![]() They also both have great casts who seem to have been having a blast filming it! (Word of warning: if this is your first Bollywood movie, you can go ahead and fast-forward through the song "Deewangi Deewangi," which is like 8 minutes of celebrity cameos and not as fun if you don't know who they are.) Like The Untamed, OSO does a fantastic job of balancing wacky hijinks with pathos, and you get sucked right in to the stylized melodrama. ![]() The second half picks up 30 years later, as our reincarnated hero (now a successful actor thanks to being reborn into an industry family) regains the memories of his past life and vows to avenge his and his beloved's deaths. The first half, set in the 1970s, follows a struggling actor smitten with a starlet. Since it invokes so many filmi tropes, it's accessible to newcomers, and gets better the more films you see. ![]() OSO is the film I show people who've never seen a Bollywood film before, and everyone-from my fellow adult friends to my 11-year-old students who saw one clip and then looked it up on Netflix on their own-has loved it. ![]()
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