The meeting which became a HIT. Review on Jab We Met

After a long time I saw a movie which was really sweet. An extremely simple and believable story. That's the way life is sometimes.if you believe in serendipity. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor have both done justice to their roles. Though as an industrialist Shahid's character looks as if he is playacting wearing those biz suits. He looks too young. as if the suits are too big for him and hence awkward. Though ofcourse Shahid has come a long way from when he was a puny young man in music videos.

The story is thus: Aditya is the son of an industrialist. After his father's death he's at the helm of a sick industry. He's also lost his girl to another man and doesn't have any interest in living. One day he just up's and leaves everything. He finds himself at the station and boards a train. Here he meets Geet. She's a bubbly Sikh girl, who's going back to Bhatinda. She saves Aditya's life when he's contemplating suicide. At one station Aditya gets off and thinking that he might commit suicide Geet gets off the train to get him back and thus they both miss the train. This is when she tells him that he has to get her home to Bhatinda as she has missed the train due him. She's going home to elope with her boyfriend.

When they do finally get to Bhatinda, Aditya is accepted by her family. Geet still wants to elope and one day they elope. Aditya leaves her to go to her boy friend. He comes back to Mumbai and gets back to building his empire. After many months, he gets to know that Geet never went back to her family. So he sets out find Geet. He finds her living in a Hostel in Simla and working as a teacher. Her boy friend refused to marry her and she's lost her effervescence. Aditya has to reunite her with her family. He makes her call her boyfriend Anshuman and tells her to give him a piece of her mind. Due this Anshuman realises his mistake and wants to get back with her. The three of them come back to Bhatinda. It's here that Geet realises that her feelings have changed. She has gotten over her infatuation with Anshuman and has started loving Aditya.

The humour in this  movie is well written and the timing is good. No slapstick(thank God).  Especially the Hotel Decent scene where Kareena is mistaken to be a call girl. Also scene where she blasts her boyfriend Anshuman for leaving her. I liked Dara Singh's character as the grand old man of the family who thinks that he knows everything and predicts that Aditya and Geet would marry. A simple movie without unnecessary dramatics. The songs have become a rage as one can hear them on all the FM channels especially Mauja, Nagada baja and Ye ishq hai.  Though Mauja is a total item number which doesn't have anything to do with the story at all.

All in all an enjoyable movie. total paisa vasool.