I may be in the minority, but I thought it was stupid fun...
Joker (Shrish Kunder, 2012)
I'm afraid to ask my Indian friends what they think of Joker; every Hindi critic I've read on the subject called the film awful, many of them including it in their five worst movies of the year. My going hypothesis on why I enjoyed this movie as much as I did (aside from "I Want Just You", which at least one Bollyspice critic was compelled to say was the only good thing about the movie): Indian viewers have not yet been desensitized to utter crap by Hollywood. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that the average movie viewer in Bangalore wasn't subjected to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Island, About a Boy, the last four or five Hellraiser sequels...
Plot: In 1947, when Pakistan was separating from India, the surveyors left out the village of Paglapur, which spent sixty-five years lying just outside the boundaries of three separate states. Now Agastya (OMG!'s Akshay Kumar), the only resident of Palagpur to ever leave the...
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