I Love You, Bollywood!

Just finished watching cult classic "Kuch, Kuch, Hota Hai!" from Bollywood, sometimes referred to as an Indian version of "Grease", as it features a love triangle in a school with sing and dance numbers, in the first third of the flick.

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Like many Bollywood movies, it tends to drag on between the songs, but its bright colours, sweet lyrics and bouncy music will have your head bopping and your foot tapping within two bars of the first chords. Plus the actresses Rani Mukherjee and Kajol are as cute and as shapely as can be desired :) Once you're past the school bit, however, hold on to your sari! The plot gets much more interesting, Kajol stops looking like Sporty Spice and looks drop dead gorgeous, and the pacing quickens, and there's a happy ending and I'm a sap for happy endings... Makes me cry every time. Altho there are some freaky scenes around religion that come over kinda weird for westerners, and one memorable charade scene with Bollywood movie titles which feels like you're missing every punchline of Saturday Night Live, this is light years beyond "Grease". As long as you get into the rythm, a wonderful introduction to Bollywood's musical films. If you get a chance to see it, go for it, and get the extra large popcorn :)