My high hopes for Veer were somewhat dampened after viewing the movie. It seems that Indian moviemakers cannot break free from the romantic interludes, and improbable heroic feats which take away from the importance and suspense of a serious subject; the colonial history of India. Yet when I settled into my Indian movie mode I enjoyed myself a lot. Indian movies are also seen in Africa, so Africans and African culture are playing an increasingly more important role. As extra’s and as musicians. Then I love it when they break out all their finery and create fantastic and modern sets with all the beautiful Indian architecture, decorations etc. The women are dressed to the hilt in swirling silk numbers, and dangerously heavy metal objects disguised as huge jewellery. The men can be sexy to.
On the serious side I was intrigued to know how the Indians in England during the Victorian and Edwardian Era really lived. The Maharaja’s seemed to have their palaces, and they had their own gentlemen clubs. There is a book about blacks in Victorian England which shows a whole different image of blacks in England during the colonial era. I still have to get hold of that one.
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