Review of Padosan

Padosan (1968)
5/10
You had to grow up seeing it to actually find it funny
12 July 2022
It's all competent enough, I suppose. But this is from the everyone's-a-cartoon school of comedy -- the kind where a young man reads a book that tells him he should be celibate to 25, then a householder from 25-50, and suddenly realizes he's six months past his 25th birthday, then falls in love with the first young woman he sees.

OMG was that a spoiler? I hope not, because that's your movie. So there isn't anything to spoil. Nice songs though.

FWIW, I'm not Indian, nor ever saw any Indian movies growing up. But I have seen over 150 Indian movies in the last ten years, from the 1940s to the 2010s, and I find that many* classic Indian comedies just don't translate to those who didn't grow up seeing them. A shame really.
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