PARK
Watchable. It's all about the carnal. A group of teens whose activities are all physical. Their way of expressing joy or coping with a tragedy is invariably physical. The male and female leads are both beautifully muscled. While the events are chronological, they're just a sequence of scenes with no clear beginning or ending.
SIMRAN
Watchable. Not your average Bollywood, at least in the Polish version shortened by half from nearly 4 to about 2 hours (why? why?): little music, no dancing and based on a true story. All that makes for a more realistic view of the community. In a patriarchal Indian family the offspring can't just talk to parents, they must obey. I wouldn't use "my father's going to kill me" even as a figure of speech. The protagonist is genuinely scared of her father. The story is quite American (it's set in the Indian diaspora in the US) or rather... about an Asian girl who gullibly believed in the American dream. The picture of contemporary world, shown with a pinch of salt, is bizarre yet plausible: online tutorials teach you how to rob a bank or how to kill someone and not get caught, an object bulging under a jacket can scare bank employees into handing over the money, with them firmly believing they had been attacked by Al-Qaeda. Kangana Ranaut is superb in her capability to enact a number of moods and behaviours of the ever changing girl in one movie, truly Bollywood-style.
Seen in the comfort of Cinema City, at least most of their cinemas have kept the comfy seats. Still, I'm upset Bollywood gets cut short in Poland! Absolutely outrageous!
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