One of many advantages to living in the Phoenix area is the different cultural experiences. Being the fifth largest city in the United States, you don’t have to look hard to find something new and unique. One thing I’ve enjoyed is viewing Bollywood films from the subcontinent of India that are always showing in local theaters across the valley of the sun.
I was first introduced to these type of films with the sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire, but fell in love with the genre after viewing the epic movie RRR on Netflix.
Since watching RRR during the Covid lockdown, I try to catch any action Bollywood movie playing in theaters. It’s my preferred style of film from India, as the cinematography, visuals and over the top action and acting is just a Chef’s Kiss for this cinephile. I was interested to see what this latest movie, Maa inti Bangaram, would be all about….
This movie surprised me, being more of a comedy than an action movie, but I was fine with that. Having subtitles, it was a tad hard for me to get all of the humor, but I was able to follow the general plot. Being a typical Bollywood movie, it is almost three hours long, but it has an intermission, something that I wish Hollywood would bring back. The action scenes, although brief, were memorable, and overall I was never bored. It is good for me to expand the types of Bollywood films I see.
