• Prem Ratan Dhan Payo - a delightful take on The Prisoner of Zenda

    1 month ago - By Happy Catholic

    While recovering from an assassination attempt four days before his coronation, a stern prince is replaced by a romantic lookalike. I love The Prisoner of Zenda, a classic adventure novel where a king has disappeared so a foreign "look alike" is called upon to impersonate him. Naturally, the impersonator can't help but interject some of his own personality in chance encounters, such as with the king's fiancee, and soon sees where the king's deficiencies lie.
    This movie is a fun, frothy fairy tale loosely based on that story, tweaked to become Indian and, thus, much more family oriented...
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