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Sunday, November 14, 2010

On cheap health insurance

The first Bollywood movie I watched all the way through was not the best, but good enough to hook me into wanting to watch more. I can't remember the title, which is in Hindi anyway, but it's a tribute to the India Air Force pilots, and it's raw unashamed patriotism, which was good to watch, since I grew up on movies about World War 2 celebrating unashamed patriotism, and that went out of fashion during Vietnam era in the United States. There're two great scenes - one in a bar having a party to celebrate the marriage of one of the pilots (after playing a trick on the bride), who's a poet and unfortunately is shot down later. At the end, the men are racing from Pakistan to the Indian border, and it's coordinated with music and the women making offerings to Indian gods. Having cheap health insurance is not enough to make up for the dangers these guys face. There's even an old pilot who's been jailed in Pakistan since the war they had about 1970.

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