On skin care product reviews

Another Indian movie not typical Bollywood I saw months ago was about terrorism, not skin care product reviews. We see an older man set up a computer and communications devices up on the roof of a tall building, and from there he calls in bombs threats and demands and talks to one Mumbai TV announcer. And we see a police officer race to find the man before anybody is killed. The man demands the release of four terrorists from jail, and directs them to be placed in a certain remote place. The men were all convicted in conjunction with terrorists acts, and they're certain they're about to be released to terrorist friends. However, they're then blown up. It turns out it's all an elaborate plot not just to kill those terrorist, but to dramatize that ordinary people are fed up with the bomb setters. The old man did not set any bombs himself, just used the threat to move the police. In the end, the police officer lets him escape.

On fastest fat burner

There's another Bollywood movie I saw recently that isn't typical, but interesting though very sad. A young English woman discovers her grandfather's diary - he was a police officer in India in charge of jail where Indian fighters to stop colonialization were housed and eventually executed. She wants to make a movie about this story -- she's fascinated by the revolutionaries -- and goes to India and finds a friend to help her. She's part of a group of friends who get drafted against their wills, because they are modern and don't relate to the revolutionaries willing to give their lives. They make fun of the whole idea, because India is now so poor and corrupt. Yet in the end the roles they play in the movie start to affect their lives, and they go up against the government's corruption. They go from being modern guys looking for the fastest fat burner and drinking and partying and not caring about anything except themselves and their friends, to battling like the revolutionaries of old.

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.