Dec 15, 2008 05:57 PM
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Many years back, a court case was filed by a woman named Honey Irani against Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra. The case was basically about the script of 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge' - Honey Irani had stated that she was the one that created that script and the Chopra's had taken it and not been given her due. Case went here and there while Aditya Chopra had pulled off a film which would be playing for 13 years and counting. Everyone believed that another Yash Chopra had entered the film industry and why not, afterall, DDLJ is a landmark movie of Indian cinema.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - now from it's title, I guess the whole premise can be worked out but no, Aditya Chopra shows us that we have to see God in our partner. I believe that a film is a mindset of a director and how he looks at particular scenario - his take on a ordinary couple is so lame that you can understand, fully, why he went through a divorce recently!
Cheesy dialogue's, women feet touching, pathetic scenes on the name of entertaining, badly shot songs, lead pair's absolute zilch chemistry and story being so ridiculous - everything I hate about Indian films is being showcased in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, this is nothing but a regressive film!
I mean I would probably jump from the top of the Big Ben, if my wife/girlfriend didn't recognise me with or without a moustache, gelled or oily hair and casual or formal wear. In this the girl is showcased as such a 'bimbette', only a guy who hates women and is a Homosexual will portray women as done with the role of 'Taani'. The sudden appearance of this dance competition in Amritsar and boom, the film will now transform into a dance competition and Suri will become Raj to see how good his wife is at dancing and by chance become her dancing partner - waah waah waah kamaal karr dittaa JI!
As for the word I just used - 'Ji' - it's a great word, even I use it in tongue-in-cheek comments but for crying out loud, Taani-ji, Yes-ji, morning-ji, partner-ji, biryani-ji. After a while it become's ridiculous that a couple actually comes out with talk such as this, even in a place like Amritsar
The pathetic scenes of Entertainment I was talking about is the Taani chasing a rival dancer in riding a bike in the most Stupidest fashion, Rakhi day when ALL dancing partners are celebrating it by putting on each other, the sumo wrestler and Suri's fight because if he wins he gets two tickets to Japan, the whole citys lights being cut and a nice pattern of lighting made to confess love - tell me honestly, is this Indian cinema going anywhere or is it taken movie making back to the eighties which is the biggest lull of this monster of a film industry?
In the end we have a very good dance segment where Taani realises that Suri is Raj and Raj is Suri and Shahrukh Khan is Shahrukh Khan and he was playing a double role in her starting years of her married life and the guy who she fell in love with is actually the same boring husband trying to light up Punjab.
So Taani-Ji is happy now as she can see God-Ji in Suri-Ji - of course you know the film ends off in a cheesy dialogue!
Suhaag-raat manao Ji, what shall I do? HUH!
Anushka Sharma, confident debut looks like a bimbette and acts as one, has a great body so please do a film with Emraan Hashmi :D, Vinay Pathak, being asked to wear clothes and props to give him a certain look that Aditya Chopra's sexuality needs, though I must say his scenes with Shahrukh Khan are very good.
Shahrukh Khan, well you expect a performance from him and that's what he has done quite well. It's not his best performance but certainly a good one. I mean his mannerisms of Raj, shouting out in a Punjabi accent 'Taani Partner' is hillarious. His facial expressions in that Biryani scene, his cry at the end, brilliant. I'm hoping for bigger and better films from him because sadly, this film is too small for him and quite rubbish to be honest. See its not too bad if Khan was doing three films a year and one turns out like this but when you have now decided to do one film a year and you are a superstar of this level, then atleast make a film where the story is not as Stupid as this, ke wife ko pata nahin ke Raj husband hai! CHAVAL!
Badly shot songs, that Phir Milenge NONSENSE song, Tujh Mein Rab was errrr, Haule haule was the best song in the album and even that has been shot in drabb fashion, Dance Pe Chance is ok though. The cinematography is the best thing about the film, whether its the small Amritsar road or the Golden Temple you know this is a yashraj film by just looking at it. NICE, VERY NICE!
Aditya Chopra - I'm not going to call him a rubbish director because that would be ridiculous but am not going to call him a great one either. I believe that he pulled off one of the biggest flukes of Indian cinema in 1995 because after that, in 2000, his film Mohabbatein happened to be a bad copy of 'Dead Poet Society' just added with six cartoons and a film that was saved by Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan and now in 2008 his 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' is saved by yashraj's favourite blue eyed boy.
The reason why I added the court case above is because of this reason - if Honey Irani files the case again and the judge is given three DVD's of Aditya Chopra's direction, she'll easily win ;)
