Shakti: The Power
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Krishna VamsiForgatókönyvíró:
Krishna VamsiOperatőr:
Sethu SriramZeneszerző:
Ismail DarbarSzereplők:
Karisma Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Sanjay Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Deepti Naval, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vijay Raaz, Tiku Talsania, Divya Dutta, Prakash Raj (több)Tartalmak(1)
Nandini is brought up by his uncles in Los Angeles. She falls in love with Shekhar, a self made man who's been in US for six years. Nandini and Shekhar marry and soon have a kid. Everything is perfect and happy till three years of their marriage, when one day Shekhar hears about carnage in a village in Northern India. He gets very agitated and reveals to Nandini that his mother may have been hurt and wants to visit her for a few days. Nandini is very surprised that he has a family, but insists on accompanying him to his village.
There she discovers that his family, headed by his charismatic, powerful and extremely violent father Narsimha has been at war with another family for several generations. She is shocked and completely unnerved by this violent way of life here. She is very apprehensive of the influences that may occur on her three year old son to whom her father-in-law is very attached. Out of this concern, she gets into a couple of very intense confrontations with her father-in-law leading to a very intense situation within the family.
Unfortunately, her father-in-law is tricked by his politician associate into sending Shekhar to meet the collector, and brutally murdered by the enemy family. Nandini is heart-broken and wants to leave for Canada immediately. But, her father-in-law now insists on keeping her son with him.
She fights this decision, but to no avail, as he is strong and extremely stubborn. So, she tries to escapes on her own. After two failures, she is locked up in an outhouse. What will happen to her? Will she ever be able to go to Canada?
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Recenziók (1)
Shakti: The Power is quite intense. If this had been one of the first Indian films I’d watched, I would be traumatized to this day. But unfortunately, I've seen crazy things like Fair, so I suspect it could be worse. Or rather... Karisma Kapoor plays a young wife and mother who lives in Canada with her husband, who she thinks no longer has a family. So far, so good. There’s nothing crazy about that. But then it turns out that the husband isn't an orphan after all, so his whole family is coming for a visit. So far still good. There are some cultural differences, a few shocks, and some confusion as to what is actually happening and why everyone is doing what they are doing. But then I stopped understanding it altogether. Karisma is caught up in the maelstrom of a kind of war, living on a pile amongst the dung and homemade grenades. Her father-in-law is a local mob boss and, besides being crazy, runs a gang spread over 40 villages. But he has a rival who killed his son. So he needs a successor, and that's meant to be Karisma's husband. But he soon dies and his duties are transferred to his young son... It may not sound that scary, but you have to see it to understand. Karisma is still squinting those huge eyes of hers, and it all breaks down into a disgusting action skirmish. Karisma tries to escape several times, hysteria alternates with violence, incomprehension alternates with an attempt at spontaneous combustion, the father-in-law tries to beat Karisma to death... and then we get a comedy (!) interlude with Shah Rukh Khan. And instead of me being happy that he's dreaming about Aishwarya Rai (who plays herself), I just can't stop counting every single WTF moment, one after another. Sure, Shah Rukh Khan runs around with a bullet in his back for half a day... but then there’s the ending (!!!). You have to see it for yourself. The Festival of the Hardened Spectator awaits.
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