A little follow-up for you Indiaphiles, after I finished "13-B" I tried another film "1920" another Bollywood film which is presented in widescreen. I watched a little of it and it sort of reminded me of an early 1950's Bollywood film I once watched and probably is a remake. Bollywood isn't all that original and the "13-B" plot is stolen from a Japanese film whose title I can't recall at the moment.
I had a DVD to watch and so popped it in and it occurred to me to get the Coby FM transmitter I use to play podcasts over my car radio and use it with my AV Receiver. So I plugged it into the headphone jack on my laptop and suddenly the DVD came alive over my surround system. George Lucas was right about sound being so important in movies. Bhairitu wrote: > Being that my 53" HD set is suffering power supply problems and best to > leave off (except for setting up DVR recordings) I watched part of a > movie on Hulu last night. I was attracted to a Bollywood "horror" > offering "13 B" which is a story about a successful Indian businessman > who moves his family into a haunted apartment. The movie is like many > Bollywood films pretty dumb but in a different way than dumb Hollywood > films. It also shows you how "wacky" Indians can be. It also give you > a taste of how life is in modern Bombay (a bit different than when I was > there in 1996). It's over 2 hours long (like many Bollywood movies) and > yes love scenes are replaced by dancing. Unfortunately it isn't > presented in widescreen (come on Hulu, so many computers are running > 16:9 monitors anymore. All my laptops, I watched it on one of them, > even have 16:9 screens). I had to laugh at one scene where the guy is > told his apartment has "bad Vastu" and the subtitle puts "Feng Shui" in > parentheses behind the word vastu. ;-) > > http://www.hulu.com/13-b > >
