Motörhead make a surprise appearance on the soundtrack of the Indian film Sister Midnight, set in Mumbai, alongside The Stooges and T.Rex.
The best thing about the disappointing new film Sister Midnight is its soundtrack. But one of the disappointments is that we don’t get to hear Iggy’s title song at all.
We do, however get two Stooges songs. Gimme Danger plays over the closing titles and Ann, one of the lesser-known numbers from their 1969 debut album, gives us a welcome jolt at an earlier point.
It’s a strange film: one of those that’s acclaimed by critics but leaves a lot of viewers bewildered. Or, as the first audience feedback I read says: “Absolute incoherent nonsense.”
Karan Kandahari’s movie, set in a picturesque Mumbai backstreet, looks beautiful, with its primary colours, symmetrical framing and highly mannered acting giving it a kind of “Wes Anderson goes to India” vibe.
It starts out as some sort of expressionist satire about arranged marriage before taking a surreal and supernatural turn that takes us by surprise.
It’s shot in short sharp takes interspersed with a black screen and intersperses Indian music with blasts of anachronistic rock tunes, ranging from T.Rex’s brilliant Mambo Sun to Marty Robbins’s evergreen El Paso and Motörhead’s eponymous headbanger.
All of which adds to the air of surreality surrounding what is one weird film.