Tadap Tadap: yeah, dance on my heart, will ya?

[dangermousie]

Because of my recent Bollywood kick, I went youtubing and found this:

This the the song 'Tadap Tadap' and the preceding scenes from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam with Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan. I find the movie flawed (the ending makes me want to spit nails) but it has some amazing images and some really haunting moments, and really great chemistry between Aish and Salman. I would kill to have them make another movie together, but considering their 'once a real life couple then break-up from hell' I consider that as likely as the sun freezing over. Pity. He was the only costar she had really scorching chemistry with, even better than her excellent chemistry with SRK.

So pretty. How can you not want to check out Bollywood?

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Because there are still 50 bajillion doramas I have yet to checkout, not to mention various animes and US shows?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Come on! Bollywood is so much shorter than dramas and shows.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

which actually works against it for me...I like to have time to get invested, but not to drag and wallow.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Huh? But just think how many movies there are...all over three hours long...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

hrm...well...you're allowed to point me at a juicy historical epic or something, but I make no promises.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Bollywood is not big on period epics, but among the small group you can check out Asoka (which I love to pieces), Mangal Pandey (or The Rising, not aure which name it goes by). There is going to be Jodha-Akbar coming out later this year with swords and elephants and horses...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

details?

BTW, I say historical because, lets face it, thebest way to real me in to something is costumes, period politics and socially and/or politically complicated or doomed love.

And I know you'll rec something angsty, and my angst tolerance level is pretty much endless when it comes to period pieces, not as much so for contemporary tales.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

gimme some time and I'll come up with an enticing summary.

Btw, most Bolly movies are cotton candy, nowhere near aaaaangsty as dramas.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Ok, so, I thought Ash was AMAZING in this movie, though my dad doesn't agree. This was the movie she won me over in. And yeah, this is pretty much the best part of the movie.

My dad was saying that when he watched this movie, he wondered if BW was brave enough to have the wife run off with her lover, but of course, they weren't yet. :P

And seriously, the cutting scene had me rolling on the floor in agony. Ugh. Just. Ugh.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ash was wonderful in this. I generally find her very uneven but she is always good in SLB movies.

he wondered if BW was brave enough to have the wife run off with her lover, but of course, they weren't yet. :P


I really hope they would have been. I would have loved the movie then. Because seriously. Ajay's character? Amazing guy. But the fact that she stayed with him at the end made no sense when they portrayed this undying Nandini-Sameer love earlier, or from feminist point and just...guuuuh. She is going to wake up next to him five years from then and look at this man she has nothing in common and just flip. And then run off to find Sameer. Yeah, I should write fanfic.

And seriously, the cutting scene had me rolling on the floor in agony. Ugh. Just. Ugh.

I know. Though it really goes to the ending. I just couldn't buy her as happy in her marriage when the thought of having to marry Ajay and never having Sameer made her slit her wrists. It's not something one just handwaves. And I hated her family so much after this, because they still made her go through it, and I hated Ajay by default because it was his push for the wedding that made this all happen. I guess I identified too much with Nandini in the first half so her being trapped was horrible and her deciding to ultimately not go to Sameer but stay with Ajay felt like such a sell-out because I didn't get the sense that she was over Sameer or really fell for Ajay but she was oldfashioned and felt all the gratitude and OK, I shuld stop. There is a reason why the end of this movie makes me spit nails.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Agreed, SLB and Rituparna Gosh bring out the best in her, for sure.

Hahaha. Well, I think BW definitely made up for it by a hundred fold with all of the crazy affair movies that have sprung up recently...

Yeah, I definitely saw the ending in two ways. In one, she realized her husband was a good man, and for that reason, stayed with him. Not really that she LOVED him. But you can also watch it and feel that this EXTREMELY NAIVE girl (because, she definitely was, as is shown in the beginning) fell for the wonderment and romance that Sameer brought, but as she got to know her husband, she realized there is more to love than just that initial rush, or the romantic fantasies and flirting that she and Sameer had.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I would have been OK with the latter, but IMO it would have been a very different movie because SLB pulled out all the stops in the first case to showcase the romance and the angst and the OTP of Salman/Ash, all the Bolly shorthands for true love. And he only introduced Ajay halfway through! This movie should have been better written.

Amd LOL on affairs...

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Kind of how I feel about Devdas when Rukhie tells Madhuri that he loves her. I was totally WTF there. I love Chandramukhi, but C'MON, he is drinking himself to death for Paro, but he ALSO loves Chandramukhi?! At first I thought it was just some filmi device, but I've read the Devdas story, and that really happens... *shrugs*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think in Devdas it was his 'gift' to her. He didn't love her in the same consuming romantic way as he did Paro but he cared for her because she was so good to him. Not romantically though.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

I kind of agree, but at the same time, it dropped the movie a few pegs the first time I saw it...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I didn't mind it.

Did you read that SLB said something to the effect that this was kinda like Nandini after marriage or similar. I don't like her ending up with Ajay but even I went wtf? Unless he meant that Paro=Sameer and Chandra=Ajay and Dev=Nandini only this time he wasn't able to divest and make a choice? No idea.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

Maybe because Paro married that other man, but was still in love with Dev? Even though she was faithful to her husband, at the same time, she kept her love for Dev "ignited"? ;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it would make sense...

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude! I've seen that! What are the odds that the one Bollywood available at my local Rogers is the same Bolly?

Heh.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heh. Neat. It's not my favorite Bolly movie by far, but I do adore this sequence (and a lot of the musical numbers).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I must ask...what's that icon from?

Looking at it makes me want to squeal "CORDY!!!!"(as in, Buffy/Angel character) though I'm pretty sure that's not Charisma Carpenter.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

From the new Bollywood movie Salaam-e-Ishq. Actress Priyanka Chopra. (Also see this icon). Her character is a bit Cordyish :)

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I am speechless.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Sppechless good or speechless bad?