When I first started blogging, being an American Bollywood fan was a bit more complicated than it is now. Netflix had a decent selection of Bollywood DVDs available, but for the most part when you wanted new stuff you would find an online retailer, browse their catalog for something that looked interesting, and then . . . take your chances. Sometimes the movie was good, sometimes it was terrible. Sometimes the DVD had no subtitles. Sometimes it turned out to be obviously and badly pirated. It turned the movie watching experience into an adventure.
Things are different now. There's an ocean of Indian cinema available at the literal push of a button, and rather than waiting weeks to finds out if a movie is any good, I can watch it right now. It's great. It's genuinely better than the old way of doing things. But I do miss the sixty nine cent DVDs you'd pick up to round out an order; they had devotionals, mythologicals, duplicate movies, Z-movies, and the embarrassing early output of major stars. These are movies that aren't easily available on streaming platforms, and while some of the DVDs are still out there, they cost a lot more than sixty nine cents, and they're very hard to find.
All of which is a roundabout way of explaining why I am so happy to have maybe tracked down an affordable copy of Tum Mere Ho, the famously bad snake movie starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla. Will the picture quality be any good? Will the DVD have subtitles? How bad can it possibly be? I can't wait to find out.
Meanwhile, no new review this week. I watched Awara Paagal Deewana, only to discover that I've already reviewed it. You can read the old review here; I pretty much agree with Me From the Past.
No comments:
Post a Comment