"King Khan" plays second fiddle

Sometimes appear in India, not just movie stars like gods, but as aliens. Like Zahir Khan (Bollywood hero Shah Rukh Khan). His very first appearance in the film "Billu Barber" proves it. Da tanzt der Beau mit vielen leicht bekleideten Mädchen auf dem Filmset an Bord eines Raumschiffs.

Everything as usual? By motion, because "King Khan" plays in this film, exceptionally, only the second fiddle. Instead, the unsuccessful Billu barber (Irrfan Khan is known as a policeman in "Slumdog Millionaire") in the center of the action. Zahir Khan turns as a movie in his village, the villagers aware of him. The two men were not even old friends? Billu could not arrange a meeting with the Star? Or even get a role? Soon, the impoverished family man overwhelmed by requests, but also false friends. The barber, the crowds always weird - especially since the well-shielded Star simply not rankommt.

Clearly, if there is a kinoverrücktes people on this earth, then these are the Indians. Nowhere else can you go more often to the cinema, stars are worshiped as here. Director Priyadarshan also shows how different the world of difference between ordinary people and the Leinwandgöttern, especially in India where the differences appear between rich and poor and the box unbridgeable. Ironically, sometimes sentimental, but in his masala melodrama mix is also very entertaining, "Billu Barber" a peculiar mix of neorealism and cinema dream. A mixture, which nevertheless succeeds: The improbable was just always been a reality in Bollywood, the desire for perfect entertainment as well. That's Hindi entertainment!