I saw a movie yesterday.
Among other things:
1. The hero spends a large-ish amount of time dancing around, oblivious to his surroundings
2. The heroine does, as someone else pointed out, little other than scream and fall
3. A clearly high end scientific facility is unsecured and very easy to enter
4. People get amnesia and recover from it just like that.
5. One of the bad guys is a bad guy because he needs money to pay for his daughter’s medical treatment
6. Said daughter gives him a locket with a photograph of her inside it and said locket constantly provides inspiration through adversity
7. There is more than one bad guy
8. Two of the bad guys get together to destroy the hero, through the girl
9. The other bad guy seeks to do the same through the same girl, by forcing her to sacrifice her love for the hero in order to save the hero from him (third bad guy)
10. There’s a climatic action sequence at the end -
a. In the course of which, the hero gets beaten so badly people are ready to start mourning him
b. A couple of frames later however he’s back to normal
c. All because his friend, once bad guy no. 3 has opted for the redemption path and decided to help him
d. Bad guy no. 3, who is also a potential cog in the wheel for hero’s romance, and also as mentioned above in need of redemption for past misdemeanor, conveniently does get injured fatally in the course of the fight.
11. At the end of the fight, bad guy with locket and hero have profound conversations way up top of a building on crime, reasons for crime and forgiveness while hero’s best friend is dying way down below
12. Said best friend considerately hangs on till hero can finally make it down to him, allows for conversation and then dies after declaring hero best buddy again.
13. The climatic action sequence towards the end is interspersed with moments of comic interlude that involve a precocious child.
14. Immense amount of property damage takes place in the form of broken windows, walls and vehicles.

Standard Bollywood fic?

Nah.

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I took a different route home today. Instead of jostling for space with trucks, buses and other assorted vehicles on the rain-damaged highway, we took smaller roads that run parallel, and found ourselves wandering through puddles large enough to create illusions of Venice in the dark. Oh well – of Alleppy then.

It’s been raining.

And this is when I remember Alexander Frater’s Chasing the Monsoon, which is all about the south west monsoon.

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