Mohabbat gets seriously Tedious!!. Review on Mohabbatein

WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WHY BOLLYWOOD IS SO VERY GLUED TO THIS WORD! Mohabbat or Love or Pyar, it just keeps repeating in every movie.

Lets get this straight. MOHABBATEIN SURELY doesn?t meet any (or maybe every, for u guys) expectations that one must have had before seeing the film, especially after going thru the glowing and flashy PROMOS that, similar to MISSION KASHMIR, gave us a feeling we were in for another TITANIC of sorts. Titanic? Ha ha. This one is more comparable to the 1912 version!!!

These movies have become an example to show how redundant our love stories have become. There?s nothing new, just new wine in an old bottle.

Well, talking about the new wine, there?s Amitabh instead of the stereotypical villains who have been dominating the love stories of late. Shahrukh, similar to the saviour of yesteryear movies, drops in at just the RIGHT time and ties all the important knots (love? & forget studies). The lovers, also students of Gurukul, are all BOZOS of the first order, who get inspired by Shahrukh?s experience and set off to challenge BIG DADDY Amitabh and his own RIGID rules. Surely, inka Jadoo chal gaya!!! Cliché?s galore.

Meanwhile, Shahrukh also reveals that he was a former student of Gurukul, chucked out becos he loved the Principal?s daughter. Destined to take revenge, he learns Music and sets off to meet old Amitabh, asking for a job. Initially rejected, he finds a place in everyone?s heart. Of course he has to!! Nahin to picture nahin chalenga bhai!!

More cliché?s for you:

The 3 students, coming from GOD KNOWS WHERE, all stay in the same room (Cliché No.1), and also meet their love, rather dream girls, simultaneously and keep discussing about it in their room. Studies? Forget it yaar, yeh to LOVE STORY hai na!!! Unusual circumstances make them attracted to their dream girls and Shahrukh only adds fuel to the fire.

The girls, all stereotypically cast, make most of their roles (mixture of DDLJ, Prem Rog, and maybe some other B-grade potboiler), wearing wonderfully skimpy clothes, except Preeti who gets a role so well UNSUITABLE for her figure and face. The scenes range from the bearable to the boring, grating on our nerves occasionally.

Poor Amitabh, he gets a role so WONDERFULLY deft of emotions, that it starts looking unbelievable!!! How rigid can a father/principal get??!! His emotions have been kept under wraps thru? out the movie, and his face and stature looks more like Madam Tussauds wax model. Though he has acted SUPERBLY thru? out the movie, his role could have been developed and nurtured infinitely more. Every scene, we see him frowning, standing as if he was in a P.T drill where ?attention? was the only word the Teacher knew!!!

Shahrukh, on the other hand has been awarded with lot more expressions and opportunities than all the others, making his role seem lot more real and lively. He makes good use of it, and towers above all making it worthwhile during the 3 hour 35 minute SAGA. He is SUPERB in the emotional scenes and confrontations with Amitabh, and gives his role the required depth.

Aish is given nothing much to do, but look at her, its her WORST make up since Dhai Askshar Prem Ke. On one side u have Taal, where she looked absolutely Gorgeous and now this. Ughhh!!

The music is nothing to RAVE about and is definitely inferior to the earlier Yash Chopra classics like Silsila or Lamhe. BUT, let me add, they are infinitely better than the Bichoo?s or Kurukshetra?s we?ve been hearing of late. Many may say its inspired by DDLJ but it is surely HUMMABLE. Chalta hai!

The direction is Average at times, pondering at many spots and not as polished as expected. Chalta hai. Ditto the dialogues. Aditya Chopra can surely do much better than this!!

The length of 3 hours and 35 minutes is surely off-putting, BUT let me add, it would have been INFINITELY more watchable if SRK and Amitabh were given more oppurtunites and scenes.

The young group tries their best, but not quite enough in a movie like this. The effort they?ve shown on screen is OK at best. So, better luck next time!!

The technical values are almost impeccable. Sharmishta Roy does a GOOD job with the elaborate sets, Manmohan Singh?s cinematography is COMMENDABLE, etc?..

ALL IN ALL, MOHABBATEIN IS A NO-NO, WHICH MAY SURVIVE BECAUSE OF THE TECHNICAL VALUES AND ABLE ACTING BY SRK AND AMITABH.