bollywood ROCKS!

last night, i had some time to kill in Jaipur after a day of sightseeing. seems the the cinema there is popular also with the tourists, so a British couple I met during the day and I decided to have a go at it.

the theater was beautiful in a bollywood kind of way. there was assign seating and we sat in the Ruby section, probably the front third of the theater.

the movie itself was really good. we could make out the whole plot and even caught some of the funny stuff. it seemed like it was loosely based on "one flew over the cookoo's nest" with some singing, dancing, and of course, love, thrown in. an interesting twists of plots here and there. very very good.

the audience chatters the whole time and there was never really complete silence, but the sound system blasted loudly enough to compensate. people's cell phones ring commonly, and they answer them! funny.

the thing that took us most by surprise was that at around 8pm (started at 6:30pm), people started leaving and the doors were opened. then the lights came on in hte middle of the film. well, it turns out that the bollywood films are so long (typically 3 hrs), there is intermission!

a great time indeed.

(i'm in Agra now, going to see the Taj Mahal tomorrow!)