When I heard that Talvin Singh had worked on
the soundtrack of a Bollywood movie, I had to
see it.
Especially when I learned that Salman
Rushdie's girlfriend, Padma Lakshi, was one of the stars.
Gutsy Supermodel Main Squeeze of "Mr. Fatwa"
So I did.
Eerie, slow-loading web-home of "Boom the Film"
Boom was a complete disaster in the Indian film
audience. In fact, Boom is just a complete
disaster. The fact that it's truly a bomb, that's
just what makes Boom so great.
Bollywood critics writhe in embarrassed pain
The Bollywood audience is never real big
on plot realism, but BOOM is about three ditzy,
sexy, deeply spoilt Bombay models who
become armed bank robbers in a doomed
attempt to placate evil diamond-smuggling
Bombay mafiosi living offshore in Dubai.
The pitch is "the fashion world meets the
underworld."
This film is unbearably campy because
it is telling the truth. The fashion world in
Mumbai really *is* meeting the underworld.
This flick lays that fact out in a way that is so
snide, weird and transgressively edgy that it's
hard to believe that it came out of India.
Boom may be a strange, clumsy,
badly acted, tasteless, deeply awful movie,
but as sociology, it's one of the most revealing
films I've ever seen.
