Taxi Driver

This movie has an endearing Robert De Niro playing the lonely taxi driver who has been in the vietnam war. He has insomnia and cant sleep, he drives all round town and has a few fellow drivers for company, you connect with him right at the beginning of the movie and enjoy his innocence and humility, then he falls awkwardly in love with cybil shepherd who works in a political campaign office, you are worried in the embarrassing scene where you realise the poor guy doesnt even understand that he shouldnt take her to a porn flick on their date, she ignores all his pleading not to desert him, and then he meets the young teenage prostitute Jodie Foster and finds some purpose... anyways this movie is not to be read it has to be watched and felt.

Our Indian version has Sanjay Dutt driving a taxi because he cant sleep because of the trauma he suffered when he saw his sister jumping out of a window, the entire street sympathizes with him, and this traumatized character leads the singing and dancing in the street together with intricate steps, hell! there is even a scene showing him returning a 100 rupee note that a passenger hands him by mistake proving that he is honest too. Then one night he almost runs over Pooja Bhatt who has decided to play with some caged birds in the very middle of a dark deserted road, (silly really but then she is the directors daughter) he offers to take care of the birds as she will be going away soon. Well she is then sold by her uncle to the eunuch villain maharani Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Then while dropping off his best friend Deepak Tijori at the local red light area he spots her again and then decides he will spend all his savings to rescue her accompanied by his friend and with additional help from a hardcore pimp who was reluctant until our hero reminded him he has to answer to god someday and advises him to do do one good deed for the purpose i.e to help him rescue the damsel. Our Taxi driver then rescues her not before a few songs, some close shaves with the villains, but they get recaptured, and the villain maharani leaves him tied to a wooden cross on a secluded beach before taking the heroine away. He then re rescues her but not before breaking the cross with his feet, single handedly wiping out the other armed villains twice his size, and physically lifting and hurling the villain maharani into a fire, and then catching the heroine when she jumps off the top storey of the brothel. That is our Taxi driver for you.