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Indian Babu (2003)
Very Interesting Movie - but Puzzling to this western mind.
I thought much of the acting was bad (cheesy), but the story was interesting and entertaining. Lots of nice music and colorful dancing ala Bollywood. The scene with the sister dancing in the rain was very sexy. Long movie that tried all the formulas: comic detective, chase scenes, extravagant song and dance scenes, etc. didn't know if I was watching an Indian film or a Kung Fu movie some of the time, but great action. Mostly I didn't get the end - it sure didn't follow the "Code of the West" ala Hollywood. I grew up on B or C grade westerns. I think the subtitles sometimes were not completely accurate or were too literal. Someone please explain!!!
I'm sorry this rambles so much - I was forced by the 10 line rule to break with my normally terse and straightforward writing style = it was better at 7 lines.
Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956)
Fair to learn the plot but very poor quality audio and video
Netflix offers this movie on DVD, dubbed with English dialog. There are a few arias in Italian thrown in, but the quartet is done with only the Duke's opening lines. The video quality is poor and was evidently done from scratched film - there are a lot of flecks and artifacts in each frame. The audio is pretty poor and the actors ability to lip sync the singing is almost non-existent. It does have Caruso singing three arias in the extras and that was better quality than the movie arias. Since this is a movie rendition not a stage production, the scenes and story are enjoyable to watch and easy to follow, especially since it is dubbed in English.