10-15-2014, 11:56 AM
Kal Ho Naa Ho translates as "There May Or May Not Be A Tomorrow."
Doomers born and raised in India will love this movie. It gets a remarkably high imdb rating of 8.5 and did exceptionally well there. Set in New York where “the lifestyle is hectic,” everything about this movie is hectic: endless rapid-fire exchanges in group settings (don’t even try to keep up with the subtitles), cultural jokes that pass over an American's head in the stratosphere, with so many mistaken identities that it grows tedious, a big dance number using a huge American flag as backdrop, further flag-waving throughout, and with a very sappy “terminal disease” love affair at its core.
A rare misfire for Shah Rukh Khan, whose character just doesn't work in this one (from my perspective anyway).
The movie has a diverse ethnicity in its dance numbers and types of dancing, which for Indian Doomers could be strongly appealing. But even the music and dance choreography struck me as hectic, and I couldn't relax into any of this for even a moment of enjoyment.
This movie demonstrates the danger of relying on imdb ratings for foreign cinema.
Doomers born and raised in India will love this movie. It gets a remarkably high imdb rating of 8.5 and did exceptionally well there. Set in New York where “the lifestyle is hectic,” everything about this movie is hectic: endless rapid-fire exchanges in group settings (don’t even try to keep up with the subtitles), cultural jokes that pass over an American's head in the stratosphere, with so many mistaken identities that it grows tedious, a big dance number using a huge American flag as backdrop, further flag-waving throughout, and with a very sappy “terminal disease” love affair at its core.
A rare misfire for Shah Rukh Khan, whose character just doesn't work in this one (from my perspective anyway).
The movie has a diverse ethnicity in its dance numbers and types of dancing, which for Indian Doomers could be strongly appealing. But even the music and dance choreography struck me as hectic, and I couldn't relax into any of this for even a moment of enjoyment.
This movie demonstrates the danger of relying on imdb ratings for foreign cinema.
I'm nobody's pony.