May 02, 2015 09:13 PM
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Yash Chopra's latest and last film Jab Tak Hai Jaan, serves a missive halfway through a frothy romance between Samar(Shah Rukh Khan) and Meera(Katrina Kaif). Just as we're buying into their princess and pauper love story.
As a struggling immigrant in London, our hero Samar makes a living washing cars, waiting tables, and singing Punjabi folk songs on the street. Cupid strikes when he meets Meera, the daughter of a rich NRI businessman, but their romance is thwarted when she makes that fateful promise to Jesus. Samar returns home to India, heartbroken and angry, and joins the army. In ten years, he's grown into a bomb disposal expert who has successfully defused 98 explosives, and is dubbed "the man who cannot die".
An aspiring documentary filmmaker Akira(Anushka Sharma) is intrigued by his story and attaches herself to his unit and travels with them to shoot Samar at work. Predictably, the feisty Akira is drawn to Samar's brooding intensity, and pretty soon finds herself hopelessly in love. Despite its many script problems, it's a consistently watchable film that oozes with feeling and real emotion. A fitting swan song.
