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)... |