not a shameful classic. because i have no shame.

So, I was sitting on the bike at the gym this morning, watching Raja Babu, because I have a very long overdue post and podcast episode lined up featuring it, and needed to refresh my thoughts.  And also?  Because we are in the middle of a heatwave here and I can only use the recumbent bike because of a ripping dose of plantar fascitis, and did I mention it's HOT, and so I went to the gym EARLY and was mildly brain dead as well, so Raja Babu seemed like a good way to pass some time.

And I hit this point in the film and almost fell off the bike laughing, prompting a nice older woman to come over and tell me it was nice to hear laughter at that time of the morning, and I was glad she didn't ask what I was laughing at, because it just would have been too hard to explain:

Actually, in the dialogue, Govinda references Dharmendra, and the previous scene does, in fact, have one of the characters look at him and ask, "Where did this Dharmendra come from?"  This is clearly a reference to the film Dharam Veer featuring Dharmendra and Jeetendra, and Govinda spends the next few scenes chanelling Dharam-ji, and it was just so hysterically funny that I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"But!"  I hear you asking:

 
 

Patience, grasshoppers.  More when I have a little more time to finish writing up and recording.

In the meantime, hop on over to Roti Kapada Aur Rum, for some truly Shameful Classics. 

Comments

[Ness]

I stopped watching Raja Babu because of the eternal movie wrecker Shakti Kapoor. But obviously, I'm going to have to suck it up and give it another chance. Because OMG TOO AWESOME FOR WORDS.

[katherine]

After about five viewings of this film, I managed to be able to watch it and tune Shakti out.

It's really sad, because this is a virtual scene by scene remake of a southie film, and where Dhawan changes it? Is to add more of the servant character, IE, MORE Shakti, which is really the worst decision he could have made, because, once again -- and especially in the second half -- we have some very good Govinda moments (not the least of which is his Dharmendra imitation), that are ruined by TOO MUCH SHAKTI.

Sigh.

[Ness]

Slowly I am becoming immune to the movie wreckers. I will SUCK IT UP. That screenshot, OMG it has sold me. AWESOMENESS. Because Dharam-Veer is too amazing anyway, GOVINDA taking it on, BE STILL MY BEATING DIL :)

[Rum]

Oooh I haven't watched this one in agggesss! Agree with Ness, Shakti Kapoor just brings out the creep factor, but sometimes Shakti is better than having countless Johnny Levers and Kader Khans next to Govinda!

[Ness]

I would take Johnny Lever ANY DAY.

[katherine]

I would take Johny Lever AND Kader Khan (and he's in this film already, anyway) over Shakti. Especialy comic Shakti.