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May 03, 2007 04:33 PM 3595 Views

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I wouldn’t say this in front of my family or friends – it would really spoil my “I hate sob-sob formula Hindi movies” image.  But if I have to give an honest review of this film, let me say it…. “I liked Namaste London”(hope my wife doesn’t read this!)


Frankly, I really don’t have any idea why I came out of the movie hall feeling good about this movie.  It has all the ingredients to normally make me want to throw up.  An Indian family in London trying hard to protect Indian culture – how many times have we heard this before?  Let me see… DDLJ, Pardes, etc., etc.  And now Amrish Puri is replaced by the relatively docile Rishi Kapoor as the ‘sticking to Indian roots’ father trying to tame his London bred girl.  But hey – you can’t bring up you daughter wearing minis and drinking vodka all her life and then expect her to suddenly turn into an Indian bahu in some remote village in Punjab.  The storyline is obvious.  Rishi Kapoor’s attempts at getting his daughter Jazz(Katrina) married to a village simpleton Arjun(Akshay Kumar) leads to a situation where she has no option but to marry him – but only through saat pheraas in India – which has no legal significance in London.  So, officially, they aren’t married.  Katrina continues dating her British boyfriend and proceeds with plans to marry him.  The rest is about how Arjun transforms Jazz’s fixation with London and shame at being an Indian into a realization about her identity as an Indian.  Nothing more than that really.


However, the characters are fairly likeable - if Akshay’s sometimes-funny-sometimes-serious character is fun to watch, it’s difficult to keep your eyes off Katrina – not only because she looks really pretty in this movie, but because she seems to have good screen presence.  A word about Katrina – strictly speaking, she isn’t really technically very good(there are times in the movie where I could not figure out whether she was genuinely acting funny, or was it just some poor acting skills at work).  However, the role suited her very well because of her genuine British accent and expression and stuff.


Music was poor except for the title track which was really well sung and was a good composition.  Otherwise everything else was Punjabi hip-hop kind of stuff – found the songs really boring and ill-placed.


A few scenes particularly caught my attention – one was the sequence when Katrina is meeting prospective Indian grooms.  The sequence was done snappily and was quite hilarious.  The other scene I liked was where Rishi Kapoor is sitting on the dinner table with his wife, Katrina and Akshay and starts laughing and gradually everyone on the table starts laughing – that looked like a difficult bit of acting to me.


The end of course was very predictable – the only suspense was whether the hero will chase the heroine to stop her from getting married or whether the heroine would leave the altar for the hero.  I won’t reveal the big secret! J


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