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8 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Indian army won't recruit someone like Lal Singh Chaddha 

Depends on manpower & bodies...  Forrest Gump is based on American idea to enlist even lower IQ but just enough smart to follow orders during Vietnam war.

In peacetime that guy certainly won't have made it.

 

I haven't watched LSG but I am assuming they will follow standard 1971 war pattern could be 65 but hell who knows.   Since it's obviously a copy but book version states that Gump was not reta*d but autistic. 

In 71 half of IA was stationed on high alert on Chinese side. 

Numbers advantage was not that superior vis a vis Pakistan in 71 unlike 1965 when we were facing a technically superior Pak army & PAF & its mechanized infantry. 

So in theory during the movie they will sonehow recruit Lal Singh on those fictional grounds as well during wartime since well it's a copy. 

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5 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Depends on manpower & bodies...  Forrest Gump is based on American idea to enlist even lower IQ but just enough smart to follow orders during Vietnam war.

In peacetime that guy certainly won't have made it.

 

I haven't watched LSG but I am assuming they will follow standard 1971 war pattern could be 65 but hell who knows.   Since it's obviously a copy but book version states that Gump was not reta*d but autistic. 

In 71 half of IA was stationed on high alert on Chinese side. 

Numbers advantage was not that superior vis a vis Pakistan in 71 unlike 1965 when we were facing a technically superior Pak army & PAF & its mechanized infantry. 

So in theory during the movie they will sonehow recruit Lal Singh on those fictional grounds as well during wartime since well it's a copy. 

They are showing Kargil war comparing it to Vietnam war. What they showed in Forest gump is real incident but nothing like that ever happened in India where they recruited autistic people in the army. How can one even compare Vietnam war with Kargil war. In Kargil, we fought to get our land back while USA invaded Vietnam. We didn't invade Pakistan. Pakistani army did try to invade Kargil Siachin area.

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48 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

They are showing Kargil war comparing it to Vietnam war. What they showed in Forest gump is real incident but nothing like that ever happened in India where they recruited autistic people in the army. How can one even compare Vietnam war with Kargil war. In Kargil, we fought to get our land back while USA invaded Vietnam. We didn't invade Pakistan. Pakistani army did try to invade Kargil Siachin area.

Geez that's a blunder...  Kargil wasn't even a war for the most part a localized conflict more like.  71 carries so much significance in our history.  Blunder by makers.  Amir running off from mountains with machine gun fire vs  Forrest running around a tropical forest to survive a looming deadly Air strike. 

 

One more reason to not watch this crap. 

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4 hours ago, Lone Wolf said:

Geez that's a blunder...  Kargil wasn't even a war for the most part a localized conflict more like.  71 carries so much significance in our history.  Blunder by makers.  Amir running off from mountains with machine gun fire vs  Forrest running around a tropical forest to survive a looming deadly Air strike. 

 

One more reason to not watch this crap. 

It is a fictional movie. They can show anything based on artistic freedom. If they are trying set some fake narratives or even the narrative of the original where wars fought by USA are shown of being hypocritical nature, then it will be bad. I don’t care if they show a person of lower IQ fighting a war. 

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Scathing review by an American.

 

https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2022-08-12/laal-singh-chaddha/?s=09

 

“Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original “

 

Aamir Khan has made a caricature out of Forrest Gump

 

”Laal Singh Chaddha makes some of those changes, but most of the adjustments are for the worse. Gump's girlfriend Kareena Kapoor/Rupa’s journey is significantly different in this version of the story however, eschewing the subtextual commentary provided by Jenny’s travels through the underground in the original in favor of a simple girlfriend-of-a-gangster tale. Through no fault of Kapoor’s, Rupa’s arc is almost completely flat, removing one of the most interesting aspects of the original”

 

Rather than Hanks’ straightforward portrayal of a man with a low IQ, probably somewhere on the autism spectrum, Khan plays Laal as a caricature of an intellectually disabled protagonist; imagine Billy Bob Thornton from Sling Blade, but less subtle. It’s almost painful to watch, as he’s known as one of India’s finest actors but when challenged with this character, he overshoots by a mile, bringing to mind a certain quote from Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder that I am hesitant to restate here, but you probably know the one about never going full …”

 

“Chandan’s direction similarly seeks to do little more than mimic the original, with dozens of shots directly lifted, almost as if he simply played the movie on set and asked his actors to make the exact same motions with the exact same camera moves. It’s more a reenactment than a remake, something like Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, but Gumpier”


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While Forrest Gump had rescued his own unit chief Lt Dan in Vietnam, carrying him on his back and running them both to safety, Laal Singh the ‘secular’ Chaddha here rescues a Pakistani terrorist named Mohammad. Let us not even go into the implausibility of how a trained Indian Army soldier cannot differentiate between his own brothers in the Army and the enemies. Aamir Khan’s compulsive propaganda peddling habits have perhaps overwhelmed his common sense.

 

And thus, Gary Sinise’s legendary, historic character from Forrest Gump becomes an Islamist terrorist, a ‘good’ person apparently because that is what Aamir Khan and Atul Kulkarni the writer wants Indians to swallow. This propaganda peddling doesn’t even stop here. The good terrorist is shown doing Namaz, (Lt Dan was an atheist and he later made peace with God, that was one of the best sub narratives in Forrest Gump) and our Laal Singh declares that Puja Path is useless, they only spread ‘malaria’.

 

The audience could easily have been okay with a character being an atheist, a non-believer, but because Bollywood’s czars cannot go without shaming Indian culture, mostly Hindu culture, Aamir Khan has to force-fit his propaganda here.

 

Even in PK, Sushant Singh’s character was a ‘good Pakistani’ named Yusuf. There is nothing wrong in showing a good Pakistani, but when you juxtapose them with ‘bad’ Indians and bad Indian religious habits repeatedly, somewhere down the line, the audience is going to realise that you have been taking them for a ride, selling lazy, gratuitous propaganda and trying to make a profit of the very people u keep mocking.

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