Reviews & Ratings for
किंग अंकल (1993)

King Uncle is Annie -- Bollywood old style. This is another old obscure SRK movie that ErosNow is featuring for Diwali this week. I had no idea what the movie was about going in. It is extremely ironic that I watched this film over two nights this week, as my son has the role of the butler in his middle school production of Annie. Frankly, I think the kids at his school did a better job.

But because this is Bollywood, Daddy Warbucks, I mean King Uncle, (Jackie Schroff) has to have a bigger family to amp up the melodrama. SRK plays his younger brother, Anil, and he also has a dishrag of a sister. The first 1/2 hour or 45 minutes establish what an asshole Ashok (King Uncle/Schroff) is. He kicks his younger brother out of the house for wanting to marry a poor girl, and then marries his sister off to an even bigger asshole who beats her all the time.

Then Ashok travels to the mountains where he is laughed at by some little urchin children. Yes, there's a Mrs. Hannigan, too, drinking away at the orphanage. One little urchin escapes the orphanage and hides in his car. The light bulb goes off in my head, it's Annie! I mean, Mannu, who had been dressed in boy clothes.

The rest of it follows Annie mostly, with King Uncle becoming smitten with Mannu and wanting to adopt her yada yada. We know Mannu has softened up her beloved King Uncle because he starts wearing JEANS. Anil (SRK) has fallen in with a stolen car chop shop, unknowingly. King Uncle rescues him and his abused sister. Much fist flying and crazy stunt fights with Anil and Ashok. Rooster (I mean the chop shop owner) conspires with Mrs. Hannigan to get Annie (I mean Mannu).

The difference is that I don't remember Annie's face getting literally sliced up by Rooster. There is a CRAZY ending to King Uncle in an amusement park, where Rooster and Mrs. Hannigan torture Mannu (Annie) by slapping her around and cutting her face with a knife, and THEN forcing her to ride a rollercoaster. IT IS NUTS. Anil and King Uncle rescue her, cue more crazy stunt fist fights, and embrace her bloody face.

Yeahhhhhh... Can't see this one getting a G rating in the US!! Not worth watching unless you must see every SRK movie ever made. There is not enough SRK in this movie, period, to justify the waste of time. Oy, Jackie Schroff I'm glad you became a better actor since this one. The kid that played Mannu was cute and had spunk, which is about the best I can say about this movie.

With Jamie Foxx remaking Annie, it makes me wonder what SRK would be like playing a Daddy Warbucks role. He'd mop the floor with Jackie Schroff, that's for sure.