{"id":338,"date":"2007-08-07T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/338"},"modified":"2011-09-24T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:03:23","slug":"partner-2007-david-dwahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/338","title":{"rendered":"Partner (2007, David Dwahan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first Bollywood movie.  Idiotically simplistic script, a few nicely played musical numbers (annoying music though), and the most horrible constantly-gliding music-video camerawork.  Are they all like this?  The slickest, emptiest foreign film I&#8217;ve seen since <em>Godzilla: Final Wars<\/em>, as well as the loudest since <em>Tetsuo The Iron Man<\/em> adds up to an unpleasant viewing experience.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this was a scene-for-scene remake of <em>Hitch<\/em> with a bellybutton-pierced Indian dude in the Will Smith &#8220;love doctor&#8221; role.  42-yr-old Salman Khan has starred in almost 50 movies in the last 10 years, making him much more prolific than slacker Will Smith, but I&#8217;ll take Smith over the mugging Khan any day.  Actually there&#8217;s no shortage of mugging in the movie so Khan&#8217;s antics hardly stand out except when he&#8217;s playing an 80&#8217;s gangster and lip-synching to &#8220;Pump Up The Jam&#8221;.  There&#8217;s no way to look cool wearing a fur-lined coat and mouthing the word &#8220;pump! pump! pump!&#8221; in close-up, but he sure tries.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly prolific Govinda is the dumpy friend, the screechy annoying &#8220;comic&#8221; role.  You wouldn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d be such a good dancer from looking at him.  Love interests Lara Dutta and Katrina Kaif have been less prolific only because they&#8217;re younger than I am.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women has a kid, which is apparently the only detail not stolen from <em>Hitch<\/em>.  There&#8217;s also a gay wedding planner (only character I liked) and an ineffectual gangster.  I guess the movie fits the romantic comedy mold, though it didn&#8217;t seem too romantic.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I only saw the boom mic once.  Even Katy didn&#8217;t like the movie (much).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE Aug 25: Yaaay, Salman Khan is going to prison today for hunting endangered gazelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Bollywood movie. Idiotically simplistic script, a few nicely played musical numbers (annoying music though), and the most horrible constantly-gliding music-video camerawork. Are they all like this? The slickest, emptiest foreign film I&#8217;ve seen since Godzilla: Final Wars, as well as the loudest since Tetsuo The Iron Man adds up to an unpleasant viewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[169,113,80,1358],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-awful","tag-india","tag-musical","tag-salman-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}