Mother Jones's "Bollywood for Beginners" special features clips from ten must-see Bollywood movies along with commentary. A fine way to spend an hour or two in a clicktrance…
3) Sholay (1975): They call this a Curry Western. Take one part John Wayne, two parts bromance, stir in the subaltern heros of the 1970s and the star power of Amitabh Bachchan, and you have Sholay, the most watched Bollywood movie of all time.
Synopsis: Jay (Bachchan) and Veeru (Dharmendra) are a couple of small-time crooks whose cunning and moral uprightness win them a special place in the heart of Thakur Baldev Singh, a local lawman who wants revenge against a gangster so mean, his name is still synonomys with evil.
Bonus: It's a tie, between Bollywood's most evil villian, Gabar Singh, and the loveable buddiness of Jay and Veeru, who were bromancing thirty years before it was an MTV show.
Video: Bollywood for Beginners
(via Beyond the Beyond)
- Bollywood portrait as holiday card – Boing Boing
- Bum Bum Bhole from Bollywood film – Boing Boing
- Bollywood film posters as t-shirts – Boing Boing
- Bollywood LP covers – Boing Boing
- Bollywood's Good Girls Learn to Be Bad – Boing Boing
- Can Bollywood beat Hollywood? – Boing Boing
- Old Bollywood cover of I Wanna Hold Your Hand video – Boing Boing
