Gunday (Goons, Hindi; 2014 ) If you think that the story of two bosom buddies who would die for each other fall for the same girl is an overused formula which had been around since the days of Sangam (1964) , you are wrong. It looks that this formula will be used again and again in different settings even into the next generation. Two boys who grew through thick and thin as refugees after the 1971 Pakistani Civil War, grew up strong and rich just to be floored by a curvaceous member of the opposite gender. This leads to a showdown where the two buddies have to evaluate their friendship over perfunctory songs, melodrama, picturesque landscape, rainbow hued dresses and various stages of undressing! Being set in Calcutta, the mandatory scenes of Howrah Bridge, fish market and Durga Pooja made their prominent appearances. Bikram and Bala grew up stealing coal from the goods train to slowly build themselves an empire of wealth fro black market business. They become proud I...
It is all Mimesis