Recently, for personal reasons, I am getting to know our neighbor, India. Inevitably, some Indian films will be specially found to enhance the understanding of India.
In fact, for a long time, Indian movies in my impression were two words. One is open and hanging, and the other is song and dance.
In Indian movies, there is not necessarily a hanging, but song and dance are lacking.
The reason for this is that the people of India are not like our movie-watching habits. In the eyes of Indians, song and dance is a kind of respect and reward for Lord Shiva, so for a movie, only song and dance can make them feel worth the ticket price.
This is the cultural difference that leads to the different types of movies, and when the internal reasons are understood, the sudden appearance of song and dance in the movie is also acceptable.
An Indian movie I watched yesterday was called Evacuate Kuwait.
The plot is slightly similar to our "Wolf Warrior 2", but "Evacuate Kuwait" mainly tells how Indian expatriates evacuated Kuwait during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
The film does not have the strong assistance of the Indian government, but instead ignores the 170,000 Indians in Kuwait. So in such a situation, our male protagonist, Ranjit, with his own strength, shouldered the accusation of evacuating the Indian diaspora.
Ranjit was originally an Indian who did business in Kuwait, and he only saw money in his eyes, only for profit. However, in the process of evacuating overseas Chinese, it played an important role in spontaneously organizing Indian overseas Chinese camps, contacting the Indian side, and mediating with the Iraqi side.
The film was on fire in India in 2016, and of course it is closely related to patriotism.
This is a good movie, as a window into India, you can see it. But the film itself also has some hard wounds, such as the male protagonist's journey from a mercenary businessman to a hero who saves the people is too abrupt. Until the end of the movie, I couldn't understand why the male protagonist in the movie was so transformed.
But in reality, I have my own answer. When the Indian flag was finally raised in Jordan, the Indian people must have felt extremely proud.
Finally, the beauty of our old neighbor India is not vain. The heroine of this film, Nimrat Kaul, is really beautiful.