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Last night, I saw Black on DVD.
It was quite hammy and absurd in its first half, and fairly copied from that Helen Keller film with the Laura Ingalls girl in it, but then, in the second half, it grew on me.
It's about a deaf-blind girl whose wildness is tamed by a teacher. When she grows up, she falls in love with the teacher but it cannot be.
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I also saw Dhoom 2 which had its longueurs but one highlight was a full-on, mouth-to-mouth kiss. Now, this is rare in Hindi films. So I was surprised when Black also featured one! Between an elderly gent and a young deafblind girl! It is very sexy and well-done; there is much angst and tenderness.
Heeh. Bollywood kisses. Somehow the rarer they are, the sexier they seem to me when they appear.
Dhoom 2 kiss on youtube
Black kiss Rani Mukherjee / Amitabh Bachchan: sadly not youtubed. :-( Yet I found it the lovelier kiss.
Also: Rani practically throws herself at Amitabh. And because of the blindness thing, the age difference is interestingly nuanced: she can't see him, after all. She's not put off. She's also a true innocent. But whoa, she's the one who makes the moves, and Amitabh is totally thrown into disarray.
Her lovely line afterwards: In giving me dignity as a woman, you lost your dignity as a teacher.
It was quite hammy and absurd in its first half, and fairly copied from that Helen Keller film with the Laura Ingalls girl in it, but then, in the second half, it grew on me.
It's about a deaf-blind girl whose wildness is tamed by a teacher. When she grows up, she falls in love with the teacher but it cannot be.
( Read more... )
I also saw Dhoom 2 which had its longueurs but one highlight was a full-on, mouth-to-mouth kiss. Now, this is rare in Hindi films. So I was surprised when Black also featured one! Between an elderly gent and a young deafblind girl! It is very sexy and well-done; there is much angst and tenderness.
Heeh. Bollywood kisses. Somehow the rarer they are, the sexier they seem to me when they appear.
Dhoom 2 kiss on youtube
Black kiss Rani Mukherjee / Amitabh Bachchan: sadly not youtubed. :-( Yet I found it the lovelier kiss.
Also: Rani practically throws herself at Amitabh. And because of the blindness thing, the age difference is interestingly nuanced: she can't see him, after all. She's not put off. She's also a true innocent. But whoa, she's the one who makes the moves, and Amitabh is totally thrown into disarray.
Her lovely line afterwards: In giving me dignity as a woman, you lost your dignity as a teacher.