CRITICISM – This benevolent remake of Tom Hanks says a lot about the country’s rift.
Does the seventh art need to be remade? Forrest Gump, a simple man whose racing spirit and kindness bring happiness around him? However, it would be cynical to remain insensitive to charms Laal Singh Chaddha, released in India and France this Thursday.
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Bollywood star Aamir Khan (match) captures the Candide character immortalized by Tom Hanks. The 57-year-old comedian, partially digitally rejuvenated, struggled for a decade to secure the rights to Zemeckis’ classics. Here Forrest is called Laal, a Sikh boy raised by his peasant mother in India in the seventies. Slow to understand, struggling to stand, he is the laughing stock of his comrades. With the exception of his little neighbor Rupa who finds in Laal and his mother the affections deprived of by his cruel father. Over the years, this childhood friendship inspires the young man with a feeling that Rupa doesn’t have, wanting to become a rich and famous actress.
When he wasn’t attacked as a Sikh, Laal witnessed a wave of unrest between Hindus and Muslims, abuse his mother gave him as a “malarial epidemic” to keep him out.
If he follows the bend…
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