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This movie is way to exagerated.

posted 16 years ago by Onesimpleguy
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This movie is way to exagerated.there are plenty of scenes which might have been true if it was made 30-40 years earlier.Like I don’t know see goat standing outside discos or restaurants as show in one scene or someone crazy enough to bring whole his family album to his office, that is waaaay to exagerated.and weird too.Some guys might get murti's (statue of gods) but 5-6 is again exagerated..The in one diologue he says there is MG road in every town in india.Thats *beep* been to more then hundred towns and not know to any MG road.Directer is misguided and I think there was some stupid assistant named kapil who seems ultimate a..hole.then in another scene he says it is considered dirty to use left hand ,well I never know until I saw this movie.As I said this movie might depicts india way back in 60's and 70' but I am sure many things don’t exist now.In this movie only hero and heroin seems intelligent while other guys are dumb like director himself.

[–] aromadon 16 years ago

Or, assuming you are Indian (which, if you're not you have no way of knowing if this film is accurate or not), maybe you are just so out of touch with your own culture, or so "modern" that you refuse to respect the old ways that most certainly are still followed by many, many Indians. I don't imagine Richard Gere took the threats on his life too lightly.... not if he had any brains....

[–] anantnet 16 years ago

it certainly doesn't portray anyone as being dumb! you must have watched the movie with a skeptical eye! When I was in India, I was actually told that eating with the left hand is not considered 'proper' and was given the same reason as in the movie. Take from that what you will.

[–] roshan840-1 16 years ago

Just type MG Road in wikimapi/google maps and see the no. of places with that road.
Also,if you are an Indian,didn't your mother tell you that you should always eat with your right hand?
Same goes while your accepting gifts/money from someone.You use your right hand.
The director isn't dumb.You are!

[–] Onesimpleguy 15 years ago

stopping calling me dumb...i can start with as many pages as u like calling u with many names.
First noone ever told us or anyone not to use left hand.

Search wherever u like but still u wont find Mg road in every town.Thats what the diologue says EverY TOWN.And i dont need to google it cuz i been to more then 100 towns without MG roads.

And read what i said ..."things might have been true if it was made 30-40 years earlier"

Its not present india thats what i said..I dont know why few idiots start replying even without knowing what to say

[–] swat412 15 years ago

Actually...I teach English in a small town in Viet Nam...this movie could be transplanted to here with no problem at all. Same plot, same everything except for the 'job' part.

Small example:
Street names...every single solitary town/city/berg in Viet Nam has a street named Nguyen Hue and Pastuer and Dien Bien Phu and few others.

I'm watching the first half again and really hope the power stays on so that I can see the whole thing.

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[–] kausix777 15 years ago

1. Some parts of the movie are exaggerated, like the goat / cow, idols, album, etc. Also, roughly 10% of the working populace may be interested in collages for the office, unlike what is shown here. In fact, it is hard to believe that the operations were running from a rundown (no pun) building. People need to actually visit the infrastructure in cities to believe it. It would also be difficult to shift shop to the terrace in 30 minutes, that is, considering that a severe pipe leakage like that has actually happened. Never heard of any such thing.
2. Most big towns do have MG Roads - Bangalore does and so does Calcutta. There is an M G Road in Delhi but it stands for Mehrauli-Gurgaon road.
3. It IS considered dirty to use the left hand for eating and most Indians know the reason why (I'm surprised you don't). I would not like to discuss the pros and cons of the "age-old" practice here but just saying that it is, indeed, true.

[–] kaos4792005 15 years ago

OneSimpleGuy, you poke at very small facts that may or may not be true instead of giving credit to the major points of success in the movie.

-TY

[–] swat412 15 years ago

And to go a little further with what i said before...

Maybe the original like poster has like never like been out of like a big like city in like India...or maybe doesn't like even like live in India?

Sorry just had to do that.

The town I live in Tuy Hoa, Vietnam is 120 km from Nha Trang and about 550 km from HCMC, we 4 expats that live here refer to it as 'Mayberry', it's as far removed from any big city as the dark side of the moon. It's grown a little but, for a city of 150.000 there are still ox-carts, horse-carts, goats running around etc. The only tourists are the ones that get lost and you can't get any real western food, it's about 20-30 years in the past.

Yes, there are still places like that and people who live like that everywhere...even India.

Me? I love it and wouldn't change a thing!

The move to the roof was a little pushed...would we want to watch them hustle around for a 'real' 45 minutes? Nope.
The building wasn't run-down, it was being built.

On Wednesday nights we have our normal scheduled power cut at the ward the school is in. When the power goes off everyone pitches in and we move the classroom out to the courtyard, takes about 15 minutes to move all the desks, a table, the computer and projector, there's enough power for everything but the air-con. When the next class starts they just stay out there...no problem.
Without the air-con we would die in the classroom!!

[–] trustone-2 15 years ago

I wouldn't get too upset about this. Hollywood exaggerates about the US all the time, especially when a movie is set in the south (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc.). See the Michael J. Fox movie, "Doc Hollywood" for example. He plays a doctor stuck in some small southern town, and ends up working there for a while - people want to pay him with pigs and livestock. That's pretty unrealistic. Hollywood uses lots of stereotype exaggerations; it's just meant to be funny, not realistic. When I see things like that I just think, "what *if* that really happened?" It would be funny if it did, although we all know it would be very unlikely.

[–] rainleaf 14 years ago

Some cultural stereotypes are exaggerated - but it's a comedy, so what do you expect?