IMDb plot summary: Miss India and an aspiring actor spend a night together roaming the streets of Mumbai and unwittingly clash paths with a megalomaniacal gangster planning to take over India.
Directed by Ketan Mehta. Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepa Sahi, Javed Jaffrey, and Anupam Kher.
This Bollywood movie tells the story of an unnamed aspiring actor and a prostitute who despite to spend an evening together, only to find themselves mixed up in a mob plot to replace the president of India with a surgically manufactured identical twin. This is obviously a LUDICROUS plot, but it only really becomes the central plot in the film's second half -- the beginning is mostly just the two main characters dancing around India escaping the police, the leading lady's pimp, and the mob boss' son who wants her for himself. It's an over-the-top zany story with some absolutely delightful song and dance numbers. (I particularly liked the dance-off between our hero and the mafia prince.) And the story gets more ridiculous as it continues on -- I chuckled out loud at several moments. It is a good 2 1/2 hours long, like many Bollywood films, but this film really flew by for me. I was having so much fun with it and the characters and wondering what the movie would come up with to throw at us next. Definitely a fun watch.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India < Hoop Dreams
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > Harakiri
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India < Full Metal Jacket
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India < To Kill a Mockingbird
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > All's Faire in Love
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > The Blind Side
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > Ballet Shoes
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > The Trojan Women
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > Inherit the Wind
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > An Education
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India > The Bad Sleep Well
Final spot: #1139 out of 3313, or 66%.
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