I have just watched: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkar_(film) It is based on The Godfather, set in Mumbai today. The actor playing Sarkar looks like Al Pacino. pretty good movie with very pretty girls. There weren't many menacing looking guys in it, everybody looked too intelligent with their eyeglasses and cellphones. 2 questions for Sam: 1. Is it plausible for thugs (bodyguards) just walk around town with semi-automatic weapons? 2. The actors occassionally and randomly switched to English from Hindi. Is it the way for the average people? When you talk with your friends, do you mix English in your talk??
I've never even seen a cop with a weapon, except during the riots, so the answer to that would be no. Yup, usually we speak either English interspersed with Hindi or Hindi interspersed with English. However, Sarkar, with the father son duo of Amitabh-Abhishek Bachchan is a masala film [i.e. bears little resemblance to reality]. For a look at how these dons really operate, see Nayagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayagan
Do you also speak Marathi? The internet seems to be saying Bambaiyaa Hindi is Mubai's main language but a minority of web sites say Marathi is the main language. Last time I was at Sahar and tried to tell the airport beggar boy to go away in a language other than English the boy scolded me. I thought the boy was scolding me for speaking Marathi instead of Hindi but a week later when I checked the word I thought I remembered using it was Hindi. Maybe the boy was scolding me for speaking Hindi. He said something and the word Marathi in a very condescending tone which I found funny because he was a beggar. Unfortunately for me I don't know which of the few words that I learned are Hindi and which are Marathi and which words I am mispronouncing so badly that they are not words in any language.
Yeah I speak Marathi and Gujarati as well. Marathi is the local lingo, but Bombay has always been more cosmopolitan than Maharashtrian. The advent of the Shiv Sena [with an ideology that puts the Marathi Manus first] has been detrimental to the ethos of Bombay, which has been converted into the vernacular Mumbai. Your beggar was probably one of those Marathi Manus [the Maharashtrian Man] Unfortunately it won't go away soon since the Thackeray spawn is reprouducing itself without mutation http://hotnhitnews.com/linguistic_politics_n_regional_disparity_in_India_09001.htm
What is a masala film, a mixture? Sarkar also has a sequel. The only thing I didn't like was the extended use of tense music, it was like in the series 24. You just can't make every moment tense. They only switched to Indian music at the last 15 minutes. The movie was also based (supposedly) on the family of Balasaheb Thackeray, the leader of the Mumbai-based political party, Shiv Sena.
My girlfriend speaks hindi she got me to watch a movie guirpe or something ... some guy that forgets every 15 minutes and hes on a mission to kill the people that did this to him, etc.... I like those films just not the dancing and singing randomly every 30 minutes
Thats Aamir Khan's Ghajini and its based on the Guy Pearce movie Memento http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan), who is known by his followers as Sarkar, lives in Mumbai. The opening scenes show a rape victim's father (Veerendra Saxena) approaching Sarkar for justice (which the corrupt law and order system has failed to deliver) which Sarkar promptly establishes by having the rapist beaten up by his henchmen. His son, Vishnu (Kay Kay Menon), plays a foul-mouthed producer who is more interested in the film actress Sapna (Nisha Kothari) than his wife Amrita (Rukhsar).
