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10/10
Mind bending, eye overwhelming, uplifting life experience.
28 April 2007
Forty plus years ago, when I sat in a third run theater on Hollywood Blvd watching Lawrence of Arabia, I knew that my life must change and that I had to get out there, into the world, and enjoy what it had to offer. Fortunately I was able to do so to a significant degree. Since that time, I have never had a cinematic experience that not only equaled it but exceeded it, in that way. The film opens in the Himilayas at 16,000' altitude and proceeds to take you higher and higher. After 2 1/2 hours you wish it would not end. Not only the landscape of the mountain passes but the real people who live there made my eyes want to be able to see more, deeper, faster with greater ability to never forget what I saw. I'm really confident that this film will stand the test of time on that issue. It is a story that I would not believe could be told on film being down and dirty exotic real life and at the same time an uplifting spiritual experience. I'll see it again as soon as they get a distributor.
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10/10
Fantastic fun!
12 February 2005
The most fun I've had at the movies in years!!(And I am a movie junkie, just like you). Every character, nationality, movie genre, culture and cultural foible lampooned equally in appropriate great/bad taste. If you can't handle that, I feel sorry for you. Of course, I do have an advantageous perspective, being an Anglo and having spent my life in L.A., London and India and have been married to a beautiful Indian lady for 30 years. I could never sit all the way through a Bollywood movie before, but this was non-stop hyper-entertainment. More jokes, funny songs, nice songs, funny dancing, color, pretty ladies, classic stereotypes and a classic story told in a completely original way. I wanted to watch it again, before we left the theater.
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