Well I must admit with no hint of embarassment that I watched Salaam Namaste for the second time this evening, only a week after I watched it for the first time.
Why? Well becasue I enjoyed it. Becasue I like to see the human spirit triumph through adversity, and even though all these movies can be cast out of that same mould, each story takes a different route to get there, and therefore, can teach or exhibit different values or morals or lessons, or whatever, quite frankly. And they also entertain.
Salaam Namaste is, I imagine, quite a controversial movie, as it confronts some key issues which are thought to be quite taboo for mainstream Indian society. These include a guy and girl who are going out, moving in together, the substition of the glorious hug-after-a-run-through-a-field-of-flowers scene with quite provocative kissing; and the standard western, M-rated sex scenes. And these are all played out by two of the leading lights of Bollywood, Priety Zinta, and Saif Ali Khan.
I can only imagine what the elder members of Indias society must be thinking. Not that this is a true barometer of society, but only as an indication of where things are at from only a few years ago.
This subject has the ability to open a whole other debate, which we won't go into, but the movie is controversial, and will continue to be so, until this becomes the norm.
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