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My new favorite movie EVER.
In the midst of catching up with Ekta Kapoor's deliciously ridiculous Muppet-Babies-meets-300 new television serial of the Mahabharata, I recently paused to watch this delightful hour-and-a-half of mindblowing insanity. Yes, it's a musical children's cartoon about Ghatotkacha. Yes, it's Shemaroo, which means ridiculously cute. And yes, like I said. Mindblowing insanity, nonstop, from start to finish.
I saw the film in Hindi, and the voice acting was pretty fantastic. Dunno about the other languages that the film is available in, though. Youtube has clips from the film in seven different languages, but I'm kind of afraid to listen to the English version. I'm telling you, I once listened to five minutes of the English language track from Shemaroo's Ganesh animated film, and it scarred me for life.
I also watched the film sans subtitles, a feat which strained my piss-poor language skills to their limit. I freely admit that there were quite a few lines that I didn't understand at all, albeit the translations that I made up in my head worked just as well. For example, I don't know what Duryodhana actually said to Shakuni at the end of the film's opening scene, but I imagine it was something along the lines of "No, Uncle Shakuni, I can't play dice with you right now, the magic voice from the clouds is telling me to burn things again."
Anyway, the first half of the film tells the story of Ghatotkacha's childhood exploits. He also meets chibi!Abhimanyu and chibi!Vatsala, and they basically run around together getting into incredibly cute and batshit insane adventures.
The second half of the film is the story of the Abhimanyu/Vatsala/Lakshman/Ghatotkacha love... quadrangle... thingy. Anyway, like all good stories that involve "Yadavas" and "weddings" and "the lolarious ruining thereof," it's basically a big montage of goopy love songs, ridiculous circumlocutious conspiracies, secret forbidden romances, crossdressing, and the whole things basically ends with somebody getting his ass set on fire. But, because this is a Shemaroo film - and therefore completely insane - all of the above is simply not insane enough for our intrepid screenwriters. So in this film version we have a plethora of creative additions to the story, including but not limited to flute-humping, roller coasters, paintings trying to eat people, and Shakuni donning magical shoes and doing the "Staying Alive" dance. No, seriously.
Mercifully, the film ends with Abhimanyu and Vatsala's real wedding. That's a good thing, because the next part of the story is basically "and then both Abhimanyu and Ghatotkacha died horrible, horrible deaths at Kurukshetra." Which clearly would have been too depressing of an ending for a kiddie film.
I cannot even put into words how beautifully batshit this movie is. It is literally the craziest childrens' film I have ever seen. Yes, even crazier than Anpan-Man. If I had to pick my top ten favorite insane things about this film, however, my list would look like this:
10. Ghatotkacha French-kissing a shark.
9. The little detail that Krishna apparently sleeps with his flute.
8. The scene where Ghatotkacha humps said flute.
7. The look that Balaram gives Krishna when Ghatotkacha reveals himself at the wedding. The "YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS DIDN'T YOU?!" look.
6. The "LOL, yeah" look that Krishna gives him back. (What, elaborate plots to ruin doomed weddings? That's a family tradition!)
5. The cousincest love montage musical number.
4. Abhimanyu's INEXPLICABLE PEGASUS.
3. The part where Krishna builds a roller coaster.
2. Ghatotkacha disguised as Vatsala seducing Lakshman with his Dr. Girlfriend voice.
But none of the above even holds a candle to...
1. Duryodhana and Shakuni's DISCO DANCE-OFF!!!!!
Yes, that really happened.
And a part that I can't believe they left out...
I can't believe that in the midst of all of this insanity, they actually left out the part where Ghatotkacha magically strips the entire Kaurava wedding party butt-naked. Oh come on, people. You can show Ghatotkacha making out with a shark, but you can't show a little Duryodhana beefcake? Le sigh.
I saw the film in Hindi, and the voice acting was pretty fantastic. Dunno about the other languages that the film is available in, though. Youtube has clips from the film in seven different languages, but I'm kind of afraid to listen to the English version. I'm telling you, I once listened to five minutes of the English language track from Shemaroo's Ganesh animated film, and it scarred me for life.
I also watched the film sans subtitles, a feat which strained my piss-poor language skills to their limit. I freely admit that there were quite a few lines that I didn't understand at all, albeit the translations that I made up in my head worked just as well. For example, I don't know what Duryodhana actually said to Shakuni at the end of the film's opening scene, but I imagine it was something along the lines of "No, Uncle Shakuni, I can't play dice with you right now, the magic voice from the clouds is telling me to burn things again."
Anyway, the first half of the film tells the story of Ghatotkacha's childhood exploits. He also meets chibi!Abhimanyu and chibi!Vatsala, and they basically run around together getting into incredibly cute and batshit insane adventures.
The second half of the film is the story of the Abhimanyu/Vatsala/Lakshman/Ghatotkacha love... quadrangle... thingy. Anyway, like all good stories that involve "Yadavas" and "weddings" and "the lolarious ruining thereof," it's basically a big montage of goopy love songs, ridiculous circumlocutious conspiracies, secret forbidden romances, crossdressing, and the whole things basically ends with somebody getting his ass set on fire. But, because this is a Shemaroo film - and therefore completely insane - all of the above is simply not insane enough for our intrepid screenwriters. So in this film version we have a plethora of creative additions to the story, including but not limited to flute-humping, roller coasters, paintings trying to eat people, and Shakuni donning magical shoes and doing the "Staying Alive" dance. No, seriously.
Mercifully, the film ends with Abhimanyu and Vatsala's real wedding. That's a good thing, because the next part of the story is basically "and then both Abhimanyu and Ghatotkacha died horrible, horrible deaths at Kurukshetra." Which clearly would have been too depressing of an ending for a kiddie film.
I cannot even put into words how beautifully batshit this movie is. It is literally the craziest childrens' film I have ever seen. Yes, even crazier than Anpan-Man. If I had to pick my top ten favorite insane things about this film, however, my list would look like this:
10. Ghatotkacha French-kissing a shark.
9. The little detail that Krishna apparently sleeps with his flute.
8. The scene where Ghatotkacha humps said flute.
7. The look that Balaram gives Krishna when Ghatotkacha reveals himself at the wedding. The "YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS DIDN'T YOU?!" look.
6. The "LOL, yeah" look that Krishna gives him back. (What, elaborate plots to ruin doomed weddings? That's a family tradition!)
5. The cousincest love montage musical number.
4. Abhimanyu's INEXPLICABLE PEGASUS.
3. The part where Krishna builds a roller coaster.
2. Ghatotkacha disguised as Vatsala seducing Lakshman with his Dr. Girlfriend voice.
But none of the above even holds a candle to...
Yes, that really happened.
And a part that I can't believe they left out...
I can't believe that in the midst of all of this insanity, they actually left out the part where Ghatotkacha magically strips the entire Kaurava wedding party butt-naked. Oh come on, people. You can show Ghatotkacha making out with a shark, but you can't show a little Duryodhana beefcake? Le sigh.
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Oh man, we should all get together and write a parody version of the Mahabharata, Bored-of-the-Rings style. Can you imagine the sheer awesomeness of that?
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Just imagine...
Draupadi
Day 5 of Exile:
Still stuck in the forest with idiot husbands.
Am planning to guilt-trip them so badly that Yudhisthira will never look at another pair of dice again. Wonder whether it will work.
Day 6:
Husband # 2 keeps asking if I want flowers.
Keep telling him that I want Dushasana's blood to bathe my hair in. Heard from Hidimbaa that blood is an excellent conditioner.
Hubby keeps bringing me flowers.
*sigh* This is going to be one long exile.
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Day 1:
Still not dead.
Day 10:
Still not dead.
Day 4,987:
Still not dead.
Day 6,325:
Stuck on a bed of arrows. Still not dead. Goddammit!
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Film-makers in my head again!!!
Sounds...crazy.
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The art instantly made me think "Indian Pixar". :) Now I have to watch it. :)
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XDDDD
Ahaha..you have no idea how true that is..
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(P.S did i get overly bitter here? yeah, i'm on duryodhan/karna's side! :))