Stockholm Film Festival

When English King Charles IV built the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, he had it made it look like an Indian palace. On the south shores of a dreary island, he dreamt of another continent. It was a dream of the Orient, of India. During the last years Indian Bollywood productions have taken the world by storm. Kabhi Kushi, Kabhie Gham beats them all. Bollywood films are easy to watch. The plots can be copied straight from any elementary how-to-write-yourown-script paperback. Mix a Franco Sefirelli opera-production with Xanadu, add a little bit of class-conflict, a little bit of English-Indian neo-colonialism, big love and tears, and voila - a Bollywood production! Kabhi Kushi, Kabhi Gham has all that, and even more. The entire elite of Indian beauties are in it, men, women; the multimillion-looking-decorations alone must have made Sefirelli green of envy. It is the visualised dream George IV had, and paradoxically produced in a country as a copy of the dream about India, which Europeans have nourished for hundreds of years. Now we can watch it, and dream along. Jan Hietala 

Premiärstatus

–

Medverkande

Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Shahrukh Khan

Producent

Yash Johar

Manus

Karan Johar

Foto

Kiran Deohans

Musik

Jatin Lalit, Sandesh Shandilya

Talat språk

Hindi

 

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