I cant believe Nandini talked me into this. The background is that she painted a very beautiful picture in my head on what i should expect in this movie. And i would have been very happy had the movie followed only those things that she told me.
So first things, watch it on a dvd and remove all its songs.You will save a good 20 mins of your life. But even after that,my reaction to various scenes varied from nice, interesting! to oh! crap and sometimes wtf?
The good:
Ratna Pathak on screen, she is such a talented actress and her inner tussle with her husband(Naseer bhai) shown in a full sized picture frame. That was very nicely done. And the second best part would be Paresh Rawal singing "Happy Birthday to me". Another interesting part would be the hero living without a cell phone. Had they emphasized it more, i would have been very careful in my rant below but still love the character development there.
The bad:
Cliche where the e come with an accent. Yes, that was the character introduction scene , the last scene, and every other frame of the movie. Her boyfriend in one scene is shown as a good guy, her brother arbitrarily takes him into his room and wow 5 mins later, he says that this guy is arrogant and in the next scene this guy becomes arrogant. Come on! there was no reason to show him as negative other than that he is not a hero. And on the other side, the hero's temp girlfriend, well she is all nice, they are happy and one day she invites him to a dinner, where he gets to see that her parents. Her parents are not doing well together, and she is trying to turn a blind eye towards it. Even with that temp girlfriend's horrible acting in this scene, i got the idea but based on this he decides to break up with her, based in this scene he realizes that he is in love with the actual heroine, I do not get it. I can interpret it totally differently.
The ugly:
Any frame having Sohail Khan or his shadow was ridiculous. That whole idea, dont get me started on this, reminds me of that Govinda-David dhawan era. The second line of actors after the protagonists, (yep his friends) act as such big items.
I can downgrade my I(A-Z)Q and see that those 3 reasons of becoming a rathore is good humorous fiction, but with that premise, i expect to see that the reality is treated with due respect.
What would have been a more interesting ending - that policeman shooting the hero in final scene (for which he had all reasons to btw) and he dying just after she gets the news that he fought for her. And then the song Jaane tu in Kishore Kuamr's voice playing in backgorund would be a good ending. He will be a martyr in the field of love as his father was in the field of slapping others.
[Disclosure: On Tuesday, i had watched a beautiful documentary on music - Music from the inside out, on wed - i watched The counterfeiters , two absolutely beautiful movies and then came JTYJN, so you see my bar to appreciate any movie was way high.]
2 comments:
My perspective on this? You can find it here.
All your comments are perfectly in place. But it's all a matter of what you're focussing on. My only comment relates to the alternate ending that you suggest. I don't understand why tragedy, death and gore would have made the movie that much more arty and worthy of appreciation ... more worthy of attention and respect.
hmmm.
well, the ending as suggested above will make the movie more interesting (as also written above) and not any arty or anything. However if such a thing had happened, (and the reason why i wrote that ending would be)
(a) It would be completely unexpected. It will be like what happened in Qayamat se qayamat tak. (QSQT). People were dumb-founded at the of QSQT because no one anticipated such an ending.
(b)An excellent opportunity to spoof the genre. No one has done it before. It requires brilliance to be the genre and spoof it at the same time. This movie had the opportunity to do it.
(c) I hated the current ending. Its completely impractical. With the current airport terror fear, such situation where a guy is running, you can not justify it. Shooting him down is the practical solution if he is not stopping. I do not find the current ending either romantic or humorous at all, it insults me, it insults the airport security etc.
And coming to your perspective, you are romanticizing the movie which is perfectly fine. We all have our own set of movies which are quite close. But my simple point being that what you saw in that movie, those fine points mentioned in your blog, others would not be able to catch those subtleties.
Post a Comment