Remind us never to be sober while watching a Bollywood film.
One needs to be sufficiently fortified with Bacchus to be able to endure the ordeal of a Hindi film.
Old or new movie, it matters little.
The other day we watched Dharmatma (1975), the first of several instances of Bollywood purloining the Godfather for the benefit of the Indian schmucks.
And the Verdict?
What can we say?
Hideously awful would be an understatement to describe this Bollywood perversion.
Surely, it must be an act of divine providence that we survived this intensely painful ordeal.
The principal sadist behind Dharmatma was the late Feroz Khan (of Qurbani fame), who besides aborting this malformed, ill-begotten fetus, as producer and director, also starred in it.
Filmed mainly in Afghanistan when the benighted land still had some semblance of a government, Dharmatma has yesteryear star Prem Nath donning the role of the crime lord, Feroz Khan as his honorable, and natürlich, estranged son and Hema Malini as the colorfully-costumed Afghan gypsy girl.
Imtiaz Khan, Jeevan, Ranjeet, Sudhir, Rekha, Madan Puri and Farida Jalal round out the rest of the cast.
Both Hema Malini and Rekha play Feroz’s love interests in this asinine copy of the Godfather.
Almost everything about the movie screams amateur – the Indianized story, the acting, costumes, the dances, stunts et al. Continue reading »
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