Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kee.... Review on Salaam-E-Ishq

I was surprised when I called up the city multiplex and asked them to book our tickets for Salaam e Ishq – when she asked how many? I was under the impression that the movie is doing well and will be packed and we will gladly move on to “Black Friday”. But my happiness was short lived when we got it.

Preparations:I knew it from so many reviews that it’s a pathetic movie and is way too too long than it should be, we first moved on to Mc Donald’s and I ordered a good Aloo Tikki Burger with double cheese, Large Fries and a Regular coke, wifey had nuggets, a smaller burger and shared the fries with me, no coke(Dunno if she is on some kind of diet?). After filling my tummy, I made it a point to go to the loo too as dunno how long we need to sit in there and I hate to stand in a loo queue in theatres. For those who have not seen yet– I will say: try to take the corner seats and keep your legs as straight as you can or do take a good walk in the interval otherwise it would be too tuff for you to get up at the end and go home. Trust me on that.

I was not surprised to see Nikhil going idiot box way, all he has done is take inspiration from them and run 5 soaps parallely - which meet somehow at the end(look at the length of the movie), Next I am sure he is looking forward to making a good TV serial which will run for 8-10 years.

Finally we were in and the movie started. Now what shall I tell you about the movie? As it looks like a beaten to death subject on MS. So I will just tell you about my favorite of the six packs Nikhil has offered us.

My favoriteamongst them was no doubt Govinda and Stephanie story, Govinda did the job beyond my expectations, I was thinking that I will tell wifey that he shud retire now but now I think he shud do a couple more, he is good, although the way he used to call “Maydam” reminded me of Big B at times, but he was good, their chemistry was awesome, I never knew that he has expressive eyes too, their interactions are something which made me LOL and yeah they did made my eyes go wet at times(more than once), it was really so sweet. I am sure no one other than him could have “lived” that character so well. I was not so surprised and shocked by the Hindi speaking foreigner after watching “Sue in RDB”. It was quite good – last performance in the marriage was the best of the lot. Awesome couple.

Secondaccording to me was Akshay Khanna and his buddy Jaggi, who was like shooting with his handy cam all the time, even when the camera was off too(did u notice?),  that was funny indeed, with all the pranks and ideas thrown in, Best scene was the Delhi shots – I loved it so much(I miss Delhi), at times Akshay reminded me of Billy Madison guy, but he did his job very very well, I was looking forward to him all the time during those picture in picture stuff Nikhil created on big screen. Again the best part was the marriage scene and his incomplete dialog. Hilarious and something to remember about the movie.

ThirdI will say Anil Kapoor and Juhi – Anil at times reminded me of our own Adi bhai(Adi bhai don’t get me wrong please) – his daily local train travel, Laptop, 10 to 5 job and his beard too. The item number done by Anil was way too hilarious and I seriously couldn’t laugh sitting on my chair and was almost like rolling on the floor and could see that the first timers all were behaving right like me. The girl playing Anjali was hot no doubt, but I found Juhi to be way too sexy than that babe – personally, she had so less screen presence but she was good – no! she was great. Anil was the perfect choice for this role.

Fourth(Since I am left with no choice) was John and Vidya story, I was and am still shocked to see Vidya exposing that early in her career and that was way too much according to me, although it was good to know that she too has “Thunder Thighs”, Her dresses are going to make my pockets lighter with some couple of thousand bucks or more as wifey has taken notes of those black kurtas and accessories she was wearing, What John did throughout the movie was nothing more than open the shirt buttons, wear the times now id and run, run baby run, with tears flowing his dimpled cheeks all the time, this story has got nothing but the emotional value to make viewers go week in the hearts and sympathize with them and like them gradually that Indeed I couldn’t gel well with. Thanking god that I don’t get times now here in Hyderabad. But a little of camera work was good while he was at his dads home for those good 5 minutes. Rest was ok and just OK from my side.

Now this is something I would personally like to ask Nikhil– why O why man! you need to take inspiration from the life of Rakhi Sawant to make this Sallu and Priyanka thing. I was shocked to see the similarities between Rakhi Sawants life story as she claimed in Bigg Boss – suddenly she threw in Abhishek(the hunk) and started behaving just the way Priyanka was pretending and look at the way Abhishek and Salman are, wow. Good to see. I am sure if Nikhil would have taken Rakhi and Abhishek in real life – I wouldn’t have mind it at all, Salman and Priyanka’s story was stretched way too long and not required types, Priyanka looks fake to me in whatever she does. Salman was over smart at times and not ignorable, what happened to his voice? Until now I thought that people invited Strippers in Bachelors Party – was shocked to see a babe doing an item number that too wearing a proper ghagra choli and that too while wearing some sort of pajama inside – come on guys gimme a break! What is the world going to think of us Indians with that kind of a bachelor’s party?

Now last but not the least– If I would have been the editor – I would have totally ignored them. I am talking about Suhail and Isha thing(can’t call it a story). Utter Bulls*hit, did made me LOL but was done in a bad taste, what to do with those silly jokes, I think Salman must have recommended his bro as he is not getting any assignments so just pull him in for a couple of jokes and all.

Musicwas somewhere in between OK to Good, I was humming that bachelor party song while coming out of the theatre and can still whistle the title song, rest are already forgotten, they go quite ok with the movie though, better was the one by “Kailash Kher” song in parts.

By the way:Advertisements thrown in the movie? Did you guys noticed that Anil had a Samsung screen at office and a LG LCD at home, I thought they will buy some good foreign brands in UK, how about Ira diamond jewellery, Times Now throughout the movie, Ray Ban glasses, Don’t remember the handy cam’s brand juggi used, Apple Laptop, Karan Johar(I consider him a brand too) etc.

My Recommendation:This movie is something one must see to regret rather than not see at all. I will not mind going for a second round now as I know when to get up and get the pop corns and when to go for a walk. The best thing to watch out is that PIP(picture in picture) thing, that’s something good, I believe Nikhil has been doing that in almost all his movies. Its fun to see all of them together for couple of seconds.

Ratings and comments are more than welcome as always.*