Sunday, 13 July 2008

..yu hi nahi dil lubhataa koi!

Platonic love doesn't last, every love-story must end on an airport; no matter what, the hero will get to the love of his life before her flight takes off to another world are only a couple of movie clichés I detest. Needless to say, Bollywood movies with these clichés are not too likeable. But there is one that is.

Imran Khan aka Ranjhore ke rajkumar Jai Singh Rathore looks, acts & laughs like chahu-jaan, a lot! Genelia is the bubbly, loud Meow but Imran pretty much steals the Aditi-show. Its not the most imaginative storyline but there's just so much truth, honest college humour, Bombay & Imran Khan (sigh) in it. We call some movies ridiculous. This one was insane! Who makes a debutante ride a horse around South Bombay? Abbas Tyrewala does - and how! This one is filled with new faces & hilarious stereotypes we fail to notice. I like the attention given to fine details - like the choice of tea cups to match Mom Ratna Pathak's personality & like Mayank Shekhar rightly observed, her collection of books. Speaking of the integral soundtrack, Rehman rolls out a winner, yet again!

Besura singing, tragedy-struck melodramatic dialogues like "one Coke..on the rocks" make this flick a laugh riot and all the Bombay locales make Bombay all the more loveable! Its probably the first movie (I cannot think of any other) I have watched on the big-screen twice in the same week & enjoyed. Its almost like watching a friend's video documentary on the lives of, well, his friends! Easily, 'Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na' is one movie with an airport-scene climax that I loved dearly!

Cheers. Keedas. Peace.

PS: Can't wait for 'Rock On!' and must get back to studies. Hell, two back-to-back movie reviews. Where's the nerd brigade!?

3 comments:

Mudra said...

Dude... more than "One Coke... on the rocks" - the bartender says "Dost... sambhaal ke" - that totally cracked me up!! Lol...!

And yeah, awesome movie. Kickass humour.

Ani said...

You missed a exclamatory mark in Rock On!
It's for poseurs btw.

Prerna said...

@mudra: Hehe. Ya know, my friend in office today told me what the bartender says & it didn't strike me while watchin that scene (twice over) - mere plane ko take off hone ke liye do runway lagte hain! *chuckles*

@ani: Dude, I totally missed the exclamatory mark - NOT! I suggest you re-read =)