Road

THE HITCHER (1986) goes Bollywood in this musical thriller, which is — at least for non-Indian viewers — a fascinating mix of the familiar and the exotic. At two-and-a-half hours, the film is substantially shorter than the average big-screen Hindi musical, and it delivers up a generous serving of violence and sexual suggestion — in a country where almost all films are suitable for the whole family, it earned an adults-only certificate — though it's still tame by American standards. The many car chases are handsomely staged and the film's wide-open desert landscapes, bisected by an empty ribbon of road, are iconic territory for b-movie buffs. True,...