Love . Review on Jab We Met

I saw Jab We Met completely unaware of the story and plot and was

hoping that the film makers roll out something fresh and interesting

since I was worried that there may be some typical bollywood cliched

stuff. But 30 mins into the movie and I was well engrossed and feeling

happy with some fresh, lively and engrossing stuff. What followed till

end was even better - very frothy and light fun filled movie with

amazing music. I really would like to thank the filmakers here to make

me feel good after watching a movie. In all, Jab We Met not only met my

expectations, it really exceeded. Go watch it for all those who havent

yet done.

Before

watching the movie, one thing I already liked about this movie was the

music given by Pritam. And the music seems even better while watching

the movie and I loved it altogether. Great work from Pritam and Imtiaz

Ali.

The movie is a story of 2 people whose lives

cross over in a train - A dejected from life rich heir business man

Aditya( played by Shahid) and a talkative, happy go lucky girl Geet(

Kareena). Both have contrasting characters and what follows is how the

happy carefree nature of Geet helps Aditya find the true meaning of

life and makes him realize how to live it and not leave it. At the same time Geet realises certain tough to accept realities of life and with Aditya’s help gets to understand to take it practical while going easy in life. So both characters compliment each other and make a difference in each others lives leading to a happy ending.

To

say this, it sounds a simple short story. But what makes the film so

good is the nice flowing nature of the film integrated with great humor

and great music all along. Not once does the film bore you or makes one

feel that any segment is stretched. This speaks volumes of the

director’s ability here. The humor is great and is natural but not

forced. The scene where Kareena is going on talking to Shahid in Train

and continues even in sleep is great, so is the scene where kareena

asks the TT - " bhai sahab aap convince ho gaye hain ki mein aur

boloon" . There are many such great comedy scenes which keep the film

very entertaining throughout.

About the performances, Kareena

delivers her best to date without doubt. She does it so well this time

that the role seems made for her. The scene where she jumps into the

car to catch the train and urges the driver to go fast is fantastically

done. I have never previously seen Kareena deliver such natural and

immaculate performance. But in this film she delivers. Shahid plays his

part of the composed character very well too and proves that he is now

well established in the industry. Tarun Arora as Anshuman does a great

job though his character has a small role. He does his best to play the

out of sorts loser in the end. Well done Tarun as he does justice to

his character.

One more person who deserves special mention from

the overall cast is the receptionist at hotel decent( Teddy Maurya).

In a 2 min role he proves his acting ability. The way he asks "aapko

room ghante ke hisab se chahiye", the facial expression, the voice

pitch, its perfect.

The film also gives good life

message and is a winner all around. The end though simple is so well

thought off(with the confusion in Geet’s household with Aditya and

Anshuman) that one cant stop to say that Imtiaz Ali is a talent

bollywood needs. To mention music again, Pritam delivers best yet

again. The songs Mauja and Yeh Ishq hai are great and are playing

everywhere but the song that really touched me is "Tumse se hi " sung

by Mohit Chauhan. All I can say is what a song! amazing.

This film makes one feel nice from inside and all should watch it. For those who havent yet seen this movie all I can say is that  "aap convince ho gaye hain ki mein Aur likhoon!