#17 War

January 17, 2021
War (2019) ****
Prime
Free
Bollywood

I had never seen a Bollywood movie before last October, beyond one I saw part of and hated it so much, I had to bail. But my friend Amber is a big fan, so she invited her friends to do an online group watch of Rab Ni Bana Di Jodi for her birthday, and I was like, why not?

I’m pretty sure that all of the watchers besides Amber were Bollywood noobs, and all of us freaked out at how sooper awesome the movie and the star, Shah Rukh Khan, were, so we all decided to have Bollywood Club and watch a movie once a month together. Amber gives us a few movies to choose from, and whatever gets the most votes, we watch.

This month we moved off of SRK movies, because there are apparently other Bollywood leading men, and moved onto Hrithik Roshan. I don’t think I voted for War, but I will thank forever in my prayers whoever did, because this movie is SO AWESOME!

It is Plot Twist: The Movie! It is Smoldering Looks: The Movie! It is the gayest thing that ever gayed, with Hritik and Tiger Shroff as two government agents, first working together, then against each other, and with the longing gazes and the fight sequences that are literally dances with guns, I have rarely enjoyed myself so much at a movie, and I may watch it every day.

And, because it’s Bollywood, there are two big production numbers even in this film about running and shooting, and when the film was over, we rewound back to watch the first one again. Rab Ni Bana Di Jodi is still my favourite Bollywood film, but War is so close on its heels as to basically be a tie.