Bobby

“मैं शायर तो नहीं, मैं शायर तो नहीं
मगर ऐ हसीं, जब से देखा मैंने तुझको मुझको
शायरी आ गई”

who was gonna tell me that damn song came from that damn movie

nevertheless i think this film is one of the most crazy ass bollywood romeo and juliet stories ever. how do you expect me to sit here and look at raj biting his aunt’s cheek and being sent to boarding school as a boy, then graduating as a man and his parents look the exact same???

also all the party scenes were so overstimulating

raj kapoor was ahead of his time with this movie. considering it was the 70s in india, his camerawork is elite!!! the songs are cute, but nothing except “main shair to nahin” stands out to me lol. rishi kapoor’s slight ugliness (that sounds so mean 😭) works for the character, making raja look oddballish and confused 24/7 lmao

dimple kapadia is SOOOO pretty in this one!!! the costumes and makeup team deserve their tens!

“मैं शायर तो नहीं, मैं शायर तो नहीं
मगर ऐ हसीं, जब से देखा मैंने तुझको मुझको
शायरी आ गई”

who was gonna tell me that damn song came from that damn movie

nevertheless i think this film is one of the most crazy ass bollywood romeo and juliet stories ever. how do you expect me to sit here and look at raj biting his aunt’s cheek and being sent to boarding school as a boy, then graduating as a man and his parents look the exact same???

also all the party scenes were so overstimulating

raj kapoor was ahead of his time with this movie. considering it was the 70s in india, his camerawork is elite!!! the songs are cute, but nothing except “main shair to nahin” stands out to me lol. rishi kapoor’s slight ugliness (that sounds so mean 😭) works for the character, making raja look oddballish and confused 24/7 lmao

dimple kapadia is SOOOO pretty in this one!!! the costumes and makeup team deserve their tens!

Wow, what a journey. Bought the soundtrack on a whim at the record store last week. LOVED the songs. Looked up the film on Kanopy. The transfer on that platform looks great. However, an hour and a half into the film. The English captioning offsets for about thirty minutes. Makes it UNWATCHABLE. I looked up the version on Tubi, it does the SAME thing . Ended up watching a dirty and cropped version on YouTube for the last hour and fifteen minutes. After three days and three different video services, was it worth trying all 180 minutes of Bobby? Other than it’s climatic ending, dance sequences and some of the performances (the actor who plays Bobby’s dad is the shit), I was really bored between each action sequence and musical numbers. It has a lot of filler, and it weighs down the pacing really bad. 

Did I like it though? It’s fun. I can totally see young teens enjoying this in 70’s India, but it’s not breaking any ground. Its climatic ending is worth note though. You’re a monster if you’re not cheering for our heroes at the end.

Wow, what a journey. Bought the soundtrack on a whim at the record store last week. LOVED the songs. Looked up the film on Kanopy. The transfer on that platform looks great. However, an hour and a half into the film. The English captioning offsets for about thirty minutes. Makes it UNWATCHABLE. I looked up the version on Tubi, it does the SAME thing . Ended up watching a dirty and cropped version on YouTube for the last hour and fifteen minutes. After three days and three different video services, was it worth trying all 180 minutes of Bobby? Other than it’s climatic ending, dance sequences and some of the performances (the actor who plays Bobby’s dad is the shit), I was really bored between each action sequence and musical numbers. It has a lot of filler, and it weighs down the pacing really bad. 

Did I like it though? It’s fun. I can totally see young teens enjoying this in 70’s India, but it’s not breaking any ground. Its climatic ending is worth note though. You’re a monster if you’re not cheering for our heroes at the end.