Oct 30, 2007 04:33 PM
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(Updated Oct 30, 2007 04:34 PM)
Kareena and Shahid were really in love when this movie was shot and it shows om screen. JWM is a sweet little love story which is full of realities. It starts with a young businessman getting into hard times and losing his love . In frustration he gets on to a train.
A bubbly punjabi girl gets into the same train. She cannot stop talking a la Basanti in Sholay. She tries to help out the Shahid the business man as if she were an agony aunt while Shahid wants to get rid of her. So he gets down midway in the night at some station but Kareena finding him out of berth gets down from the train to get him back but instead finds herself out of the train. She gets angry on Shahid and he takes a taxi for her to Ratlam. In Ratlam station she enters into an argument with a shopkeeper and loses the train again . She and Shahid then go to a hotel for the night and they narrowly escape the police raid in the hotel. During these escapades they get to know each other. Shahid has lost in love wheras Kareena , the happy-go-lucky eternal optimist is in love and is going home to Bhatinda from where she will go to her lover at Manali, narry and settle. All this without her family's knowledge.
Shahid learns to forget his woes and be happy after he meets Kareena and slowly falls in love with her.
He reaches Bhatinda only to ne embroiled in another controversy. The parents of Kareena have called her childhood friend Manmeet to settle her marriage. In order to get rid of him she feigns love with Shahid. She also runs away from the house to Manali with Shahid to her love. Shahid leaves her at Manali and goes back to his business at Mumbai.In nine months with newfound enthusiasm he revives his business and launches new products . He does well all the while remembering Kareena for teaching him how to live life kingsize.
On seeing his face on TV the parents of Kareena come to Bombay to see their daughter thinking he has married her. Shahid asks for 10 days to get her to Bhatinda.He goes to Manali to find that her lover had betrayed her and refused to marry her. In search of Kareena , Shahid reaches Shimla where she stays in a working women's hostel . He sees her a changes person having lost her earlier cheerfulness . He teaches her all the earlier things she had taught him. He also asks her to call her lover abuse him, get rid of the pain and get on with life. She does that only to find that her lover realizes his fault and comes to marry her. The threesome go to Bhatinda . Ther the confusion starts that all the family members think Shahid to be her lover and pamper him. The confusion ends when Kareena realizes that Shahid is right for her and marries him.
Kareen is superb as Geet and so is Shahid. Both generate a chemistry which shows their real love for each other. Umfortunately the break up in real life betrays these feelings. Pritam is restrained and melodious. Its a good family fare with no frills. Imtiaz Ali shows maturity and fine comic sense in handling characters.
