Die Außerirdischen erscheinen in Tokio (1956)

Die Außerirdischen erscheinen in Tokio: Directed by Kôji Shima. With Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagisawa, Shôzô Nanbu. UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.

“With a funny sounding name and Ranbir Kapoor as a lead character, I assumed that this might be one of the popcorn movies that target the college going demographics, who want a u0026quot;time passu0026quot; movie. But boy I was wrong.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie is not a typical Bollywood movie. There are no spoilt rich college kids, characters do not hangout at McDonalds or other u0026quot;hipu0026quot; joints, no designer clothes, no gaudy weddings and u0026quot;balle balleu0026quot; dances, characters do not break into a song every 5 minutes. There are no u0026quot;Rahulsu0026quot; and u0026quot;Priyasu0026quot; and u0026quot;Poojasu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie deals with the issue of business ethics – especially ethics in sales and its importance in customer relations. The hero – who is almost a failure in studies, but has very high moral standards, tries to fight and survive in the dog-eat dog world of selling assembled computers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story line is taut, focused and do not deviate from the main theme, the direction is excellent. In directorial terms, Rocket Singh is far ahead of Chak De India. I think that has more to do with storyline.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only weak point is an unnecessary love angle – the director could have complete avoided that character. Also, the storyline could have avoided a predictable mushy endingu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAlso, why does characters have to swear so much – u0026quot;s**tu0026quot; word is careless tossed around in the movie, while the female characters uses the word u0026quot;a@@u0026amp;**eu0026quot;. Is swearing in English considered to be u0026quot;hip and coolu0026quot; while criticising Vishal Bhardwaj for using Hindi swear words in u0026quot;Omkarau0026quot;?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the real show stealer is Ranbir Kapoor. He breathes life into the role of computer salesman. He gets into the skin of character, he is not afraid playing a role of loser and does not look uncomfortable speaking Hindi or Punjabi. I hope he gets a nomination for this role. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e9/10 – 8 would have been fine, but 9 because it is a Yash Chopra production and still avoid all the clichés of Yashraj banners.”