But Durjan Singh is Her votary too, and seems to have Her favor for a time. Moreover, Mother Durga is a devotee of Kali, (the goddess Durga’s mythological sister/daughter/alter-ego), the black, skull-garlanded Devi who likes blood offerings, yet is also approached affectionately as “Maa.” (“Mom”). ![]() Motherhood is powerful in Bollywood, and never more so than here (watch Salman and Shah Rukh make filial love to Rakhee’s feet!). ![]() All this is just for starters, in a riotously intertextual and quotation-ridden film that boldly hybridizes Hindu goddess mythology, the Mahabharata, and a range of pop classics including MOTHER INDIA, SHOLAY, DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE, and INDIANA JONES IN THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.Įvery Indian viewer will know that the film’s eponymous loyal brothers are named for the tragically sundered half-brothers of the Bharata epic, here reunited, only to be separated (and reunited!) again - it fairly makes one’s head spin, which seems to be the idea. Why are two strapping hunks like Karan and Arjun (Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) laboring in a Rajasthani quarry among lines of scrawny extras? Earning paise, of course, with which to buy bangles for their adored and long-suffering mother, Durga (Rakhee), who, we soon learn, is actually the daughter-in-law of the local Thakur or feudal landlord, unjustly cast out years before by his terminally evil nephew, Durjan Singh (Amrish Puri), who also murdered her husband.
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