I’m one part behind in the anniversary roundtable, but…
It’s a cause for celebration when a B movie delivers on its concepts as spectacularly as Wahan Ke Log does. Especially given Wahan Ke Log is an Indian B movie and must shoehorn in its disparate genre element alongside all of the requisite singing, dancing and romancing. For this, all it asks in return is that you suspend — or completely abandon — your disbelief and fill in the inevitable gaps left by budgetary shortfall with your imagination. Like the best Indian popular films, it exhibits an expansive generosity in its sincere desire to entertain. At the time of Wahan Ke Log’s release, science fiction was an unexplored genre in mainstream Indian cinema and was, to the extent that it was seen at all, solely the purview of the country’s B movie industry.
Keith Allison is the chief Bacchanologist at Teleport City.
#1 by Alaric on August 29, 2019 - 7:22 am
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Damn it. I don’t have time to read this review right now, but I really want to.
#2 by Alaric on August 29, 2019 - 1:09 pm
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Definitely worth the wait. My favorite line: “We are introduced to Rakesh as he spectates a nightclub number so rich in camp that it’s almost as if someone anticipated that this film would someday be watched ironically by hipsters.”
#3 by RogerBW on September 5, 2019 - 7:33 am
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All right, the trope of the villain whose murder attempts lead the hero to him may be overused… but at least in this film it appears to work the first time, when Vinod gets his.