From time to time I've published video clips of fight scenes from Bollywood movies, usually so over-the-top that they're funny. This collection recently came to my attention. The scenes are so bad they're truly terrible, and defy the laws of physics, nature and everything else . . . but they're still amusing.
Love the bullet (or, rather, the entire cartridge, case, bullet and all) that reverses direction!
Peter
Yep, Indian Cinema ain't about realism, it's about "this sounds cool, let's see it!"
ReplyDeleteThere's a comedy skit out there called something like "What if Bollywood and Hollywood were college roommates" where the characters are film students at college. During one part Hollywood is whining that he can't get a certain action scene he's writing to work becuz physics won't allow it. Bollywood replies "Let me introduce you to the laws of Rohit Shetty Physics. Number 1: The roatational velocity of a car in the air must be constant.... UNLESS Ajay Devgn needs to pull the villain out of the driver's seat! Number 2: Any action... [Hollywood breaks in] "must be countered by an equal and opposite reaction." Bollywood gives him a dirty look and says "Must NOT be countered in an equal and opposite reaction!"
And so on. Let me see if I can find a link to that....
Found it and queued it to the scene. It's only about a minute long, though the whole 11 minute video is well worth watching, though I misremembered a lot and paraphrased it poorly in the prior paragraph it seems --
https://youtu.be/kwt6uasr0mw?si=-gNNS4OLaKRnN1WP&t=182
For a sample of "Rohit Shetty physics" this 5:32 commercial for Instant Chinese food is .. well.. it's a Bollywood film condensed, really. Directed by Rohit Shetty, and featuring an A-list Bollywood star (Ranveer Singh) for our male lead, plus a crossover with an A-list Tollywood star as the lead actress (Tamannaah Bhatia). It doesn't hurt that it's hilariously over-the-top either --
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1V54WjjWI
Persis Khambatta, known in the US from being in the first Star Trek film, was in a Bollywood film bad enough to be on Mystery Science Theater 3000. In that film Warrior of the Lost World, physics and logic were most notable by their absence.
ReplyDeleteDefinition of over the top...
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