Disney+India="Roadside Romeo"

[furtech]

Just heard an interesting piece on the news about how seriously Disney is taking the Indian market (3 out of ten kids in the world are Indian!). Their first collaboration is a CG animated feature titled, " Roadside Romeo ". The story: A rich, cool, spoiled brat of a dog is abandoned on the wicked streets of Mumbai. He faces new situations and dangerous, loony characters, the likes of which he has never met before. The promo trailers are pretty funny-- especially if you know Bollywood: Romeo does impersonations of India's cliche' male stars.

You can bet there's a built-in fandom for these characters already! The female co-star (played by Kareena Kapoor) .... well, you figure it out: Laila's video

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[mistahbojangles.livejournal.com]

Looks a darn sight better than the pigeon movie Valiant. The character designs look pretty cool and I like the touches that let you know this is a foreign production (and not blanketed by US pop culture references). Fingers crossed that it'll be a picture to enjoy once it's out.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

What I'm hoping for is that Disney does more of these-- lower-budget animated films, especially not targeted to the US. The trouble now is that every Disney animated feature *has* to be another "Lion King" or it's considered a failure-- so they over-develop projects so that they are *guaranteed* to be a success. Or worse, if the film looks like it might be a hit, every exec tries to stick their "creative" finger into the production so that they can take credit for its success. The days of sleeper hits like Mulan or Lilo are pretty much gone (actually, they were already gone, but those two snuck through somehow).

[fatkraken.livejournal.com]

that looks kinda fun; any news on if it'll be relesed outside the subcontinent? the UK has a pretty substantial Indian population, so maybe it'll make it this far

[furtech.livejournal.com]

When I googled the title, a lot of the press articles were British (eg, BBC) -- so I'm guessing it will get released in the UK. Also, the news story I watched made a point to say that it will be dubbed into the various Indian dialects as well as English!

[fatkraken.livejournal.com]

heh, cool.

India is a crazy country, language wise. A friend of mine is from Bangalore, and when she goes to Mumbai, she communicates in English as she doesn;t speak the local language. English is the widespread second language for most Indians, as there are so many regional languages (completely different, not just minor variations) they need something universal

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

A Disney / Bollywood movie... the mind boggles!

I hope we eventually get to see it here.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see what the item number will look like!

[martes.livejournal.com]

That's the cleanest and best-fed Indian street cur I've ever seen...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Roz Gibson directs a Bollywood animated feature-- now THAT boggles me! "She is a leper-- but I luff her!"

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Besides, remember: this is *Bollywood*! It will have the cleanest Dalaits, the prettiest transvestites and the most respectable beggers you've ever seen*!

*Pretty much all in the same film...

[renniefox.livejournal.com]

I'm so can't wait to compare it with Bolt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(2008_film))!

The only thing I don't like about that trailer is Yash Raj logo font. I bet a high-schooler can do better then that.

[vickimfox.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

It stars Saif Ali Khan as Romeo. This will be fun. He also stared in the Bollywood hit "Hum Tum", which is my favourite Indian movie!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Tum

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

wow man.. hehheh.. thanks for the heads up! (maybe see you this weekend)..

[cheetah-spotty.livejournal.com]

I can't believe Disney is lending it's name to this. The animation and the character Design in the trailers look like some amateur fandom production.

[ruggels.livejournal.com]

Innnnteresting.

I notie there are a couple of "rigging odditieson theshoulders, but that's the hardest part to do. However....

the quality of the animation itself is superior, Very good sense of weight and balance and the"holds" dont' lose life and become statues, there is always some nice shift of balance going on. I also noticed that there is some sort of a large "deformer" over the whole model which is used to add squash and stretch to the motion, it's subtle but it's very nicely done.

Not familiar with Bollywood, but I am not a fan of musicals in general, though.

Scott