Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Bollywood Time

This past saturday night I was invited by some of the girls to come to the dining hall and join them in watching a movie. I have known that almost every weekend they watch something. Popular choices are bollywood films, nollywood films(from nigeria), and american TV shows like prison break and one tree hill. Most of the times when I have been invited to come it has been during the afternoon when I am not at school, but this past saturday night I was home and excited to go.
The girls had first told me that it would be a Nigerian movie in English, but obviously when I arrived I knew this was not true. There were about 50+ girls crowded together in one corner of the big hall because that is where the TV is. And it should be noted that the size of this TV is 'small' in comparision to what most U.S. families have. I have no idea what the title of the movie was, but man was it good. In typical bollywood fashion there were elaborate dance numbers that just seemed to burst out of nowhere during the film. Since the film was subtitled in English I was paying close attention because I had to read to konw what was going on. This little fact did at first puzzle me, as in how many of the girls could really follow along with the subtitles? I guess I will never know.
Around the first song/dance number I realized that the girls had seen this movie before. The reason I could figure that out is because they all sung along..haha.. it was actually pretty cute.
Now the movie itself. I won't get into too much detail, lets just say a daughter has to save her family from financial disaster be becoming a high-end escort in Bombay, but her family does not know about it(the mother suspects). Her younger sister comes to Bombay and makes a go at in the buisness world where she meets her husband to be..(her education had been financed by her sister's profession).. Of course the escort sister falls in love and feels it cant work because she would have to tell the truth. After a heartfelt conversation with her mother she decides to tell the man what she does, and he accepts her anyway(he had already known).. and guess what??.. they get married. The end of the movie is that both sisters are happily married and are singing and dancing..
I'm not sure a movie could get much better than that, just saying. Hopefully next weekend they will watch another Bollywood film, because you know I am hooked now..haha...
PS-if someone could find the title of the movie and let me know, that would be great!thanks.

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