Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal: Gereja Katolik Masuk Bollywood

[WorldPeace8281]

selain unsur Hindu, Gereja Katolik akhirnya masuk film Bollywood setelah sebelumnya ada My Name Is Khan dgn unsur Islamnya



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If you can overlook the outrageous suggestion that Nana Patekar could be Om Puri's son, then you're in for some clean, healthy, wholesome and engaging fun in this comic drama about a stranger who walks into a Catholic village and changes malfunctional lives with his positivity.

Does the reformation in the Church theme ring a bell? Films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee - 'Anand', 'Bawarchi', 'Buddha Mil Gaya' and 'Khubsoorat' - attempted the same theme of the whimsical but endearing stranger who walks in with an eccentric agenda to change jaded lives.

Priyadarshan's parodic populace is a city of eccentricity. Rural or urban, the characters are whimsical, stubborn, and oddly out of step with the socio-political reality of the world that they seem to inhabit from the fringes without being able to position themselves in the mainstream.

'Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal' (KDM) gives us Priyan's people at their quirkiest. There is a farmer Om Puri who lives here with his wife (Sona Nair), two daughters and a wastrel of a son (played with superb slothfulness by Shreyas Talpade) in whose life comes a dark brooding stranger Nana Patekar who be any of many things - a long-lost brother, an unwanted bother, a ghost from another world, a blast from the past, a foodie who clean-sweeps all the food on the table! Leaving Om Puri's family aghast.

It is interesting to see how Priyadarshan brings into play a small church-based village community's affinity to religion, courtship and domestic politics. Here is a village sustaining itself at the grassroots with spirited hilarity, often self-directed.

Though a little tongue-in-cheek if not altogether blasphemous, I was tickled by the heroine's female bodyguard (Pratima Kazmi)'s one-sided passion for the priest played with Asrani in an ill-fitting cassock. This audacious plot-track was more outrageously comical than newbie Madhurima Bannerjee's endless courtship with the eminently unlikeable wimp (Shreyas).

This isn't the first Priyadarshan film where the pampered heiress is protected from male attention by her slew of bullying brothers. Earlier Kareena Kapoor was similarly guarded from Akshaye Khanna's attention in 'Hulchul'.

Recurrent themes often give Priyadarshan comedies a sinking sense of sameness. A remake of a Malayalam film 'Marykundoro Kunjaado', 'KDM' is one of Priyadarshan's better potboilers in recent times.

He hasn't been able to do away with a regional flavour in the story. The cloistered gossip-mongering Keral village may seem odd to Hindi-speaking audiences. But the film has been shot by R. Ganesh in a beautiful lakeside township. There are lush images of fields and meadows. The climactic chase catches Nana and Shreyas running through a harvest-ready field in the dead of the night. It's an arresting image, framed and shot with care.

Though Neeraj Vora's dialogues have seen better digs, they capture the ethos of eccentric antics well. The actors are all in the mood to have fun.

Tucked away in this rumbustious drama of mistaken identity and godforsaken raillery is a message on trust, belief and honesty. All of this is put forward with zero dependence on vulgarity.

The double meaning is restricted to the ambivalence of the characters. The principal actors specially duly deadpan Nana; blissfully and brazenly self-serving Shreyas; incredibly unselfconscious Om Puri, wickedly ironic Paresh and Neera Vora - a scream as a coffin maker who prays for the dying to be dead - get into the swing of things. They lend a layering to the laughter.

An interesting film, and far superior to the prolific Priyadarshan's other recent comedies like 'De Dana Dan', 'Khatta Meetha' and 'Malamaal Weekly', a prequel to 'KDM'.

http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/reviews/review-kamaal-dhamaal-malamaal

[bruce]

India tidak asing dengan agama Kristen/Katolik, penganut agama Kristen/Katolik di India adalah no 3 terbesar, bahkan diatas Buddhism.

The 2001 census reported that Hinduism, with over 800 million adherents (80.5% of the population), was the largest religion in India; it is followed by Islam (13.4%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.9%), Buddhism (0.8%), Jainism (0.4%), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and the Bahá'í Faith.

Rasul Thomas bahkan berkarya hingga India. Karya St.Thomas sangat membekas, seperti terlihat pada Katedral St. Thomas di Mumbai.



Jadi, tidak ada yang aneh dengan hadirnya unsur agama Kristen di India dalam film, begitupun unsur agama Islam yang adalah no.2 terbesar di India.

Syalom

[Shakespeare]

Bukan sesuatu yang baru. Dahulu, beberapa kali saya sempat melihat unsur2 Gereja dalam beberapa film India/Bollywood.

[Husada]

Wah, kalau begitu, kelihatannya akan mendapat tempat juga kalau ada trit khusus bagi penggemar felem India.

[Shakespeare]

Wah, kalau begitu, kelihatannya akan mendapat tempat juga kalau ada trit khusus bagi penggemar felem India.

Wah, saya bukan penggemar pelem India, cuma kadang2 geli saja lihat orang sedang jatuh cinta lalu tiba2 bisa menari-nari secara kolosal di taman, hehe.... 

[bruce]

Wah, saya bukan penggemar pelem India, cuma kadang2 geli saja lihat orang sedang jatuh cinta lalu tiba2 bisa menari-nari secara kolosal di taman, hehe.... 

Film India selalu bertaburan tarian masal, entah saat sedih, entah saat gembira, entah saat tak ada yang kenal sekalipun.

Hebatnya, trend ini ditiru oleh Hollywood dalam beberapa filmnya, seperti Grease, Saturday Night Fever, bahkan oleh Michael Jackson.

He he he he.

[detik]

aca.. aca.. aca..

[John Paul III]

mere jane... tung jahe-jahe..