I've been enjoying Bollywood films lately. Shahrukh Khan has continued to earn my respect and affection as a versatile and accomplished actor. Not only that, but he has killer dimples and a lovely sense of humor.
Mahabbatein is a 216 minute movie that holds one's attention from beginning to end. It features three of the most accomplished and famous actors of the Bollywood stage: Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Amitabh Bachchan. A story of a contest between love and fear, the movie is set in a boy's college in India. Three young men meet and become roommates. They are influenced to pursue their heart by a new hire with a secret past. The new music teacher (Shahrukh Khan) strives to change the heart of the school and its headmaster (Amitabh Bachchan) in the interest of eternal love (as opposed to honor, tradition, and discipline.)
The three young men and their love stories provide the plot and the three primary characters provide the framework and unity for the plot. Is love worth it? Or, as Tolstoy might ask, "What do men live by?" Tolstoy answers, "I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselvs, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love "(Tolstoy, What Men Live By, 1881.)
Mahabbatein is a 216 minute movie that holds one's attention from beginning to end. It features three of the most accomplished and famous actors of the Bollywood stage: Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Amitabh Bachchan. A story of a contest between love and fear, the movie is set in a boy's college in India. Three young men meet and become roommates. They are influenced to pursue their heart by a new hire with a secret past. The new music teacher (Shahrukh Khan) strives to change the heart of the school and its headmaster (Amitabh Bachchan) in the interest of eternal love (as opposed to honor, tradition, and discipline.)
The three young men and their love stories provide the plot and the three primary characters provide the framework and unity for the plot. Is love worth it? Or, as Tolstoy might ask, "What do men live by?" Tolstoy answers, "I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselvs, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love "(Tolstoy, What Men Live By, 1881.)
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