July 3 movie: Half Ticket. I got this because the Netflix description said it starred Pran (a Bollywood character actor I love -- he was the tightrope walking safe-cracking dad in Don). Actually it stars famed playback singer Kishore Kumar. This is the first example I've heard of where a playback singer also acted. And unfortunately, this movie doesn't recommend the practice. Kumar's hyperactive mugging and yelling was like fingernails on a blackboard to me. He's like the Jerry Lewis of Bollywood.
The plot of the movie has free-spirited Kumar getting tossed out of his father's house, and posing as a child -- a really big, really annoying child -- to get a half-fare train ticket. Pran is a jewel thief who slips his stolen booty into Kumar's bag to hide it from the cops. Then Pran spends the rest of the movie trying to get the diamonds back.
I can't tell you how it turns out, because I just couldn't sit through any more of Kishore Kumar's antics. Not even for Pran.
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oh my god, it's the crazy bollywood version of the major and the minor!