The World’s Fastest Indian airs tomorrow night

Feb 10, 2007 at 7:19 PM
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I very seldom catch TV network promos for upcoming programmes, but I did catch this one. The World’s Fastest Indian screens TV One, Sunday, 8.35 p.m. It would be an awful shame to miss this TV première of one of the best films to have come out of this country. I saw it on a little plane screen and it still had a powerful effect on me. It does have special effects (from Weta, whom else?) but it is refreshingly free of those over-the-top ones that have typified Hollywood. Based on a true story, Sir Anthony Hopkins gives an amazing performance, and even Mayor Tim Shadbolt wasn’t annoying.
Best of all, it is the Kiwi spirit on celluloid, from the determination to overcome the tall poppy syndrome, to be an individual, to beat the world, and to do so with charm, humility and tolerance of one’s fellow human beings. Not enough of these stories are told in New Zealand.

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Definitely worth a watch. We've got it on DVD and have seen it twice so far. Gotta love how Sir Anthony rolls his RRRs in Invergarrrrrgil. :)

I want to show Dad this after raving about it. I think he’d like this sort of film so we might have a boys’ night. I could not catch Tony out on his southern accent! He sounded authentic to me!

It will be good, apart from about an hour of adverts. There is another great tale of Kiwi motorsport brilliance in the early production stages: The life of Bruce Mclaren.

Of course. Plus, who was the motorcyclist who won heaps over in Europe? That would be another good one.

Sir Anthony is one of the few truly brilliant actors around today. I would watch anything he is in.

He is also humble. One of those folks who doesn’t realize he is a star. I don’t think his pay for this movie was that high, but he didn’t think that he was such a snob as to turn it down.

The World’s Fastest Indian airs tomorrow night

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