odadune
Star of the item number
not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
Posts: 1,494
Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Feb 13, 2015 20:15:42 GMT
A good old thread from the good old days, that corbie was asking about. Couple examples from movies: -the 1970s family drama Humhare Tumhare has Rakhee as the mother of a family that includes college-age children, which together with the way she is styled and dressed, suggests that her character is 38-39 at a minimum and more likely in her forties. Towards the end of the movie she gets shot by the villain, lapses into a coma, spends time in the hospital, and then wakes up and announces (somewhat indirectly) to her husband that she's pregnant again. I dunno, maybe we're supposed to think that the doctors noticed this while she was unconscious and are lying through their teeth to the family so as not to upset them further, but it seemed pretty flaky on the doctors' part. - Baby (2015) Okay, I liked this movie, and was relieved when the character in question survived this experience but {Click to view!} Saudi not-Arabia (official name as rendered by the subtitles is "Saudi Aldera") has some amazing doctors who can clean out a stab wound to the gut (made at an angle that looks like it was guaranteed to hit the intestines, a virtual death sentence) so well that the victim can walk around doing stuff, but can't bandage the wound well enough enough for the bandage to stay put.
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rainsongs
Dancing in the chorus
Putting on too much eyeliner and pretending to be Meena Kumari
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Post by rainsongs on Feb 19, 2015 23:32:57 GMT
Well, there's always Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Because catering to someone's delusions is a totally reasonable and peer-reviewed treatment for amnesia!
But my favorite is Dil Ne Jise Apne Kaha, where Preity dies and donates her heart to another character, who then falls in love with Salman (Preity's husband). She sneaks into his house and is generally a creeper, and even knows things that only Preity knew, because she has her heart. That's not how organ donation works!
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai is a hospital drama, so it's full of medical crises plot devices. In particular, there's one where Raaj Kumar is perfectly healthy, but then falls over from a punctured lung (IIRC) so he can lie delirious in a hospital bed confessing his love for Meena Kumari in front of his wife.
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Post by corbie on Feb 20, 2015 0:08:26 GMT
I will have to start remembering some. Anthony, Akbar and Anthony, the doctor touched her wrist and declared her pregnant.
Koyla, a slit throat can make a dumb person talk again.
There was one where a child was bit by a snake and was lying there and an old man came along and took one look at him and said, snake bite!
Disco Dancer, running can fix a broken leg, Shah Rukh did the same in one of his.
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Post by ShantiSal on Mar 3, 2015 7:48:12 GMT
I think it was in Koyla - SRK's character was mute and then having been left for dead somewhere in the hills he is rescued by some chap living in a fairly basic dirt-floored hut. This chap then performs delicate throat surgery by oil lamp-light and, Hey Presto!, SRK's character is no longer mute. Truly amazing
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Post by emily on Mar 3, 2015 19:05:46 GMT
Fanaa - "It's a very slim chance, but we think surgery can heal your eyes." {Spoiler} Presto! Your eyes are fixed! Guess that slim chance wasn't so slim after all, eh?
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dreamygirl
Junior artiste
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Upcoming release you're most excited about: the next Aamir Khan; Aish's comeback
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Post by dreamygirl on Mar 5, 2015 18:59:11 GMT
Yes - Fanaa! And how when he takes the bandages off her eyes are perfect, with mascara and eye-shadow intact.
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