Tahalka (1982)

The first to get ready A Bollywood film by Anil Sharma. India is being threatened by the military might of a belligerent country, Doongrila, obviously intended to represent China. The plot isn't particularly convincing, but like many Indian films of this genre, it is an opportunity for some thriller sequences, and also for plenty of song-and-dance numbers.


Number two is ready When the military crisis is threatening, a little way into the film, the generals need three young men to go on a dangerous mission. We cut to see the three young men in question; they are climbing the wall round a public swimming pool where many young women and girls are swimming. The three men leer at the women, and obviously need a plan to get near them.


Here is the third We cut to the next scene, and, one by one the three emerge from the changing rooms, each dressed in a woman's swimming costume, and complete with broad shoulders, adams apples and hairy arms.


But no-one notices But as always in this kind of situation, no-one else seems to realise that it is men masquerading as girls. The sequence lasts a minute or so.

HF February 2001


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