What Indian film am I looking for?

January 17, 2007 1:31 PM

Help me identify a Bollywood film please.

When I was in Japan for a year from 1999-2000, a Bollywood film came out on video there. It got a surprisingly big release so I assume it's a well-known title in the Bollywood pantheon. It seemed like it was possibly a period piece, as everyone rode around on wagons. A mustachioed lead actor was attempting to woo a woman who lived in a huge country estate (for all I know it was his wife, since there were no subtitles). He kept busting out some kung fu on people between the songs, including once or twice when he whipped off his sash and wielded that as a weapon. I'm afraid that's all I can recall. Thanks for any help you can provide!

posted by ktoad to media & arts (6 comments total)

More details might help. Is this the actor? Could it be Taal?
If you think it was a Hindi movie, you could browse the Filmfare awards -- if it was a blockbuster-type movie it would likely be among the nominees.
posted by Methylviolet at 3:09 PM on January 17, 2007

If it wasn't a Hindi movie, I have no idea. However, this guy is the shizzle in Tamil, and he had a movie involving some wagons, a mansion, and Aishwarya Rai in 2000, that I happened to see.
posted by Methylviolet at 3:14 PM on January 17, 2007

Hmm. Thanks for the help, but someone else who saw the thread just emailed me. It seems the movie is "Muthu" from 1995, starring Shahrukh Khan. In Japan they renamed the film "Odori Maharaja" (The Dancing Maharaja).

Another mystery solved thanks to AskMeFi.
posted by ktoad at 4:15 PM on January 17, 2007

(Not Shah Rukh Khan.) It is interesting that a Tamil movie would be the top-grossing Indian movie in Japan -- weird.
posted by Methylviolet at 4:21 PM on January 17, 2007

A mustachioed lead actor was attempting to woo a woman who lived in a huge country estate (for all I know it was his wife, since there were no subtitles). He kept busting out some kung fu on people between the songs, including once or twice when he whipped off his sash and wielded that as a weapon.

That's like every Bollywood film I've seen;)
Glad you found the title though:)
posted by hadjiboy at 6:02 AM on January 18, 2007

the guy in question is actually Rajnikanth :)
posted by mordecai at 2:37 AM on January 22, 2007