IMDb plot summary: Laal Singh Chaddha, a simple man whose extraordinary journey will fill you with love, warmth, happiness and will also make you laugh.
Directed by Advait Chandan. Starring Aamir Khan, Ahmad Ibn Umar, and Kareena Kapoor.
Laal Singh Chaddha is an Indian remake of the 1994 Oscar winner Forrest Gump, following a man with below-average intelligence who ends up doing a series of extraordinary things and making his mark on the world in his search to find what makes him happy. For most of the film, this sticks EXTREMELY close to the original, even down to mimicking the costume design and even some of the exact same shots used to portray specific moments in the '94 film. One of the few significant changes it makes is greatly reducing the amount of voiceover. We still see Laal sharing his story with strangers, but many of the events are shown without commentary, which means we often are drawing our own conclusions about how he feels about what's going on. It has the same disability portrayal that rides the line of being infantilizing (and for some folks goes right over it) and I keep going back and forth on whether this movie does it better or worse than Hanks' portrayal, and I still am not sure. Hanks is hands down more charming, but on the other hand, that's what makes Laal feel like a more plausible character. As a whole, though, the two are so similar that I wouldn't recommend seeing this if you've already seen the other, and vice versa.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Laal Singh Chaddha > Forever Young
Laal Singh Chaddha < Anna Karenina
Laal Singh Chaddha < The Romantics
Laal Singh Chaddha < You Can Count on Me
Laal Singh Chaddha < Summer of Soul
Laal Singh Chaddha > Chasing Amy
Laal Singh Chaddha < The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
Laal Singh Chaddha > Phantom Thread
Laal Singh Chaddha > The Score
Laal Singh Chaddha > The Matrix Reloaded
Laal Singh Chaddha > Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Final spot: #1787 out 3747, or 52%.
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