RAB NE BANA DE JODI
Rip-Van-Winkle Aditya Chopra (DDLJ, Mohabbatein) returns to the big screen after a long break with a strangely out of sync film that's neither here, there or anywhere in between. In Rab Ne Bana De Jodi-SRK plays the role of the oily-haired-scooter-wallah wimp-type Surinder uncle next door whose out-of-turn marriage to starry eyed debutant Anushka Sharma stirs up his lacklustre life like none of the products he endorses on TV ever can. When his new wife admits to an aborted love affair, SRK has to re-invent himself into his now done-to-death slick-spandex-chewing gum-cool-dude-avatar to really win her over. There-that's the film's story for you in one line.
Aditya Chopra, like the more regressive Sooraj Barjatya has his heart in the right place but fails miserably in critical plot-hinges. What kind of a post millenia girl would fail to recognize her husband if he swept his hair the other way, shaved off his mushtache and strutted about like Shaimak-Davar in technicolour designer clothes? The same tepid idea of a married woman's apparent predicament in cheating on her 'husband' has been done/dealt with before by the same SRK in Amol Palekar's Paheli. (There too, Rani Mukherjee was fooled by a mushtache~or rather by its absence.) And for the record, the same twenty minute plot was just as boring when it was set in the arid, pictuesque locales of rural Rajastahan.
In the first half hour of this film SRK bears a shorter mustache and is admittedly watchable in his unseen middle-class-Mungeri Lal act; but a reigning superstar like him who barely has one release a year now should really be choosing better scripts to peg his precious career on. Everyone appreciates the time he spends in commitment to 'causes' like the IPL-Kolkata team and the heart-felt endorsements for mardon waali Fairness creams-but does King Khan realise how the tight nexus between the new Moghuls(UTV-Vishesh Films)+ talented young directors(Anurag Basu-Bhandarkar)+small star/actors(Shiney Ahuja,Emraan Hashmi) may be tolling the bell that could end his charmed fifteen year reign?
Despite a honest-to-goodness parochial kind of sincerity in rendition of an inane idea ,an odd spark here & there in the inconsistent screenplay and above average music/ choreography- RNBDJ appears to be stuck in a rut and does little justice to its great expectations. After Chak De! SRK- should have really moved on.
Rip-Van-Winkle Aditya Chopra (DDLJ, Mohabbatein) returns to the big screen after a long break with a strangely out of sync film that's neither here, there or anywhere in between. In Rab Ne Bana De Jodi-SRK plays the role of the oily-haired-scooter-wallah wimp-type Surinder uncle next door whose out-of-turn marriage to starry eyed debutant Anushka Sharma stirs up his lacklustre life like none of the products he endorses on TV ever can. When his new wife admits to an aborted love affair, SRK has to re-invent himself into his now done-to-death slick-spandex-chewing gum-cool-dude-avatar to really win her over. There-that's the film's story for you in one line.
Aditya Chopra, like the more regressive Sooraj Barjatya has his heart in the right place but fails miserably in critical plot-hinges. What kind of a post millenia girl would fail to recognize her husband if he swept his hair the other way, shaved off his mushtache and strutted about like Shaimak-Davar in technicolour designer clothes? The same tepid idea of a married woman's apparent predicament in cheating on her 'husband' has been done/dealt with before by the same SRK in Amol Palekar's Paheli. (There too, Rani Mukherjee was fooled by a mushtache~or rather by its absence.) And for the record, the same twenty minute plot was just as boring when it was set in the arid, pictuesque locales of rural Rajastahan.
In the first half hour of this film SRK bears a shorter mustache and is admittedly watchable in his unseen middle-class-Mungeri Lal act; but a reigning superstar like him who barely has one release a year now should really be choosing better scripts to peg his precious career on. Everyone appreciates the time he spends in commitment to 'causes' like the IPL-Kolkata team and the heart-felt endorsements for mardon waali Fairness creams-but does King Khan realise how the tight nexus between the new Moghuls(UTV-Vishesh Films)+ talented young directors(Anurag Basu-Bhandarkar)+small star/actors(Shiney Ahuja,Emraan Hashmi) may be tolling the bell that could end his charmed fifteen year reign?
Despite a honest-to-goodness parochial kind of sincerity in rendition of an inane idea ,an odd spark here & there in the inconsistent screenplay and above average music/ choreography- RNBDJ appears to be stuck in a rut and does little justice to its great expectations. After Chak De! SRK- should have really moved on.
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