Puppy Love Blooms Eternal: Bobby
Oct. 25th, 2005 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am watching the 1970s Bollywood classic smash hit Bobby, the progenitor of all the rich neglected boy, starved of love by his distant shallow family, falls in love with poor, warm-hearted girl from a loving family, and angst ensues stories Bollywood has done ever since.
Yes, there are cheesy bits (and the 1970s fashions are...heeee), but there is just such spontaneous, disarming freshness about it: just the way they interact has this real feeling about it: the way Bobby (the heroine's nickname) is clearly telegraphing her youth while trying to seem worldly, and the way Raj is so simply, uncomplicatedly taken with this pretty girl and giddy with it. And then there is the mutual and so new power of knowing that the other likes you, and he/she is cute and you are attracted and this is all so new...
It really helps that both Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, who became megastars with this film (it was the first movie for both of them I think, though Rishi might have been in one flick as a kid) are teenangers themselves and have crazy chemistry to boot. Plus, love the soundtrack!
Yes, there are cheesy bits (and the 1970s fashions are...heeee), but there is just such spontaneous, disarming freshness about it: just the way they interact has this real feeling about it: the way Bobby (the heroine's nickname) is clearly telegraphing her youth while trying to seem worldly, and the way Raj is so simply, uncomplicatedly taken with this pretty girl and giddy with it. And then there is the mutual and so new power of knowing that the other likes you, and he/she is cute and you are attracted and this is all so new...
It really helps that both Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, who became megastars with this film (it was the first movie for both of them I think, though Rishi might have been in one flick as a kid) are teenangers themselves and have crazy chemistry to boot. Plus, love the soundtrack!
