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Few months back i along with my friends took an oath of not watching any of Yash raj’s ”jute bag” movies, but with an exception of Aditya Chopra’s “Rab ne … “. Simply because one of the most romantic moments like “Palattt…” and “Senorita …” of DDLJ was churned out by this man and still sounds fresh among teenagers. It was the time when women fraternity swooned for larger than life character “Raj”. This time its “Raj” again, the difference being he ends up spoiling the entire mood of the film.
It’s a story of an ordinary man Surinder Sahni(SRK) who works for Punjab power in Amritsar, is forcibly married to Tani(Anoushka) under adverse conditions. Surinder fails to develop a rapport with his wife due to her unacceptability, and they end up living under the same roof without much emotional connect. Surinder’s desire to give all happiness to his wife turns into despair when she decides to join a Dance competition for Best Jodi. Failing to spend time with her, he goes for a makeover with heavy assistance from spike Bobby khosla(Vinay Pathak).And here enters the over-the-top Punjabi version of “Raj” with his sign-off line “Hum hai rahi… Phir milenge…Chalte chalte”. Tani fails to recognize her own husband and ends up confessing love for Raj.
Now what happens or what shud happen next makes other “predictable” half of the story..
It isn’t an extraordinary story, which it could have been had the writer Aditya given more space for Surinder’s character and underplayed Raj. The screenplay falters as soon as the Raj enters, and multiple references to own films make things worse.
SRK as Surinder Sahni is one of the most relatable and adorable characters ever met recently. All the scenes right from the first one viz.. His reaction when Tani calls him in the midnight, only to realize that his thumb drive locked with laptop J. A scene where he leaves a note with a rose alongside and then hesitantly puts it back is just too endearing to watch.. He breaks into Haule haule mood(wonderfully choreographed ) after seeing an yellow Tiffin carrier ..And many more… How I wish SRK had more scenes to play as Mr.sahni..
To nullify the above, aditya slaps us with another bigger-than-vessel-spoon kind of character Raj. Until now we only saw the urban version of the character, but u literally flinch when u see the Punjabi version. Its over the top, avoidable and un-relatable. The scenes where he flirts by referring her as “Tani partner” and the one where he lights up the whole city with “I love you” are just tooo old to be digested and contrived.. How many times u havent seen such things??
The writer doesn’t even convince the makeover from Sahni to Raj, allowing screenplay to falter at every point.
If that was not enough, we have sequence like Dhoom 2 giving us an idea of physicality of the leading lady and “Paani poori” challenge sequence. Aaah!! Is this the same man who had velvet touch in his narration in DDLJ and DTPH?
Even though the movie belongs to SRK, anoushka makes a decent debut, her low-neck salwar-kameez :P and 50W smile only makes u smile.
All said and done, if u r huge fan of SRK, then go and watch it. U will only come out by saying “How ham the character Raj was!!”
I still take an oath not to watch any Yash raj movie.. Because such things will make me realize that I am getting older and older….
Ok!! at the end of it, even if u still go and watch it, don’t miss Kajol and End credits…
Few months back i along with my friends took an oath of not watching any of Yash raj’s ”jute bag” movies, but with an exception of Aditya Chopra’s “Rab ne … “. Simply because one of the most romantic moments like “Palattt…” and “Senorita …” of DDLJ was churned out by this man and still sounds fresh among teenagers. It was the time when women fraternity swooned for larger than life character “Raj”. This time its “Raj” again, the difference being he ends up spoiling the entire mood of the film.
It’s a story of an ordinary man Surinder Sahni(SRK) who works for Punjab power in Amritsar, is forcibly married to Tani(Anoushka) under adverse conditions. Surinder fails to develop a rapport with his wife due to her unacceptability, and they end up living under the same roof without much emotional connect. Surinder’s desire to give all happiness to his wife turns into despair when she decides to join a Dance competition for Best Jodi. Failing to spend time with her, he goes for a makeover with heavy assistance from spike Bobby khosla(Vinay Pathak).And here enters the over-the-top Punjabi version of “Raj” with his sign-off line “Hum hai rahi… Phir milenge…Chalte chalte”. Tani fails to recognize her own husband and ends up confessing love for Raj.
Now what happens or what shud happen next makes other “predictable” half of the story..
It isn’t an extraordinary story, which it could have been had the writer Aditya given more space for Surinder’s character and underplayed Raj. The screenplay falters as soon as the Raj enters, and multiple references to own films make things worse.
SRK as Surinder Sahni is one of the most relatable and adorable characters ever met recently. All the scenes right from the first one viz.. His reaction when Tani calls him in the midnight, only to realize that his thumb drive locked with laptop J. A scene where he leaves a note with a rose alongside and then hesitantly puts it back is just too endearing to watch.. He breaks into Haule haule mood(wonderfully choreographed ) after seeing an yellow Tiffin carrier ..And many more… How I wish SRK had more scenes to play as Mr.sahni..
To nullify the above, aditya slaps us with another bigger-than-vessel-spoon kind of character Raj. Until now we only saw the urban version of the character, but u literally flinch when u see the Punjabi version. Its over the top, avoidable and un-relatable. The scenes where he flirts by referring her as “Tani partner” and the one where he lights up the whole city with “I love you” are just tooo old to be digested and contrived.. How many times u havent seen such things??
The writer doesn’t even convince the makeover from Sahni to Raj, allowing screenplay to falter at every point.
If that was not enough, we have sequence like Dhoom 2 giving us an idea of physicality of the leading lady and “Paani poori” challenge sequence. Aaah!! Is this the same man who had velvet touch in his narration in DDLJ and DTPH?
Even though the movie belongs to SRK, anoushka makes a decent debut, her low-neck salwar-kameez :P and 50W smile only makes u smile.
All said and done, if u r huge fan of SRK, then go and watch it. U will only come out by saying “How ham the character Raj was!!”
I still take an oath not to watch any Yash raj movie.. Because such things will make me realize that I am getting older and older….
Ok!! at the end of it, even if u still go and watch it, don’t miss Kajol and End credits…
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