Fun Fact: The lead boy (Indian Harry Potter) aka Athit Naik went on to act in another big movie Kal Ho Na Ho and there is a small reference (I don't know if intentional or not) to his Abra ka Dabra past. In one scene, his on-screen grandmother calls him "Handsome" and says "He looks just like Hari Putter" and is then corrected by someone else as to the correct name "Harry Potter".
Some corrections: 1.The movie did not have any big names let alone the biggest 2. It was more of a B-grade movie 3. 1 million wasn't a huge amount for a Bollywood movie ever back then 4. It wasn't India's first 3D movie
@@lmss3309 Daniel maynot be , but the other adult actors were extremely popular award winning well established actors. Dude mcgonagall was literally a DAME
@@cringekiller348 How? Because he talked about a bad Indian movie being bad? Just because he's a foreigner doesn't mean all his points are invalid cause he's somehow'making fun of India'apparently according to you even though he in no way made the movie out to a bigger fiasco than the already huge one it was
I still remember a funny thing about this movie. Because this movie is marketed as 3d, they distribute 3d glasses in cinemas even for it's 2d version and I watched the 2d version of this movie with 3d glasses in my local cinema when I was a kid
@@ThomasSchannel where's he gonna find a bunch of Indian kids? I mean, if he's serious about it, I can make some calls. I know a guy who may cut a deal.
Correction : India's first 3D movie is 'My Dear Kuttichatan' made in 1984. It is a story about friendship between 3 children and a Kuttichatan ( a magical spirit) and their fight aganist Evil dark magican who wants to capture this spirit for his purpose.
Many people said this but btw: The real first 3d movie was made not in bollywood but in a smaller indian film industry known as 'mollywood'. It's not really small rather its pretty popular among south indian film fans (a very growing fandom) but it is rather unknown to foreigners (anything not bollywood basically). Its name is "My dear kuttychatan" btw.
@@usernamesareuseless262 yeah, they remastered it and a few extra scenes were added during its re-release in the 90s for the dubbed hindi and tamil versions.
@@hech-kay5060 ikr! this was released after Prisoner of Azkaban, so I think everyone knew about actual HP and thought this was very cringe lol. The idea of an Indian Hogwarts is undeniably cool though
Abracadabra was not indias 1st 3d movie, indias 1st 3d movie was a mollywood movie called "my dear kuttychaathan" which was the biggest hit in India during that time and was dubbed re edited and released to multiple languages across different years with updated scenes and effects to suite different film industries in India. That movie deserves a video essay of it's own
So you guys obviously seem to be part of the culture, so I have a question. The only thing I know about Bollywood is the elaborate and choreographed dance numbers. Are they really that big over there? Do you enjoy them?
@@Dakooties well glad you asked. Generally, Bollywood refers to movies released in Hindi. But India has many other film industries as well. Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and so on are different languages and have their own regional movie industries. Most of them have movies that shatter stereotypes of Indian cinema. Totally recommend watching them.
@@jc-px8ox I think, pardon me if I say this wrong, he wanted you to elaborate on the point of "dance numbers" as part of Indian movie industries culture more. While also knowing that Bollywood have many branches of sub-regional culture may be interesting like your answer, rather than listing them off (since general-international people probably don't familiar with those regional/industries name), try to be more clear on which one you like or recommend or why it differentiate from the other.
My sister used to watch this and even enjoy it. Then growing sick of it, I sat her down and we together watched the real Harry Potter movies. She is now a hard-core Potter head, even read the books.
Ikr it's like shoved in the back of my mind 🤣 Also... Just asking do you know of a movie about a father son magicians where the son accidentally get teleportated to New York. ? It's for research purpose 👀
"My Dear Kuttichathan" a malayalam movie coming from relatively small industry from south india (Kerala) made the 1st 3d movie of India in 1984. Malayalam movies often does not the get the spot light needs to get at the scale which they are pumping out one after another great movies,the story actors and direction is all well oiled machine in mollywood (malayalam industry) Taking the words of Bong Joon-ho "Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles" Malayalam movies are going to make you wonder.
1:25 "india's first ever 3d movie" nope there was a movie called "My Dear Kuttichathan" which was a south indian film made in 1984 almost 20 years before this movie.
Yes! In hindi it was called Chhota Chetan. Then it was rebooted with Urmila Matondkar and that was weird. I loved the original and it was the very first 3D movie of our country.
@@thesocialmisfit oops, my mistake. It isn’t Bollywood’s first 3d movie at all. But one thing that rings true even today is that it surely is one Bollywood’s most infamous 3d flops, mostly due to poor writing and huge amounts of bad technological decisions.
I remember Abra ka Dabra. I was 8 years old and while the craze for Harry Potter was huge, like many others, I didn't have the opportunity to watch them. Getting a DVD to watch it was difficult and more so to get time in an Indian Household to keep aside 3 hours to watch it. There was no way, we would go watch a children's movie and that too in English. I still remember watching the first full harry Potter movie in Azkaban. So a Indian movie was a god send, as I can force my parents to watch this. But the movie was a dud, nothing appealing to kids........ Even I at that age was not sure of what to enjoy in it. Except for Carpet riding than Broom riding.
Funnily, I get from this movie(from the snippets presented here) the vibe of the first two instalments of 80's Polish "Mr. Kleks" series(based on the books by Jan Brzechwa, written between WWII and early 60s). It's funny because the first instalment in the series, "Mr.Kleks's Academy" was first translated into English by Rowling, plus Helena Brzechwa(daughter of the author) accused Rowling of plagiarising it in "Harry Potter", though she never sued. The case wouldn't have been solid to begin with, as the only undeniable similarity is that mr. Kleks looks like Dumbledore, runs a boarding school, and is a wizard(kinda; what he does is based on fantasticalised Oriental philosophy).
6:27 Brother you are extremely streching it with the Biggest Bollywood movie or Biggest Bollywood actors argument. It was not the biggest Bollywood movie neither did it have the biggest Bollywood names. It's was a pretty B grade movie casting mostly well known supporting actors in Bollywood, NO BIG NAMES. These kind of Hyperbolic statements create extreme misconceptions about India and Indians in foreign minds. I was very young when this movie came out(the target demographic) and even I knew it was a straight to TV movie 😂
Thanks for saying this. Sometimes, narrators use hyperbole to make their point clearer, but in turn paints a false image of the whole thing. This was never going to be the "greatest movie of India" as Austin says.
They weren't the biggest names in Bollywood but there were several well know veterans of Bollywood like Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever, Razak Khan and Satish Kaushik. It wasn't a B-grade movie, more like an A-. The movie probably didn't have a big enough budget for a Hritik, Sharukh or some big star's cameo.
@@LetsPlayAceCraft yeah, the common American conception is India is a place full of scammers who poop in the streets next to their beggar children and chase after any woman who dares to go outside to r@pe and kill her. If they already think so lowly the fact that they have any movie scene of their own at all would be impressive. Like their bar is pretty low with how terrible they think the country is
Honestly, the idea of India having an answer to Hogwarts is by far the most interesting thing about this to me. I'm so used to magical schools being Europe-inspired that variations like that are really cool to see. The exterior design of the school is great and I love touches like the brooms being replaced by magic carpets. Honestly, I think I would be interested in a book series exploring a similar setting.
@@eb.3764 yeah, it's strange that India wasn't mentioned as having one of the big wizarding school. It makes sense since it's such a big country... like why add Mahotokoro, when you could have gone with India? No hate on Japan though I'm sure Mahotokoro is cool too.
1:29 Correction. India's first 3D movie was 'My dear Kuttichatthan' released in 1984. It was a Malayalam (Language of the South Indian state of Kerala) movie. It was way ahead of its time and had the Highlight box office collection for a long time. It is considered as one of the best movies from India (the later adaptations and dubbed versions were not that good though). And it's also about magic and children.
I'd like to correct that, this is at best a mediocre project for Bollywood of that particular time, the cast is mostly filled with b or c list actors and there are no MAJOR names attached to it. And I'd say that it was highly unlikely that this movie would succeed with decent numbers. Even to this day Bollywood doesn't have much in it's portfolio of the fantasy genre. In the past 2 decades Indians have grown really fond of major Hollywood franchises and they do well on the box office. On the other hand Bollywood is struggling after covid to even earn the costs of movies due to many reasons, but one major reason is definitely the lack experimentation in different genres.
@@Agnosticcc-x3m Well yes, but no. It was the dialogues and the romance which was cringy, but the vfx was top notch. And the story has great potential, but the execution was subpar at best.
I would've liked to know more about the talent behind the movie after it flopped in the end of the video. Where did they go afterwards? Did they have a successful career? Feels like the video needed a couple more minutes.
Only one of the two main girls became a relatively big name in regional Indian movies but I think she too had to go through a MMS leak Scandal once she grew up, other kid actors never became big. The older actors cast in this movie were already well known supporting actors in actual Indian movies, so they remained so
Most of the supporting cast were big names in themselves. For example, the Groundskeeper character Austin speaks of in the movie is played by Anupam Kher, he currently stars in multiple big budget (way way bigger than Abra ka Daabra's budget) and some Hollywood movies and shows too like New Amsterdam. The main girl lead is Hansika Motwani and she went on to become one of the biggest actors in South Indian cinema and has acted in about 100 or so movies by now. The main boy lead gave up acting and went on to become a Director of Photography after getting trained in LA.
@@apogeelord7013 I didn't mean regional as a derogatory term, if the movies release only in a particular region than they would be regional. Most Hindi movies are released all over India. Like Bhojpuri movies would be considered only regional as you won't find them out of their core region. Not all but many Telugu, Kannada movies only release mostly or near the state. It has started to Change a LOT but Hansika Motwani was doing good when it was confined to a region, so I mentioned regional films. I hope my explanation wa satisfactory 👍🏻
Did Mike Newell seriously say that? A.) Doesn't make sense B.) Mike Newell made the worst Harry Potter film so I'm not sure why he's criticizing anyone
That movie for kids under age of 13 super good you. Know when i was kid i enjoyed it so much ! It's Bollywood had not much money to commercialization of movies that time ++ Asians parents'🤥 always try to find logic and always decide what there kids must watch ! They always prefer 😑😐 mature content for there kids at that time 🤥! Now a days thing's changing tho since now new generation becoming parents haha who knows the imagination value that movie i watched and yeah it's a good blend of bollywood and Hollywood haha culture old Indian mythology mixed over-all story was great there visual also great as per the budget and that time technology !
Kudos to you for sitting through this monstrosity lol. It wouldn't need an experience producer to have a glance at this and predict that it's going to bomb or not
Kids were only taken in movie coz of their fair skin. That’s the issue with Bollywood. Their view is too Eurocentric. They stereotypically cast minorities from Northern india and mixed ppl as actors.
Fun fact: The music director of this film (guy in 30's) made his own movie, after 3-4 years, starred in it, and cast one of the child actors as his co-lead. (She was like 17 ish back then). So reunion vibes....
@@movieidiots5542 Mujhe aaj bhi yaad hai jab us movie ka trailer aya tha to Hansika Motwani ko dekh ke mujhe itni confusion hui ki ye itni badi kaise ho gayi, ek saal pehle tak to Shakalaka Boom Boom mein bachi hoti thi 😂😂
@@sugandhakohli haa. Good chance the movie was shot in 1999-2000, and its VFX and distribution took 3-4 years more, to get it released in 2004. This happens to a lot of movies, where they are either stopped mid-production or held in limbo till some lawsuits are cleared or money matters are resolved.
truly as an indian, i never knew this existed. but its no surprise because in the early 2000s indian cinema and tv shows had tried indian batman, superman, spiderman, starwars and what not. obviously these films hidden in the dust and are new to most teenagers but they are now great meme materials and we joyfully cherish them. p.s. i also think the new ''indian cinema'' should be explored more rather than old mistakes (i understand that is not your intention, but just a thought.)
he's really, really not trying to make fun of the movie. This is actually an in-depth sequel video, because he liked the movie so much in his Harry Potter knockoff episode. He rated it the number one knockoff, and then announced that he saw things online that suggested there was more to the story.
@@funguy170 Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I see people make fun of knockoff Indian movies (that I’ve never even heard of) more so, than actually review some gems in Indian cinema (other than film reviewers of course).
Well i was there growing up watching harry potter on pogo at the exact time this came out when i was a kid . I had already watched harry potter and this movie was a remake even as a kid I understood that and compared it to the original . Every year during Christmas holidays as a kid i watched all harry potter movies on pogo . Beautiful were those days
INDIA's First 3D Film was not this but a Malayalam Film called " MY DEAR KUTTICHATHAN" released in 1984. It was a BOX OFFICE HIT and redubbed and released in Theatres over many times.
When this movie came out it was no phenomena, Indians were very much invested in the original Harry Potter and this movie only looked like a cheap knockoff that would fail to preform at theatres and run on kid channels on Sundays.
1:29 The first indian 3D film was a Malayalam movie, My Dear Kuttichan (dubbed in hindi as Chotta Chetan) released in 1984. It was popular at a pan-india level and was rebooted several times.
I wonder if they could have talked with J K Rowling on making a canon India based school. Not too far off from Fantastic Beasts running with the world of Harry Potter but focused on American characters, but build it off the ideas of hinduism and things familiar to India. Instead it looks like a low budget knock off. And then it got merged with Willy Wonka? That... could be a real test of magic if they were smart and not just product placing.
Man, it wasn't until that Key&peele schetch of an underfunded Wizarding World Highschool in the slums that I discovered my want for the Harry Potter Series to branch out into different schools around the world. And now with this movie, I really do think the cultural aspect of the wizarding educational world is quite overlookded in its potential.
I really don't like any reviews on Indian movies from the west because they are full of stereotypes. But when I watched your video, it was great. No stereotypes, no jokes on Indian culture and focused only on the topic. Great Job!!!
But many of the things he stated are wrong like this wasn't our first 3D movie or this wasn't a big movie of Bollywood at that time. I don't even remember hearing about this movie at all unless it aired on TV.
1:31 The first Indian 3D movie was 'My dear kuttichathan'. It was a malayalam language movie which came out in 1984 and it was a huge hit. Its budget was around 60k dollars and it made over a million at the box office.
This reminds me of the type of movie that would bomb in theaters, but make its money back through cable. Kind of like how you could always find Catwoman on fx or amc.
I understood what you meant. Like some movies bomb at box-office but then gain the tag of cult classic and people wonder why did this movie even failed in the first place but believe me this movie wasn't like that. Yes, many children watched it when it aired on TV but it failed even there.
@@jadejamanaharsinh7988 well a funny thing i wanna share is that I had Harry Potter movie CDs but still I couldn't relate. Maybe because I was too little to know.
I never thought I’d feel sorry for filmmakers that stoop to obviously blatant product placemat to entice kids…good thing I still don’t feel sorry for anyone who’s taken such an action; only to get met with financial failure.
yes, the video solely focused on that unusual bollywood harry potter-like film. nice, thanks austin, i think this one could be considered a cult classic, maybe, probably not but not impossible.
I remember being a huge movie buff since early 2000s and the only movies which had any sort of hype that’s close to what’s being presented in this video were Main Hoon Na, Swades, Lakshya, Dhoom, Veer Zara, and the likes.. this video exaggerates a lot about the hype this movie had, at best it’s a tier-3 movie produced at that time
Did they at least pay royalties to the original makers of Harry Potter? I know that Bollywood is mega big on “re-creating” movies and not doing so, they’ve done this to many East Asian films and some American. Typically when America does this they buy the rights to re make an American version.
1. A common man 2. Delivery man 3. Fear 4. Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! 5. Leap year 6. Kill bill 7. Adam Sandler's Just go with it All of these are hollywood remake/inspired movie from bollywood movies, and no royalties were paid for any of them, even if talking about music for example Britinay spears "hit me baby one more time " The composition was copied from bollywood musical, the limited point being Hollywood/bollywood take inspiration from each other and make the contend palatable for their home audience, and paying any sort of royalties is an extreme rare thing rather than the norm
Most important thing was that the original Harry potter itself was a big phenomenon in India, and the dub was available in various Indian languages along with English, moreover, the highest rated kids channel at that time in India called POGO broadcasted the original Harry Potter & the teasers or ads started coming in minimum 6 months before it being aired on tv, which means most Indians had already seen Chamber of Secrets by then, so why would anyone pay attention to a substandard version, the original was available in dubbed in their own language at the comfort of their home.
Exactly. Og Harry Potter movies (Hindi dubbed) aired on Cartoon Network as well in (2002 or 2003). Hell even the channels which belonged to local cable operators also used to play Harry Potter movies quite frequently. I think I only saw this "Abra Ka Dabra" movie on some low rated/trp channels like "Filmy" channel or Sahara one.
It's hilarious to hear this western commentary from an Indian perspective. I remember when this film had come out. It was a B-grade movie and it came and went and is now remembered as a nostalgia piece at best. It was nothing like the big budget Indian Harry Potter prestige project that the commentator thinks it was.
don't know about " abra ka dabra " but tv shows like Hatim , Shaktiman, Shak lak boom boom, Sonpari , Junior G , Phir koi hai , Sampurna Ramayan made my childhood awesome.
India's first ever 3d movie was made way back in the end of 80s. It was a Malayalam fantasy titled My Dear Kuttichathan (Dubbed as Chota Chetan in Hindi). It was released again in end of 90s with added footage and camoes woven into the story.
It doesn’t say “$25 billion in 1997” but instead “$25 billion *as of* 1997”. Meaning HP as a franchise has made $25 billion since it’s initial release in 1997.
@@victorlolxd7347 It's essentially a kids' movie. A group of kids frees a genie-like character and it's their adventure against the people who want to use the genie's powers for evil. They re-released it multiple times over the decades with newly shot footage "updating" the cast and characters.
As an Indian I am glad that you mentioned this movie... As a child I was looking forward for the sequel mentioned at the ending... And the Parle G and other brand ads were funny and forced.. lol Movie for fun for its time
Saw a scene of this on cartoon network and it was a total cringe fest 😂😂 with poor plot, charecter development. It was such an obvious and poor ripoff...maybe that was its downfall. Half the time you'd just feel disappointed because you are unconsciously comparing it to the harry potter movie
This is my first video and I have no idea what your channel is about but Man crazy props for sitting that abomination. I as an Indian I never even heard about that calamity and I became a Harry Potter fan in 2001 itself after the first movie.
Like and share. Y’all know what it is.
First reply maybe
@@no_george most probably
Can you do Koumei Satou?
Yeah we do
Thank you for doing a video on an Indian movie
“He somehow found both of the golden tickets…”
He’s a wizard Harry.
😂😂😂
When you overdose on luck potion
@@AL-jg4pr When you use the Skyrim Clairvoyance spell.
"Somehow, he found them both"
A what
Fun Fact: The lead boy (Indian Harry Potter) aka Athit Naik went on to act in another big movie Kal Ho Na Ho and there is a small reference (I don't know if intentional or not) to his Abra ka Dabra past. In one scene, his on-screen grandmother calls him "Handsome" and says "He looks just like Hari Putter" and is then corrected by someone else as to the correct name "Harry Potter".
omg now that you say that, i do remember him from kal ho na ho!
OMG yessss! I knew I'd seen that kid somewhere!
Obviously that's fucking intentional.
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts true, and it's fucking hilarious
I remember that!! It was so funny lol
Some corrections:
1.The movie did not have any big names let alone the biggest
2. It was more of a B-grade movie
3. 1 million wasn't a huge amount for a Bollywood movie ever back then
4. It wasn't India's first 3D movie
Knowing this, it kind of annoys me the presentation is making it seem like this huge huge stuff, when it wasn’t. 😂
It reminds me of the time BBC called Rishi Kapoor a C-class bollywood actor.
Daniel Redclif wasn’t a star either
@@lmss3309 Daniel maynot be , but the other adult actors were extremely popular award winning well established actors.
Dude mcgonagall was literally a DAME
@@imacarguy4065 BBC is a joke.
I've never seen any person explaining a random Indian B grade movie more passionately than you 😂😂
and he makes it seems like it was the talk of the town to show how low Indian movies were/are.
B grade is a little to high, its damn F Grade
No Pain no Gain
@IGN Ashi7 Plays
He's a delusional CZcamsr
I unsubscribed.
@@cringekiller348 How? Because he talked about a bad Indian movie being bad? Just because he's a foreigner doesn't mean all his points are invalid cause he's somehow'making fun of India'apparently according to you even though he in no way made the movie out to a bigger fiasco than the already huge one it was
I still remember a funny thing about this movie. Because this movie is marketed as 3d, they distribute 3d glasses in cinemas even for it's 2d version and I watched the 2d version of this movie with 3d glasses in my local cinema when I was a kid
😂seriously,
Arey chuna laga diya
Lawls
Its, without the apostrophe.
“This movie is awfully red & blue.”
The fact that "Wait For Part Two..." is on comic sans will never not be funny to me
Still waiting to this day.
@@austinmcconnell bro I’m so excited the cgi was so amazing
@@austinmcconnell you should make part 2
@@ThomasSchannel where's he gonna find a bunch of Indian kids?
I mean, if he's serious about it, I can make some calls. I know a guy who may cut a deal.
@@kabukiman2153 lmao , I was meaning with all CGI.
Correction : India's first 3D movie is 'My Dear Kuttichatan' made in 1984.
It is a story about friendship between 3 children and a Kuttichatan ( a magical spirit)
and their fight aganist Evil dark magican who wants to capture this spirit for his purpose.
And it wasn't bollywood movie . It was a mollywood movie aka malayalam movie .
@@KurianKeralafromIndia that's why they said "My dear Kuttichathan" cuz in Bollywood it was dubbed as "Chota Chetan"
Many people said this but btw: The real first 3d movie was made not in bollywood but in a smaller indian film industry known as 'mollywood'. It's not really small rather its pretty popular among south indian film fans (a very growing fandom) but it is rather unknown to foreigners (anything not bollywood basically). Its name is "My dear kuttychatan" btw.
The first actually bollywood 3d film is "chota chetan" which ironically is a remake of the aforementioned movie
@@usernamesareuseless262 It's the same movie (its dubbed version)
@@Fidah i heard that it is a remake, i see some very diffrent actors though. but i guess it is a dub.
@@usernamesareuseless262 yeah, they remastered it and a few extra scenes were added during its re-release in the 90s for the dubbed hindi and tamil versions.
@@Fidah I see.
Remember watching this as a kid. A trippy experience for sure
When I Watched it, It was Cringy even for a 12 Year Old. Beacuse I was a Harry Potter fan
@@hech-kay5060 ikr! this was released after Prisoner of Azkaban, so I think everyone knew about actual HP and thought this was very cringe lol. The idea of an Indian Hogwarts is undeniably cool though
@@hech-kay5060 bruh,same for me
@@hech-kay5060 no dough indian kids were on harry potter hype train as well after the first movie.
Tbh dude i find it most irritating thing as a kid even though i haven't watched harry Potter
I don't know what wrong was with u
Abracadabra was not indias 1st 3d movie, indias 1st 3d movie was a mollywood movie called "my dear kuttychaathan" which was the biggest hit in India during that time and was dubbed re edited and released to multiple languages across different years with updated scenes and effects to suite different film industries in India. That movie deserves a video essay of it's own
In hindi it is known by name chota chetan if I am not wrong.......
So you guys obviously seem to be part of the culture, so I have a question. The only thing I know about Bollywood is the elaborate and choreographed dance numbers. Are they really that big over there? Do you enjoy them?
@@Dakooties well glad you asked. Generally, Bollywood refers to movies released in Hindi. But India has many other film industries as well. Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and so on are different languages and have their own regional movie industries. Most of them have movies that shatter stereotypes of Indian cinema. Totally recommend watching them.
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw 'ancient'?? 'united'?? tf are you talking about?
@@jc-px8ox I think, pardon me if I say this wrong, he wanted you to elaborate on the point of "dance numbers" as part of Indian movie industries culture more.
While also knowing that Bollywood have many branches of sub-regional culture may be interesting like your answer, rather than listing them off (since general-international people probably don't familiar with those regional/industries name), try to be more clear on which one you like or recommend or why it differentiate from the other.
Flying Thanos Head is freaking terrifying
Well Thor did chopped Thanos head😂😂😂 maybe it's that, infinity stones can have all sort of effects since those are hight in gamma radiation
@@Jitendra24k that’s probably true XD 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
My sister used to watch this and even enjoy it. Then growing sick of it, I sat her down and we together watched the real Harry Potter movies. She is now a hard-core Potter head, even read the books.
I always thought that the abra kadabra movie was just a crazy fever dream i had and find out its and actual movie through you was eye opening
Ikr it's like shoved in the back of my mind 🤣
Also... Just asking do you know of a movie about a father son magicians where the son accidentally get teleportated to New York. ?
It's for research purpose 👀
@@phineasfacingfront7806 No but if you find out please share it sounds interesting
Bruh same, I legit thought it was a random dream I had when I was a kid 😃
@@phineasfacingfront7806 Doom 3?(Not the video game,but Bollywood movie that is actually quite entertaining)
@@skyking4557 no, it was a father and son not twins 😭😭
It was very weird, 💀
When a movie is too big to fail, it'll either change everything, or hit the ground hard enough to leave a canyon
This wasn't a big movie, it was a B-movie at best
"My Dear Kuttichathan" a malayalam movie coming from relatively small industry from south india (Kerala) made the 1st 3d movie of India in 1984.
Malayalam movies often does not the get the spot light needs to get at the scale which they are pumping out one after another great movies,the story actors and direction is all well oiled machine in mollywood (malayalam industry) Taking the words of Bong Joon-ho "Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles" Malayalam movies are going to make you wonder.
It was a great movie for that time.
Actually, even now, I remember being heart-broken at the end of the movie.
Yeah .
First Bollywood 3D movie was shiva ka insaaf (1985)
First 3D film came out from india was my dear kuttichathan (1984)
1:25 "india's first ever 3d movie" nope there was a movie called "My Dear Kuttichathan" which was a south indian film made in 1984 almost 20 years before this movie.
and that was a major hit.
Abra Ka Dabra is probably not Bollywood’s first 3D movie. But it is the most infamous 3d Bollywood movie of the 2000s.
Yes! In hindi it was called Chhota Chetan. Then it was rebooted with Urmila Matondkar and that was weird.
I loved the original and it was the very first 3D movie of our country.
@@SlapstickGenius23 no it isn't
@@thesocialmisfit oops, my mistake. It isn’t Bollywood’s first 3d movie at all.
But one thing that rings true even today is that it surely is one Bollywood’s most infamous 3d flops, mostly due to poor writing and huge amounts of bad technological decisions.
Bootleg harry potter, Flying Thanos heads, banger dance sequence
.... this is great
Lol
Flying thanos head means proof of time travel. Lol
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after thor cut his head the head grows a pair of wings
I remember Abra ka Dabra. I was 8 years old and while the craze for Harry Potter was huge, like many others, I didn't have the opportunity to watch them. Getting a DVD to watch it was difficult and more so to get time in an Indian Household to keep aside 3 hours to watch it. There was no way, we would go watch a children's movie and that too in English. I still remember watching the first full harry Potter movie in Azkaban. So a Indian movie was a god send, as I can force my parents to watch this. But the movie was a dud, nothing appealing to kids........ Even I at that age was not sure of what to enjoy in it. Except for Carpet riding than Broom riding.
I watched my first Harry Potter movie in Azkaban too but the Dementors got very offended and I had to go back to my cell.
@@smvnt3803 😂
Funnily, I get from this movie(from the snippets presented here) the vibe of the first two instalments of 80's Polish "Mr. Kleks" series(based on the books by Jan Brzechwa, written between WWII and early 60s). It's funny because the first instalment in the series, "Mr.Kleks's Academy" was first translated into English by Rowling, plus Helena Brzechwa(daughter of the author) accused Rowling of plagiarising it in "Harry Potter", though she never sued. The case wouldn't have been solid to begin with, as the only undeniable similarity is that mr. Kleks looks like Dumbledore, runs a boarding school, and is a wizard(kinda; what he does is based on fantasticalised Oriental philosophy).
6:27 Brother you are extremely streching it with the Biggest Bollywood movie or Biggest Bollywood actors argument.
It was not the biggest Bollywood movie neither did it have the biggest Bollywood names.
It's was a pretty B grade movie casting mostly well known supporting actors in Bollywood, NO BIG NAMES.
These kind of Hyperbolic statements create extreme misconceptions about India and Indians in foreign minds.
I was very young when this movie came out(the target demographic) and even I knew it was a straight to TV movie 😂
I kinda wish Austin consulted someone who is intimately familiar with Bollywood like Patrick H. Willems did. (Though in that case it was Tollywood)
Thanks for saying this. Sometimes, narrators use hyperbole to make their point clearer, but in turn paints a false image of the whole thing. This was never going to be the "greatest movie of India" as Austin says.
They weren't the biggest names in Bollywood but there were several well know veterans of Bollywood like Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever, Razak Khan and Satish Kaushik. It wasn't a B-grade movie, more like an A-. The movie probably didn't have a big enough budget for a Hritik, Sharukh or some big star's cameo.
Trust me, him making these statements wont affect how people look at India, Most people in the US already hate India for being scammers
@@LetsPlayAceCraft yeah, the common American conception is India is a place full of scammers who poop in the streets next to their beggar children and chase after any woman who dares to go outside to r@pe and kill her. If they already think so lowly the fact that they have any movie scene of their own at all would be impressive. Like their bar is pretty low with how terrible they think the country is
Honestly, the idea of India having an answer to Hogwarts is by far the most interesting thing about this to me. I'm so used to magical schools being Europe-inspired that variations like that are really cool to see. The exterior design of the school is great and I love touches like the brooms being replaced by magic carpets. Honestly, I think I would be interested in a book series exploring a similar setting.
The magic carpet football is honestly enough of a reason for me to want to watch this movie xD
there might be one in the potterverse! jk rowling added hella magic schools
@@eb.3764 yeah, it seems the only schools around are Hogwarts, Durmstrang, Beauxbatons and St Clotho's inner city Public school
@@eb.3764 yeah, it's strange that India wasn't mentioned as having one of the big wizarding school. It makes sense since it's such a big country... like why add Mahotokoro, when you could have gone with India? No hate on Japan though I'm sure Mahotokoro is cool too.
It was a bullshit movie dude with nothing redeeming to it
1:29 Correction. India's first 3D movie was 'My dear Kuttichatthan' released in 1984. It was a Malayalam (Language of the South Indian state of Kerala) movie. It was way ahead of its time and had the Highlight box office collection for a long time. It is considered as one of the best movies from India (the later adaptations and dubbed versions were not that good though).
And it's also about magic and children.
I remember going to the theaters to watch this when it first came out, it was so bad that I still remember it to this day
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I'd like to correct that, this is at best a mediocre project for Bollywood of that particular time, the cast is mostly filled with b or c list actors and there are no MAJOR names attached to it. And I'd say that it was highly unlikely that this movie would succeed with decent numbers. Even to this day Bollywood doesn't have much in it's portfolio of the fantasy genre. In the past 2 decades Indians have grown really fond of major Hollywood franchises and they do well on the box office. On the other hand Bollywood is struggling after covid to even earn the costs of movies due to many reasons, but one major reason is definitely the lack experimentation in different genres.
just like bhramastra flopped hard lol
@@anustubhmishra bharmastra flop 😂
Are u kinda serious?
Ott and music labels right occur dude its 2022
I heard that brahmastra is a cringe movie
@@Agnosticcc-x3m Well yes, but no. It was the dialogues and the romance which was cringy, but the vfx was top notch. And the story has great potential, but the execution was subpar at best.
@@ko-ZHI12345 u know better what its south collection dude😂
And brahmastra budget isn't finalize yet
I would've liked to know more about the talent behind the movie after it flopped in the end of the video. Where did they go afterwards? Did they have a successful career? Feels like the video needed a couple more minutes.
Only one of the two main girls became a relatively big name in regional Indian movies but I think she too had to go through a MMS leak Scandal once she grew up, other kid actors never became big.
The older actors cast in this movie were already well known supporting actors in actual Indian movies, so they remained so
Most of the supporting cast were big names in themselves. For example, the Groundskeeper character Austin speaks of in the movie is played by Anupam Kher, he currently stars in multiple big budget (way way bigger than Abra ka Daabra's budget) and some Hollywood movies and shows too like New Amsterdam. The main girl lead is Hansika Motwani and she went on to become one of the biggest actors in South Indian cinema and has acted in about 100 or so movies by now. The main boy lead gave up acting and went on to become a Director of Photography after getting trained in LA.
@@sugandhakohli Wait THAT Hansika is THIS Hansika? Bruh O.O
I had no idea.
@@ishanbajpai6940 Technically, every Indian film industries including Hindi can be considered as regional
@@apogeelord7013 I didn't mean regional as a derogatory term, if the movies release only in a particular region than they would be regional.
Most Hindi movies are released all over India.
Like Bhojpuri movies would be considered only regional as you won't find them out of their core region.
Not all but many Telugu, Kannada movies only release mostly or near the state.
It has started to Change a LOT but Hansika Motwani was doing good when it was confined to a region, so I mentioned regional films.
I hope my explanation wa satisfactory 👍🏻
Those were the days 😂😂. "Camlin" was promoted a lot, they went school to school with freebies and art compitition.
Camlin = Geometry
This was the first movie I saw in theatre. Thanks for bringing back memories !
Mike Newell: The last three Harry Potter were like Bollywood films.
Actual Bollywood Harry Potter: 👁👄👁
Did Mike Newell seriously say that?
A.) Doesn't make sense
B.) Mike Newell made the worst Harry Potter film so I'm not sure why he's criticizing anyone
That movie for kids under age of 13 super good you. Know when i was kid i enjoyed it so much ! It's Bollywood had not much money to commercialization of movies that time ++ Asians parents'🤥 always try to find logic and always decide what there kids must watch ! They always prefer 😑😐 mature content for there kids at that time 🤥! Now a days thing's changing tho since now new generation becoming parents haha who knows the imagination value that movie i watched and yeah it's a good blend of bollywood and Hollywood haha culture old Indian mythology mixed over-all story was great there visual also great as per the budget and that time technology !
@Parizal badass if you liked the film, you'll like the book a hundred times more.
@@svanimation8969 Please shut up.
kid : mom can we watch harry Potter ?
mom : we have Harry Potter at home
also Harry Potter at home :
its available on youtube for free
Kudos to you for sitting through this monstrosity lol. It wouldn't need an experience producer to have a glance at this and predict that it's going to bomb or not
Kids were only taken in movie coz of their fair skin. That’s the issue with Bollywood. Their view is too Eurocentric. They stereotypically cast minorities from Northern india and mixed ppl as actors.
I want Jo Rowling to acknowledge this school on the Wizarding World universe and that the children in South Asia go there to learn magic.
There is an Indian Ministry of Magic tho
Fun fact: The music director of this film (guy in 30's) made his own movie, after 3-4 years, starred in it, and cast one of the child actors as his co-lead. (She was like 17 ish back then).
So reunion vibes....
Movie name?
@@Rohit-ne2el Aap ka Suroor: The real luv story. (Yeah, it has 'love' spelled as 'luv')
@@Rohit-ne2el are bhai, himesh Reshammiya hai woh, and woh bacchi Hanshika Motwani hai.
@@movieidiots5542 Mujhe aaj bhi yaad hai jab us movie ka trailer aya tha to Hansika Motwani ko dekh ke mujhe itni confusion hui ki ye itni badi kaise ho gayi, ek saal pehle tak to Shakalaka Boom Boom mein bachi hoti thi
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@@sugandhakohli haa.
Good chance the movie was shot in 1999-2000, and its VFX and distribution took 3-4 years more, to get it released in 2004.
This happens to a lot of movies, where they are either stopped mid-production or held in limbo till some lawsuits are cleared or money matters are resolved.
truly as an indian, i never knew this existed. but its no surprise because in the early 2000s indian cinema and tv shows had tried indian batman, superman, spiderman, starwars and what not. obviously these films hidden in the dust and are new to most teenagers but they are now great meme materials and we joyfully cherish them.
p.s. i also think the new ''indian cinema'' should be explored more rather than old mistakes (i understand that is not your intention, but just a thought.)
There’s a crapload of South Asian Tarzan themed movies, so much so that they spawn a genre of their own.
he's really, really not trying to make fun of the movie. This is actually an in-depth sequel video, because he liked the movie so much in his Harry Potter knockoff episode. He rated it the number one knockoff, and then announced that he saw things online that suggested there was more to the story.
@@funguy170 Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I see people make fun of knockoff Indian movies (that I’ve never even heard of) more so, than actually review some gems in Indian cinema (other than film reviewers of course).
Oh don’t forget Indian E.T (Koi… Mil Gaya)! But that’s just one knockoff I remember lol
@@tetrakis7755 Koi Mil Gaya spawned a franchise which also includes Krrish.
Well i was there growing up watching harry potter on pogo at the exact time this came out when i was a kid . I had already watched harry potter and this movie was a remake even as a kid I understood that and compared it to the original . Every year during Christmas holidays as a kid i watched all harry potter movies on pogo . Beautiful were those days
INDIA's First 3D Film was not this but a Malayalam Film called " MY DEAR KUTTICHATHAN" released in 1984. It was a BOX OFFICE HIT and redubbed and released in Theatres over many times.
When this movie came out it was no phenomena, Indians were very much invested in the original Harry Potter and this movie only looked like a cheap knockoff that would fail to preform at theatres and run on kid channels on Sundays.
As an Indian in the right demographic when this movie was released, this is the first time I'm hearing something like this even exists...
same here!
1:29 The first indian 3D film was a Malayalam movie, My Dear Kuttichan (dubbed in hindi as Chotta Chetan) released in 1984. It was popular at a pan-india level and was rebooted several times.
Basically, it was a feature length advertisement for a Biscuit and School Supply Company.
I wonder if they could have talked with J K Rowling on making a canon India based school. Not too far off from Fantastic Beasts running with the world of Harry Potter but focused on American characters, but build it off the ideas of hinduism and things familiar to India. Instead it looks like a low budget knock off. And then it got merged with Willy Wonka? That... could be a real test of magic if they were smart and not just product placing.
I think that would lead to a competition to her if she helped them (Not that she is threatened but the fact that both be compared ) .
Man, it wasn't until that Key&peele schetch of an underfunded Wizarding World Highschool in the slums that I discovered my want for the Harry Potter Series to branch out into different schools around the world. And now with this movie, I really do think the cultural aspect of the wizarding educational world is quite overlookded in its potential.
Same...I read a fanfic that had that same topic but I didn't finish it.
And it's still better than any school the terf queen could write. Seriously? Mahoutokoro? That's yanderedev levels of crap
I really don't like any reviews on Indian movies from the west because they are full of stereotypes. But when I watched your video, it was great. No stereotypes, no jokes on Indian culture and focused only on the topic. Great Job!!!
But many of the things he stated are wrong like this wasn't our first 3D movie or this wasn't a big movie of Bollywood at that time. I don't even remember hearing about this movie at all unless it aired on TV.
1:31 The first Indian 3D movie was 'My dear kuttichathan'. It was a malayalam language movie which came out in 1984 and it was a huge hit. Its budget was around 60k dollars and it made over a million at the box office.
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India's first 3D film was My Dear Kuttichathan(1984).
This reminds me of the type of movie that would bomb in theaters, but make its money back through cable. Kind of like how you could always find Catwoman on fx or amc.
I understood what you meant. Like some movies bomb at box-office but then gain the tag of cult classic and people wonder why did this movie even failed in the first place but believe me this movie wasn't like that. Yes, many children watched it when it aired on TV but it failed even there.
Omg I remember watching this movie on pogo and other cartoon channels, when I was 6 or 7. It was amazing. I must have watched it like 10 times on TV.
That's was cool at that time
I don't think Pogo or Cartoon Network even aired this movie once because those channels were already shown the og Harry Potter movies frequently.
@@LabyrinthS117Harry Potter was also one of the movies but this movie was also frequently aired on Sundays.
Bruh who tf are you ? You freakin serious?
Damm, I didn't knew it was inspired from Harry Potter 😀
At that time this movie became my favourite because I loved magical and sci-fi genre
yo same
How can you not tell.
its obvious duh
@@EsoteriaHealing back in time no one in India heard about Harry Potter till 2010-15's i think so yeah shouldn't be surprised
@@jadejamanaharsinh7988 well a funny thing i wanna share is that I had Harry Potter movie CDs but still I couldn't relate.
Maybe because I was too little to know.
I never thought I’d feel sorry for filmmakers that stoop to obviously blatant product placemat to entice kids…good thing I still don’t feel sorry for anyone who’s taken such an action; only to get met with financial failure.
yes, the video solely focused on that unusual bollywood harry potter-like film. nice, thanks austin, i think this one could be considered a cult classic, maybe, probably not but not impossible.
why did my brain take so long to process you said austin and not autism
As a South Indian I’ve never even heard of this film. I was growing up around 2003 in college.
I would say that at least for me this is a movie so bad, that it's good.
I can also appreciate how all the actors took their characters seriously.
This video came out way faster than I thought it would. Austin is on a content output roll!
I remember being a huge movie buff since early 2000s and the only movies which had any sort of hype that’s close to what’s being presented in this video were Main Hoon Na, Swades, Lakshya, Dhoom, Veer Zara, and the likes.. this video exaggerates a lot about the hype this movie had, at best it’s a tier-3 movie produced at that time
Harry Potter and the spicy curry
Ah better than Harry potter and the spice less bland shit yall eat day in and day out
Even better than Harry potter and the racist white man who murdered orients for the spices you are joking about
I will recommend you to watch Kanan and Biswa's review of this movie. Trust me Austin, you'll love it.
"unimpressed sardar kid"
@@vishesh-434 i know right 🤣 lessons from unimpressed sardar child
I love you for making this video. I actually went to theatre to watch this as it was in 3D. My eyes still hurts.
Did they at least pay royalties to the original makers of Harry Potter? I know that Bollywood is mega big on “re-creating” movies and not doing so, they’ve done this to many East Asian films and some American. Typically when America does this they buy the rights to re make an American version.
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All of these are hollywood remake/inspired movie from bollywood movies, and no royalties were paid for any of them, even if talking about music for example Britinay spears "hit me baby one more time " The composition was copied from bollywood musical, the limited point being Hollywood/bollywood take inspiration from each other and make the contend palatable for their home audience, and paying any sort of royalties is an extreme rare thing rather than the norm
Great video.
But the first Indian 3D movie in India was "my dear kuttichathan" released in 1984.
Lesson learned kids, if you need to put product placement to fund your movie, make it subliminal.
Every single shot, looks green-screened, even outside shots.
Most important thing was that the original Harry potter itself was a big phenomenon in India, and the dub was available in various Indian languages along with English, moreover, the highest rated kids channel at that time in India called POGO broadcasted the original Harry Potter & the teasers or ads started coming in minimum 6 months before it being aired on tv, which means most Indians had already seen Chamber of Secrets by then, so why would anyone pay attention to a substandard version, the original was available in dubbed in their own language at the comfort of their home.
Exactly. Og Harry Potter movies (Hindi dubbed) aired on Cartoon Network as well in (2002 or 2003). Hell even the channels which belonged to local cable operators also used to play Harry Potter movies quite frequently. I think I only saw this "Abra Ka Dabra" movie on some low rated/trp channels like "Filmy" channel or Sahara one.
India's first 3D movie was a super hit film My dear Kuttychathan...and it was a malayalam movie!
JK Nermal the screenwriter just made me picture a Garfield comic strip where Nermal writes a bestseller
Wait, has Harry Potter raked in $25 Billion “as of 1997” or “Since 1997”
Since 1997.
The first Indian OG 3D film is " My Dear Kuttichathan " by Jijjo in 1984
It's hilarious to hear this western commentary from an Indian perspective. I remember when this film had come out. It was a B-grade movie and it came and went and is now remembered as a nostalgia piece at best. It was nothing like the big budget Indian Harry Potter prestige project that the commentator thinks it was.
I’ve watched this like 3 times already, this video is so well made
Thanks! Feel free to check out the rest of my channel and let me know what you think
@@austinmcconnell basically already have, great channel! I’m super excited for Atlas, have a nice day!
@@austinmcconnell ur video is literally filled with misinformation
It's always a treat when Austin uploads. This just goes to prove that even if you have an equation to follow, success comes from soul.
Not sole, square space.
don't know about " abra ka dabra " but tv shows like Hatim , Shaktiman, Shak lak boom boom, Sonpari , Junior G , Phir koi hai , Sampurna Ramayan made my childhood awesome.
India's first ever 3d movie was made way back in the end of 80s. It was a Malayalam fantasy titled My Dear Kuttichathan (Dubbed as Chota Chetan in Hindi). It was released again in end of 90s with added footage and camoes woven into the story.
0:26 Suprising how much the franchise made in 1997, considering that is the year the first Harry Potter novel was released
Yep. That bit is wrong, the earnings, that is.
It doesn’t say “$25 billion in 1997” but instead “$25 billion *as of* 1997”. Meaning HP as a franchise has made $25 billion since it’s initial release in 1997.
@@agonys.embrace Oh
I love how you actually did the video about this movie XD
3:17 The girl in the right is the same girl who appeared in
'KOI MIL GAYA ' !😁
Hansika Motwani
India's first 3d movie was My Dear Kuttichathan (1984). It was a blockbuster.
It is really neat to learn about international cinema culture. More of this would be welcome!
My wife and I watched this movie last night based on your recommendation, and did not regret. We also did not understand the plot
3:10 is that flying Thanos 💀
3:27 hard asf 🔥🔥🥵🤣
Mah gaud. This was my childhood. I never even thought this was a knockoff to Harry potter
I can’t believe you actually made a full video on this movie
India's first 3D movie was My Dear Kuttichathan released in the 80s. It was made in Malayalam and dubbed into other languages and was a huge hit.
What was it About?
@@victorlolxd7347 It's essentially a kids' movie. A group of kids frees a genie-like character and it's their adventure against the people who want to use the genie's powers for evil. They re-released it multiple times over the decades with newly shot footage "updating" the cast and characters.
Bruh its not the 1st 3d of indian cinema.. the 1st is a malayalam movie named 'my dear kuttichathan'
I kinda like that you're not on the RRR hype train, but like it if you gave your thoughts on the movie
What's RRR?
@@amandap7733 RRR is a another Indian box office hit movie released in March 2022.
@@Trilok_world Does RRR stand for anything or is it like Sssssss and that's just it's name?
@@amandap7733 Rise Roar Revolt...
@@Trilok_world Cool, thanks
0:26 Why does it say "as of 1997"? Surely it didn't make that much as of the first year the first book came out.
Actually correction the first 3d film in india was actually My dear kuttichathan a Malayalam film directed by jijo ponnus
I think the girl that plays Indian Hermione is Hansika. She was also in the Bollywood film Koi Mill Gaya which is an Indian version of E. T.
the actress who played the headmistress was later involved in a betting scandal in the game of cricket
Who is she?
As an Indian I am glad that you mentioned this movie... As a child I was looking forward for the sequel mentioned at the ending...
And the Parle G and other brand ads were funny and forced.. lol
Movie for fun for its time
1:30 India's first ever 3-D movie was made way back in 1984. Its a malayalam film called "my dear kuttichathan"
I think Chota Chetan was the first 3D bollywood movie
Saw a scene of this on cartoon network and it was a total cringe fest 😂😂 with poor plot, charecter development. It was such an obvious and poor ripoff...maybe that was its downfall. Half the time you'd just feel disappointed because you are unconsciously comparing it to the harry potter movie
That "$25 BILLION AS OF 1997" earnings is impossible.
India had it's first 3D film released in 1984 Austin. To say that they were planning their first 3D film in the early 2000s is way off!
this is so cool. the movie never worked even when i was a child, but making such a video was a great recall to my childhood memories. thank you
This movie is constantly trolled in India.
I've not been for a video sequel for a while, McConnell delivers!
This still seems better than most movies Bollywood is coming out with nowadays.
This is my first video and I have no idea what your channel is about but Man crazy props for sitting that abomination. I as an Indian I never even heard about that calamity and I became a Harry Potter fan in 2001 itself after the first movie.