November 23, 2008

Yuvvraaj - at least it didn´t have a shower scene with Anil













I am utterly confused. It´s a fact. Yuvraaj is a bad movie. Think creepy 90ies bad. But somehow it works. And I don´t have the faintest idea why it does.

The one and only reason for me to make myself brace the rain and watch Yuvraaj yesterday was that I wanted to see how Subash Ghai framed those parts of the story that played in Austria and Czechia (For those interested, except for one tiny piece which might really have been Czechia they shot most scenes in the Tyrol and Salzburg). Cinetirol can be happy. They got a beautifully shot tourism adfilm.
As for the rest of it. Yuvraaj is old school. In a bad sense. Everything people (outside and inside India) make fun about in Bollywood Films is there. Hell, Ghai even used the freaking "thunder" to accent the gravity of what´s happening on screen.

So it took a while to get into it. Mithun helped a bit. As did Zayed who finally looked good again in a film. But a film starting with Katrina stangling her poor chello was not easy to digest. Salman loosing his shirt exactly 15 min into the film did´t help either. The Extras were really really really bad (Bollywood, seriously, you need to get yourself some better white Extras, or at least make them stop looking straight into the camera or at the AD because they have no idea what to do and what not) The costumes will feed Bollywoodfugly for months. Don´t forget Filmi physics like hurricane-like winds in rooms but not even one moving hair when driving an open convertible at 60mph.












As for the story. Been there. Done that. About 1.23.042 times. Three brothers. Not on speaking term. A reluctant father-in-law to be. An unjust will. Evil greedy uncles, aunties and cousins. And POISON. There has been poison! I think that was the moment when I made my peace with Yuvraaj.

So it is an old school film. With an old school story. And old school sloppy filmmaking.
And in the end I came out and had to confess to myself that I had actually had a good time. One part of the Bollywoodfan in me who acutally got hooked on Indian cinema because of films like that, had a fun retro-flashback. Even while the other part cringed and hated Ghai because he ruined my believe that Bollywood was finally over making films that way.

PS: As for the locations. The ones I can name are Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Kristallwelten in Wattens, Festung Kufstein and quite a few other locations in and around Innsbruck.

9 comments:

a ppcc representative said...

I am in complete, 100% agreement. I'm embarrassed by it, but I blame it on the music and Anil's performance (and doesn't he wax now anyway? heee...). I'm also embarrassed to admit that, after seeing Dostana and Yuvvraaj in the same week, it's Yuvvraaj that I keep seeking out...

Oooh dear.

Anyway, found your blog through Rum's!

http://p-pcc.blogspot.com/

babasko said...

See thats the confusion I am talking about. It is not a movie one I would allow myself to like and still somehow I do. Oh dear!

btw. PPCC, I am a big fan of your work :D

Beth Loves Bollywood said...
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Babsy Artner said...

I can add another AUSTRIAN location as I've been there. The airport at Innsbruck. ;)

bajateraho said...

bollywood
subhash ghai ki movie but not good as i was expected

Shazz said...

A wonderful movie from Katrina Kaif

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