Right, I'm grabbing the chase of everyfilmin2011 seriously. And that will mean tracking down the Turks and the Tamils.
In the UK there are lots of Turkish and Tamil movies released. Finding subtitled versions, however, is not easy.
For four months, I've been trying to grab a copy of Ata Demirer's Eyyvah Eyvha 2. Finally, it arrived via a well-known internet auction site.
It provided my first experience of Turkish comedy and, while it took a good half hour for me to get into the flow (partially because I had not seen the first film), by the end I was wearing a nice big smirk.
Stand-up comedian Demirer, was writer, director and star of a film which follows an affable clarinet player's quest for the girl he loves, the local nurse.
It does have one thing in common with much Hollywood or even Bollywood fare: the love match is uneasy on the eye.
Demirer is a big clumsy guy with a permanently upturned upper lip (his friend calls him Shrek!) but the object of his affections Ozge Borak is an outstanding beauty
I can't say beautiful nurses would often fall in love with overweight musicians who are ten years older, but hey, this is fantasy.
What I will say is that Demirer has smashing comic timing. Often in everyfilmin2011 I have found that foreign comedies don't translate that well (I miss out on the cultural references).
I can't say whether the same applied here but there are a lot of physical gags in Eyyvah Eyvah 2 and I laughed out loud four times.
The plot was actually more Bollywood style than I had expected with the nurse's father opposed to theunlikely union, believing his daughter was potentially marrying beneath her.
A myriad of farcical situations ensue as the couple and their friends try to convince him otherwise.
Demirer's movie was a wonderful entrance into the world of Turkish culture where family, respect and hospitality can make the world stop.
And, of course, where music is played at the drop of a hat.
It was a perfectly splendid way of spending a couple of hours and I'm giving it 7.5/10
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