I have to preface this rant by saying that I absolutely love Hindi movies...and have loved them since I discovered DIL SE at the Library a few years ago. I have 2 shelves of DVD's at home, and most of the movies I check out of the Library are Hindi. And I am learning Hindi so I can watch the movies without the subtitles.

However....

RAIN has got to be absolutely the WORST Hindi movie I've ever seen!!!!!

I read an article about it around the time it came out on DVD. The article said it didn't do well at the box office..supposedly because of its controversial material. I think it was probably because it was a poorly written, poorly acted movie.

It had promise in the beginning. Sandhya (Meghna Naidu) is an enigmatic writer, blind from birth, living alone who is terrified of rain. One day Prakash (Himanshu Malik), a journalist, seeks an appointment for an interview. Before his arrival, she starts hiding knives around the house. OK so far. He comes in the house and begins the interview. This is where it starts to fall apart...fast.

Prakash is a very badly written...and acted...character. Given the love of melodrama in most Hindi films, I tried to cut him some slack...but he goes way beyond the melodramatic to just plain ridiculous. "I'm a journalist...no wait, I'm a psycho who is trying to scare you to death...no wait, I'm a psychiatrist who wants to help you...no wait, I want to show you what love is...no wait, I really AM a psycho...and not just any psycho, but the psycho who made you afraid of the rain." (Remember, our heroine is blind, and wouldn't know him from SRK.)

And will someone please tell me how Sandhya's black nightie turns into a white one toward the end....just one of the many weirdnesses in this movie....no attention to detail.

I hate to admit I watched the whole thing. I kept hoping it would get better. I don't have a lot of free time, and it really annoys me that I wasted all that time watching this movie.

WW