Dec 12, 2008 07:19 PM
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[first impressions barely an hour after end credits rolled]
This is once more a film which has it all - lots of stuff to think about, lots of humour, lots of moments which make you smile, wink, grin, be sad, and every emotion in between.
I can't say if I prefer Suri or Raj. What I can say is that SRK was brilliant in bringing both characters alive, switching from one character to the other fluently, and giving both a distinctive body language. Anushka was okay. I was too busy to watch SRK to care much about her, but she stayed in character and did a good job, if not better. In my impression she was better in her debut than Deepika Padukone in hers.
Whoever wrote the dialogues of RNBDJ definitely should get an award, those were so good even I noticed on a first-time viewing with sometimes unreadable subtitles (white on white is not exactly a hit with me )
The songs - well, I liked them before, now I love them. The picturization adds so much to the songs. I had safely forgotten that this film has special appearances, so it was a pleasant surprise to see some known faces. I guess I know which pic will turn up in avas and sigs as soon as people can get hold of it.
All in all, a good funny film with lots of good thoughts and an important agenda. Great entertainment!
some comments about the cinema:
I saw this film in the Metropolis cinema in Hamburg, in the premiere show. The cinema, a singlescreen with around 440 seats, was completely sold out. The audience was predominantly Indian/Pakistani, with maybe a tenth of all people being German. I almost felt like an outsider! Reason for that is quite simple, advertisement was mostly in an Indian supermarket in the vicinity of the cinema. The audience seemed to like the show, especially SRKS antics drew scene applause again and again - plus loud cheering, of course. Anushka must look pretty for male eyes, she was greeted with a lot of whistling when she first appeared.
I pitied the consul general from the Indian embassy who spoke a few words prior to the film. Astonishingly, he only spoke broken German, and would probably have been easier to understand had he spoken completely in Englsih (instead of using a couple english terms in every second sentence). Why he wasn't even able to speak the name of the movie in one go without having an additional look in his notes is a mystery to me though.
edit: a rating... let's go with 9/10 for now, with a point deducted for the kind of humour I only enjoy in company, but dislike when I watch a film alone.
