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From BethLovesBollywood:

Shakti humping SalmanPrem gets some loving from Gogo
img: via BethLovesBollywood

Beth’s post also brings up a couple of monumental questions:

Is Andaz Apna Apna (AAA) the funniest Bollywood movie ever?

and the question that puzzled AAA fans ……………..

How did it flop so badly?

For the record, I think that AAA was one of the funniest Bollywood movies. The comedy style was slapstick and over the top but very clean - along the lines of Padosan.

The movie flopped for a variety of reasons:
1. The movie took too long too make as is evident in the late 80s-early 90s hair styles. Aamir and Salman were not as hot in 1994 as in the late 80s and early 90s.
2. Junta was expecting a love story with dinchak music and some comedy thrown in. Instead they got an out and out slapstick comedy with 50s melodies.
3. A lot of the tapori ishtyle public on whom the success of most Bollywood movies depends just plain did not get the humor.

But it continues to thrive to this day - in people’s DVD collections. Is it in yours?
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    2 comments for “Bollywood Freeze Frame”

    1. 1: Vaibhav Patle | June 29, 2007, 11:38 am | Direct Link

      Yup definitely AAA is in my DVD collection. It is a cult classic from Bollywood having wide fellowship.

    2. 2: Runa | July 2, 2007, 2:10 pm | Direct Link

      Oh yes ! This is one of my favorites along with the afore mentioned Padosan ( which is my favorite Hindi comedy ever - tasteless stereotyping of Southies notwithstanding!)

      AAA has some pretty nice music and is the one movie in which Salman does not irritate me

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