopped after the first hour and a half, it would still be one of the most fairy-talish delightful confections I've seen come out of Bollywood.
But here comes the twist. These people who fell in love after a whirlwind courtship are married. And now the fact that they are opposites doesn't seem so romantic after all. He ignores her and watches TV. She yells at him to pick up his shoes. They argue and bicker and drive each other crazy, and make up passionately and love each other. And then money troubles come in, and the fact that her family has never liked him, and... Basically watch for yourself to find out. All I will say is that I find the ending one of the most realistic and yet sweetest in all of Bollywood.
If you need more reasons, it stars Bollywood's biggest star, Shahrukh Khan, and one of Bollywood's most popular "heroines," Rani Mukherjee. It has lovely stretches filmed in Greece, great song and dance numbers, fun secondary characters, Rani in beautiful outfits, and Shahrukh looking to die for in stonewashed jeans.
The first half is a breezy fairy tale, as we meet Raj and Priya. He is an owner of a small trucking company, she is a Greek expat fashion designer from an upperclass family. He loses her phone number, and she is engaged to someone else. He is incredibly impulsive and she is entirely too level headed. Love triumphs, of course. In fact, if the movie stopped after the first hour and a half, it would still be one of the most fairy-talish delightful confections I've seen come out of Bollywood.
But here comes the twist. These people who fell in love after a whirlwind courtship are married. And now the fact that they are opposites doesn't seem so romantic after all. He ignores her and watches TV. She yells at him to pick up his shoes. They argue and bicker and drive each other crazy, and make up passionately and love each other. And then money troubles come in, and the fact that her family has never liked him, and... Basically watch for yourself to find out. All I will say is that I find the ending one of the most realistic and yet sweetest in all of Bollywood.
If you need more reasons, it stars Bollywood's biggest star, Shahrukh Khan, and one of Bollywood's most popular "heroines," Rani Mukherjee. It has lovely stretches filmed in Greece, great song and dance numbers, fun secondary characters, Rani in beautiful outfits, and Shahrukh looking to die for in stonewashed jeans.
