Little Lori and Uncle Monkey God
The reference news network reported on March 7 that if crossing the border from one country to another is dangerous, will you still insist? The young Pawan of India would say yes because the monkey god Hanuman told him that those who have good hearts will be healed by him.
The Indian youth Pawan, nicknamed "Uncle Monkey God", comes from the Indian movie "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle" released during the Lantern Festival (March 5, which is also India's "Holi Festival") in 2018. The film achieved a good result of 2.8 million US dollars (about 18 million yuan) on the first day of the mainland, and the attendance rate on the first day exceeded 50%, the audience received rave reviews, and Douban also gave a high score of 8.6 points, following "Wrestling It!" After "Daddy" and "Mysterious Superstar", the first shot of Indian cinema in the Chinese market this year was fired.
In fact, the film was released in India during the "Eid al-Fitr" in 2015, and as early as the beginning of the film's release, it achieved a good reputation, and the Indian domestic box office of $98 million was also one of the highest-grossing Indian films in 2015.
Poster of "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle"
The film tells the story of a young Indian "Monkey God Uncle" who helps Shahida, a pakistani girl who has been separated from her mother, to return home from India.
It's a warm film, with laughter and hazy tears in it, but it's not abrupt either. The film has many highlights, and the reunion of small families and the great peace that crosses boundaries form the main theme of this film.
During World War II, Britain was unable to maintain its control over India, and the contradiction between Islam and Hinduism and Sikhism in India became increasingly strong, which eventually led to the division of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947. The country has been divided, and the family needs to be moved. Subsequently, the large-scale movement of people between the two countries caused great chaos, contradictions and conflicts also occurred from time to time, and even the people of the two countries also appeared more or less antagonistic. These emotions are reflected in the film, and the film seems to try to calm these emotions with a happy ending.
This smooth story, even if it does not explain the specific time background, but through the game of cricket, it is vaguely linked to a lot of historical context. At the beginning of the film, the little girl's mother suddenly feels a pain in the cricket game, and since then there has been an "elf" in the mountain forest. Later, when the little girl watched the India-Pakistan cricket game with Uncle Monkey God and everyone in India, she cheered for Pakistan alone and finally told the mystery of "where is her hometown".
Pakistani cricket fans
There are also many laughs in the film, which also stem from the differences in religion and culture between the two countries. These differences are evident in the film through the concrete representation of the everyday. The vast majority of Pakistan's population is Muslim, worshipping in mosques, believing in Allah Allah and eating halal meat. In contrast, the main population of India believes in Hinduism, prays in Hindu temples, believes in thousands of Hindu gods, and many Indian families (especially high castes) eat only vegetarian food.
Little Lori is hungry for other people's food
The biggest highlight is the combination of this little Lolita and Uncle Monkey God, which is novel and interesting. Whether it is a little girl or a monkey god uncle, they are all kind and lovely people. Little girls have the innocence and bravery of this age. When driving the lamb home, she accidentally rolled over and hung on the cliff tree, and the people held torches to find her, and she did not cry; on the train back from Delhi to her hometown, she secretly lit the soles of the feet of the sleeping fat uncle, and when the train stopped, she jumped off the train to rescue the little lamb that had fallen in the pit; the day after she was separated from her mother, she saw Uncle Monkey God and quietly followed him, not crying or making trouble; when she was in Uncle Monkey God's house, she sneaked to the muslim house next door to eat chicken legs. The acting skills of the young actress Hassalie Mallotela exploded, her expression was innocent, and everyone was cute with this little girl.
The monkey god uncle played by Salman Khan, one of the three "khans" of Bollywood in India, is a straight young man who believes in the monkey god Hanuman, he never tells lies, even if it is five rupees (equivalent to about five cents of yuan), he must insist on returning it to others. When crossing the border, the muzzles of the two soldiers were aimed at him separately, and he admitted that he had come through the tunnel and would never lie at the risk of his life. This upright young man is understood by many people as a "madman" or "brain disease", and he takes the little girl who meets pingshui across mountains and rivers, nationalities, and countries until he finds her home. Such people are few and far between, so they are precious, so the beautiful female teacher will choose him as a good person against her father's wishes.
Uncle Monkey God and girlfriend
Then again, Uncle Monkey God is an unquestionably good man. But he only graduated from high school after taking the exam 11 times, has no fixed job, and has a small goal of "saving money to buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law", if put into the reality of China, he may be rated as "a good-hearted dick". Perhaps, this also involves many differences in Chinese and Indian cultures, the Indians' rendering of the spiritual world is very pure, of course, in the movie may also be to highlight the quality of Uncle Monkey God.
In addition to the characters with distinct personalities, the famous song and dance scenes in Indian movies are also inevitable in this film. At the beginning of the film, the little girl missed the train back to Pakistan, people's mood was just when they were pulling, the painting style suddenly turned to the scene of singing and dancing to celebrate the monkey god, and the male protagonist, the monkey god uncle, appeared as a heroic singer, leading the crowd to take selfies and revelry.
At the end of the film, in the sound of music, the people of Pakistan pour in from the mountains they have crossed, built human walls, torn down iron cables, and helped Uncle Monkey God return to India.
What is even more rare and valuable is that the film starts from the perspective of small people, and epitomizes the great righteousness of the nation and the country in the story of small people, without emotional kidnapping but everywhere to earn people's hearts. In the face of political contradictions between the two countries, ordinary people are very innocent and small. Pakistan's leadership followed the rules, believing that Uncle Monkey was a spy sent by India, so they pursued it all the way. But whether it is the reporter who accompanies and helps to "speak up" along the way, the conductor on the bus who helps find a place, or the policeman who finally disobeys the order of his superiors to help escape from prison, he is touched from the heart and offers sincere help.
The movie story is very beautiful, but in real life, is it really so easy to cross the India-Pakistan border? By consulting the website of the Indian government, we learned that there are currently three ways for Indian citizens to travel to Pakistan, one is to go to Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad by air; the other is to go to Karachi by sea and land; and the third is to go overland via the Waghe Highway. Either way requires going through strict security checks, passports and visas are a must. Individuals crossing the border illegally is a very serious matter, and the consequences are beyond the scope of personal suffering. From this point of view, the film seems too "idealistic" and forcibly hits an Amway injection of "may India and Pakistan peace". (Text/Dai Joy)