Prince and Beggar of the 21st century. Another amazing film with Gopichand in the title role, I watched yesterday. And in a double leading role, only this time he played just two similar as two drops of water to each other, people. After all, it has long been known that every person on the planet has 7 doubles. They can live in any country, have any skin color and any nationality, speak any language, but be like you like two drops of water. And the Almighty, I think, the imagination is also not unlimited to invent 7.5 billion different faces (and how many such billions there have been over the past millennia), because the world is born twins, triplets and other - baby-suckers - with the same appearance. Plus a couple of different people.
And here's the story of how two completely identical guys met, but from completely different social backgrounds. One is the son of the largest billionaire in India, and the second lives in the slums of the same India (which is why I called this review, by analogy with the work of Mark Twain).
Gotham and Nanda met absolutely by chance, on the night road. Gotham The son of a billionaire, was born in a golden cradle, and from birth had everything possible. He lives in a huge mansion with a lot of servants, guards, cooks, etc. His family has a private jet, a garage full of all sorts of cars, a wardrobe the size of a huge museum hall, and much, much more. But he never experienced any emotion in his life other than happiness. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year - one continuous happiness and pleasure. Any desire was foreseen when he did not even have time to think about it. In all his life he did not shed a single tear, because there was no reason, he did not know what love, friendship, suffering, hunger, thirst, pain, tears, etc. His father is constantly busy with business, and his mother is always traveling abroad. Goutam did not know the love of his parents, he was raised by a nurse who became his nanny. The only living creature that is very expensive Gotam is his dog Boomer, a breed of Bobtail, which is with the owner always and everywhere.
And then one day, at another party in a nightclub, Gotham quarreled with an elderly waiter. But asking the old man a question - "Do you know who I am?", in response I heard a counter question - "Do you know who you are?" Here I am a waiter, he is (hand gesture to the side) - chef, he is a janitor, and you - who? This question plunged the guy into a stupor, he wondered, who is he really? Just the son of a billionaire, and he is nothing. This upset Goutama, and he was under the influence of alcohol, rushed along the night road at all times. Accelerating the car to indecent speed, he evaded an oncoming truck, accidentally hit a person. It made him a little sober, he stopped and went out to see who he hit.
The man who was hit was a complete double of Goutama, Nanda, a poor man from the slums, who fell under the wheels of the machine Goutama. He graduated from college, has a degree in software engineering, has developed a phone app that nobody needs. He has no job, his father constantly slaps him for it, shames him, reproaches that Nanda is already 30 years old, and he sits around the neck of his parents, that his sister should be married, and there is no money for the wedding, his mother has been walking in one sari for 10 years, because there is nothing to buy a new one, the family is mired in debt to the ears, and even eating 2 times a day is not always possible. Nanda dreams of getting rich quickly and becoming a billionaire in order to get only pleasure from life. Destiny gave him this chance, confronting him with Gotham. The guys started talking, and after learning about each other’s problems, they decided to switch places for 30 days to experience something they had never experienced in their lives.
And here Goutham learns "all the charms" of the life of the poor - leaky roof of the house, mosquitoes, cockroaches, from food only rice with gravy once a day, the trailer brings water once every two days, and to collect it, you need to push through the crowd of people with buckets and jugs, for the first time wears lungs, which even do not know how, and much more. But he finds a real family, learns what is the love of his mother, the anger of his father, the adoration of his sister, real friends, what is mutual help and support of neighbors, what is hunger and thirst, and meets his first true love in the person of a neighbor’s girl, finds work for 8 thousand rupees a month. And he's really happy.
At the same time, Nanda learns all the charms of a rich life, has fun with sexy girlfriends, flies to the Maldives and the Caribbean, eats anything she wants, sleeps as much as she wants, drives all the cars from the garage and just shits money. And he is happy that he does not need to think about anything, everything is done for him by other people. He always dreamed of such a “paradise” life.
But with a week to go until the end of the month, both guys start having problems. How will they be able to return to their former life? And it's all very interesting, too.
I haven’t seen a movie like this in a long time, it really stuck with me. Especially remember the words spoken before the beginning, voiceover: There are more than 200 countries on the planet, 7.5 billion people, 6 thousand different languages, many religions and religions, but all people in the world are united by one thing - Money! This lifeless paper has made people live by their own rules and dance to their tune for thousands of years. The earth revolves around the sun and people revolve around money. Every person’s life is built around money. As long as money rules the world, people will never be really happy.
In general, a very strong film, with an interestingly presented story, with the right idea, with a message to people how to preserve humanity in any life situation, and how a person can change the suddenly fallen on him wealth. I highly recommend seeing an interesting and instructive story.
10 out of 10.
P.S. The thirst for money is the worst of all evils on earth. - Buddha Goutama.