Sep 16, 2005 12:51 PM
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(Updated Sep 16, 2005 12:51 PM)
“The most difficult thing you can possibly face in a live in relationship is realizing that sometimes love is not enough.”
The above statement comes from a person, who has seen with his two beautiful looking eyes, a relationship transforming from a candyfloss romantic love story to a heart breaking, nerve wracking and tear-jerking break up.
Live in relationship work well in western countries, because the significance of the word “marriage” over there is very little. For them, marriage is nothing more than a legal hassle. Because for majority of youngsters, marriage never was and never will be a bond for them. A bond of …
What? Did someone say …James Bond?…..Now come on, you guys can never read something serious.. Or may be I cant write that way.
Lets forget it and let’s move on with “ Salaam Namaste”.
New age movie, urbane backdrop, Metro sexual hero…all right, but is this Hindi Cinema coming out of age…No Way!
Movie looks surrealistic in parts but realistic otherwise, considering prenuptial relationships are now very popular with youngsters these days. Primitive are the suhaag raat days where one would get to see his/her life partner only on the wedding night. Youngsters now have the audacity and choice of checking out (tongue in cheek) everything before they decide on something as serious as Marriage.
In Salaam Namaste, Abhishek Bacchan does his Father and SRK, by being the Sutradhar (narrator) of the life of a beautiful young urban couple viz. Nick (Saif Ali Khan) and Amber (Preity Zinta). The two shares a vast difference in alchemy, both professionally (Nick is confused Architect turned Chef and Amber a Radio Jockey cum Medical scholar) and otherwise (Amber is untidy but punctual and Nick is tidy dawdler).
And if you are wondering where “ Salaam Namaste” comes from, its merely name of the radio station where Amber works.
But Nick and Amber are not about differences; they share one thing in common and that is their incredulity in the institution of marriage and their changing mindsets.
That’s exactly what wreaks them into a live in relationship, where they initially decide to play Safe (different rooms), before Safe (read…Saif) actually decides to play Safe (with protection…of course).
Misfortune strikes their life as Amber discovers that their Safe (read… protection) was not so safe.
Fear of Chunnu & Munnu (read kids) drives the Bubbly couple to go for a kill (er..abortion…ya that’s the word), before Amber changes her mind this time and decides to play with safe ( read.. Saif). What follows thereafter is a typical and routine wrapping of any romantic comedy. The climax being a straight rip off from Nine Months, and where Abhishek too (and needlessly) joins the party.
Acting department is the only saving grace in otherwise a very ordinary (and people are calling it fresh!) storyline. All the actors have chipped in with above par performances. Arshad Warsi (as Nick’s buddy) and Javed Jaffery (as Nick’s and Amber’s nincompoop Landlord) are in for rave appreciation for their excellent comic timing. Javed Jaffery specially is awesome in interaction with his phirangi ( sorry!) wife (Sorry!….ya .that how she replies for absolutely any question thrown at her).
Preity as usual and Saif unusually are simply brilliant in justifying their roles. Preity has almost carried the weight of whole flick on their shoulders. And if you think that’s the only weight she has carried in the film…read this.
According to grapevine, Sydney games medallist and Indian power lifter Karnam Malleshwari has challenged Preity for a duel after watching her dancing performance with an outsized womb. (I mean you have to see the size…. good enough to carry a baby elephant.)
I have also been told though that the artificial oversized womb was specially prepared to fit the big fat Raveena Tandon who was supposed to play Amber, before Priety decided to step in her shoes…er..womb.
And now the gray part. Vishal Shekhar’s music barring the title song (where too the bikini clad girls makes an average song “look” good), is below average. It seems that the director Siddharth Anand didn’t want any song in the film in first place, as most of the songs are out of place and are speed breakers (correction… potholes) in the flow of events.
Editor of movie was seemingly on an Australian holiday as editing leaves a lot to be desired.
After watching Saif’s shirtless performance in the movie, I was wondering what this movie would look like if our Sallu bhaiyya were to play the lead…….Well it would be pretty much the same except the title, which might read… .”Salman Namaste”.
And if you are not too keen on receiving a call from Salman, do drop a comment please.
