Jul 17, 2003 04:21 PM
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(Updated Jul 25, 2003 08:10 PM)
I checked out this category this morning , and seen that no one has ever attempted to tear this movie to pieces , and I thought duh...its upto you now davieboy. Yours for the asking, Here it comes. I was dragged to this movie by my college friends. We bunked college and there was nothing much I could do. End of the movie I started to feel good about my receding hairline, since the story was weaker than that.
And so it came to pass , that a stranger ShahRukh Khan runs into Deepa Sahi. If Deepa was not committing adultery in Maya Memsaab, she is singing on the streets of mumbai with SRK in Oh Darling!!! Yeh Hai India. So , I was left thinking was it that was it the screenplay or the director Ketan Mehta were left with no options for choosing appropriate names for the characters in this movie or was it his unique and a deliberate attempt for leaving the audience wondering their names would be. But for one relief they were some how named Hero and Miss India dynamically. So with these Dynamic names the dynamic music was scored to the dynamic situation.
so it was told , or attempted to convey as such , that our Hero has only six months to live according to some test results. I wondered if I really would miss him. so much for sympathy. We are led to convince that the protagonist has come to Bombay city ( why do you think he carried his bag) and lands there penniless. Agrees to sing and Dance for Miss India in exchange for food. We then have the president of India who is quite intrigued by the corrupt politicians. For one thing I am quite impressed with Anupam Kher, who plays the president. of course that being the only office which never gets into much controversy.
Then we have Don, a brilliant and yet predictable performance by Amrish Puri , which seemed no different than Mogambo and his likes. His son Prince, overacted by Javed J takes a particular liking for Miss. India. Had only she had been Miss Kashmir then I can understand that the particular liking is inevitable. Since The Don cannot see his sons desires unfulfilled he orders the arrest of Miss. India.
This was something that really made me happy, I have not reached the edge of my seat and I have managed to stay calm being at the edge of my patience. In a true sense I realised that I did Have patience. Had I known that someday I would be reviewing this, I would have joined the whistle party of my friends.
My friends being ardent SRK fans laughed away to glory at the way The Hero was fooling the police constables, who were told the consequence if Miss India committed suicide. Now I understand why the Police in India are so sluggish. If you ask me we should have Hero ( SRK) on the selection board of Mumbai police and see if he manages to fool them into releasing Miss. India from prison or be on the payrolls of the local Mafia. This will also ensure the honesty and authenticity of the police officials. If the prospective police official is not selected then all he could say is ''oh darling yeh hai india. Kuch bhi ho sakta hain''
The Don has lot of things to worry about apart from worrying about his son. Now lot of you may be picking up stones to throw at me, for I have committed a major crime of dragging my dad into watching this one. Why ?. The don actually got Miss. India kidnapped just because his son was un happy. All I asked my dad was an extra phone line in my room, a bike ( I already had a girlfriend to adorn the bike) and a CD player, which my dad has refused in such a manner that I branded him as the best dad in the whole world , for not giving me a long lecture reminding me of my priorities in life. It was obvious that deep under his breath he was cursing Ketan Mehta for this movie than penning any Bhashans for his only son.
The Don , has a plan. so he picks out Five of his men and has a surgery on them so they look like the President of India. After the shortlisting procedure i.e Selecting the one who closely matched his game plan and ''removing'' the others, He embarks upon the phase 2 of his plan. Kidnap the president and replace him with the genetically engineered body double.
Now comes the best part. India is being held for auction. The Don is dead and the Presidents impostor decides to make away by selling away India for some astronomical price. The Next Don aka Prince takes over as Don and flips a rupee coin and buys the entire Indian subcontinent. I wonder why no one in the auction asked if this comes with Kashmir or without Kashmir. Or did they assume that Kashmir is or isnt part of India.
And for Desserts ...
You must watch this movie if ...
you want this review to make sense to you.
you like laughing and dancing like SRK. I mean If you are SRK Fan.
If you wanna review this movie.
the next day after seeing this movie There was a newspaper Head Line on Deccan chronicle.
A boy, 19 was brutally beaten up by his friend, for taking him to ODYHI movie.
comments Most Welcome
Davieboy
PS. Due to a misclick I had recommended this movie. Thanks to Karan I have corrected this.
