As we all know, India's commercial films are more routine, either hanging, singing and dancing, or heroism and male and female love. In short, change is inseparable.
But there are exceptions to everything.
Today, Xiaobian is going to introduce you to an "alternative" Indian film with the theme of selling cuteness - "Teddy".
The film is produced in southern India (Tamil).
The male protagonist Shiva is a rare genius in the world, he has a strong memory, extraordinary learning ability, and can understand any esoteric knowledge in a very short period of time.
It took him three months to reach the level of study of Greek literature;
After two months, I learned the eighth grade of piano;
In one month, I studied entomology to graduate level.
Anyway, there is no Khiva that can't learn.
Once, Shiva took a bus to work, heard the old gentleman next to him call, cried to people that the investment lost a lot of money, and immediately used his quick financial knowledge to recommend a stock that could make a lot of money to the old man, helping him get out of the financial difficulties. But Shiva himself did not use this talent to make a fortune.
It can be seen that he is a kind and high-style person.
One day, Shiva took the bus again, and when he encountered several hooligans harassing female passengers on the road, he taught them a lesson. For him, this was originally a common act of courage, but he did not expect to "provoke" a toy teddy bear.
Wherever he went, the furry little fellow followed him, and finally simply moved into Khiva's house.
What the hell is this?
It turned out that this toy teddy bear was possessed by the soul of a girl named Sly and became a living creature that could walk, move and speak.
Sly was injured accidentally while helping out with a traffic dispute. Subsequently, she went to a nearby hospital for treatment, but she did not want to be drugged and kidnapped by the gangsters. By chance, Sly's soul resides on the toy teddy bear in the ward, while her own body is transferred by the villain and disappears.
After witnessing Shiva's fight against the rogues on the bus, Sly decided that he was the hero who could help her and followed him all the way.
Hearing all this, Khiva did not hesitate to decide to help.
In the process of rescuing Sly's body, they accidentally uncover a terrible criminal activity, and in the process of fighting with the bad guys, Shiva and Sly's hearts slowly approach and love each other.
As the title of the film, Teddy, shows, the main axis of the story is largely anchored to Teddy the Teddy the Teddy. Therefore, the heroine's actor, Sayesha Segal, although beautiful as a flower, has almost no chance to show her personal charm.
The whole film is mainly to show the cuteness of teddy bears, in other words, to sell cuteness!
Look at this small appearance when walking;
Look at the panicked and frightened little expression when she was "pitted" by the male protagonist;
There is also this small action of stretching the waist, is it cute ah!
The funniest thing is that, in accordance with the tradition of Indian cinema, the film also made a song MV for teddy bears: Teddy bear, teddy bear, reach high! The tune is cheerful and the lyrics are catchy!
Of course, the teddy bear is not a vegetarian either, and it has been working with Shiva to fight the villains. During this period, Shiva was once in danger, or relied on the wit and bravery of the teddy bear to get out of trouble!
To tell the truth, this could have been a very good big heroine.
But unfortunately, the film in the creation, or can not get rid of the old thinking of Indian films, for the portrayal of Shiva, not only too much ink, and did not make any adjustments, is exactly the previous Indian Mary Sue set - the male protagonist is a hero, and everything will!
The male protagonist was not only given the Hindu name Shiva Shiva, but was also endowed with incredible learning abilities. Most crucially, this talent did not play a big role, and most of the time, Shiva relied on fist and foot kung fu to break through.
It seems that Indians think that heroes will fight by default, and as for other skills, they can just order them, and it doesn't matter if they are useless. For example, in "Divine Courage Peta", the hero played by Raj nikante not only cooks rice, but also uses various instruments, but all of them are not used.
Such a setting will seriously drag down the narrative, coupled with the fact that the teddy bear sells cuteness occupies a large number of scenes, resulting in the whole story being very dry, failing to shoot the due dramatic tension, even the basic elements of the action scene, the action design is also very mediocre, there is no sourness of the hanging film.
From the perspective of Indian film fans, "Teddy" can only be said to be new, but the quality is insufficient, a bit of a two-headed taste: feminist temperament is not enough, heroism is not cool.
At present, there is no score on Douban, and a passing score of 6.1 has been obtained on IMDb.
Some fans believe that the movie is generally good, the music, songs are very good, and the setting is also very interesting, that is, the second half is a bit collapsed.
Personally, I think that for the innovative part of the film, "Teddy" is still worth watching, especially Indian film fans, for the male number one Alia, it should also be watched!