Bollywood Roundup!

Oh my God, what is this? Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap (2011), Puri Jagganath.
Aging Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan dresses like Don Cherry and all the gals fall head over heels for him!  This struck me as mostly just a loving tribute to "Big B" -- but it's completely preposterous!  Bachchan wears about 37 pairs of glasses and is a hitman (or not).  Sonu Sood, playing ACP Malhotra, is quite a nice looking fellow.  Watching him in his policeman's uniform certainly helped me to forget that nothing in this film made a lick of sense.

Chatur Singh Two Star (2011), Ajay Chandhok.
Abominable ripoff of the Inspector Clouseau character.  Atrocious crap!  As a fan of at least one of the decent Pink Panther movies, I was somewhat appalled.  (Although the original franchise did enough to embarrass itself)!

Mankatha (2011), Venkat Prabhu.
Slick Tamil heist movie.  A Mumbai gang plans to steal money from illegal cricket bets.  Lots of punched up colours make it all look a little "CSI Miami" visually but the action doesn't flag.  Charismatic actor Ajith Kumar is a cop on suspension, and "Action King" Arjun also appears.  These Tamils know how to kick out the action flix.

Koi...Mil Gaya (2003), Rakesh Roshan.

As a foreigner, this one just struck me like the Indian Forrest Gump.  Hrithik Roshan plays a developmentally-disabled man who wants to follow in his scientist father's footsteps.  Throw in some aliens...!  Didn't do anything for me, because I kept flashing to this:

As a footnote, also saw a couple American films and for the record Martha Marcy Mae Marlene (2011) scared the hell out of me, far more than (delightfully simple) Paranormal Activity (2007) did.  It's a Kickstarter project from hell, and has completely ruined all my pastoral fantasies about escaping city life to raise dairy goats!