Thursday, July 10, 2008

My First Movie Review

Ok, Aamir Khan produces the movie, Rahman composes the music and the movie wins half the battle even before it hits the screens. Now enter, Imran Khan who almost looks like an angrez and makes the gals all over the country moon and swoon for him. And then there's perfect figure, perfect smile; Genelia, who every other guy wants to get naughty with!! And that is what Jaane tu ya jaane na is all about; one wonders whatever happened to the story!! For Heaven's sake give me a story, guys!! The director/writer offers a mere muddled construction of his imagination, and the poor viewer is left to discern his own conclusion, whether the movie was supposed to be a romantic one, a comic one, or a poor combination of both!!





The movie is doing good business courtesy its self-proclaimed "freshness ", but apart from that it looks as if it was made in a hurry, almost at gun-point!! The humor at most of the places looks forced, not the kind, that would induce a savage laugh but people still continued to laugh for reasons unknown to me!! Maybe i am the one who really has some problem, but i cant compel myself to laugh at an inferior humorist or wit!! The only places where i managed to laugh was when Naseer dictates the criteria, fulfilling which, a man of his family would be conferred with the status of a true mard!! Ratna Pathak Shah was superbly convincing in the role of Jai's ( Imran ) mother, but i was concentrating too much on Anuradha Patel, who plays Aditi's mother. Anybody who has seen Ijaazat and identified with the character of Maya, cant help but develop a massive all time crush on her.


Now, Jaane tu, is the story of a friendship which metamorphosizes into love. But, there's hardly a scene in the movie where the protagonists are actually found to be conversing. They seem to realise that they love each other, through interaction with other characters. One doesnt realise that he/she is in love with his/her friend all of a sudden. I waited through out the movie for Jai and Aditi to actually talk, instead Aditi ends up talking with her bro and Jai with Meghana.



A very thin line of demarcation exists between love and friendship, not complementing each other, but being relative to each other. Unfortunately the movie fails to explore this one, riveting its focus and attention to cater to the needs of the audience. The ending is hokey and way too irrational and illogical to even concieve. Imran is good but Genelia is found over acting in some of the scenes, Manjari fairs much better though.






But then, movies are meant to be watched and forgotten. All art at some point of time does divorce the logical, and its all a matter of individual tastes and preferences!!


Now Playing:: Tere bina zindagi se shikwa...............Aandhi

5 comments:

Debasish Patra said...

Well, i was sure to expect a 'diffrent' review from U.

And u hav lived up to it :)

I havnt seen it yet..the movie was made at ""almost at gun-point!! ""

I havta watch it den !
:)

Anupam said...

hey, movies are meant to be enjoyed n plz dnt b critical abt genelia.

Deepika said...

* debasish

ya do watch it coz i'm sure u wud luv it n dnt forget 2 tell me.


* anupam

ohhhhh, genelia fan i guess!!
she was awesome, grt, n definitely a pleasure to watch!! Happy??

Prakash said...

The best thing about this quote of yours is that its devoid of high sounding words ...

Your views sound refreshingly different but I think they manifest themselves in the form of words which are hard to comprehend without a dictionary

I admit my vocab is pathetic .. but still ...

Deepika said...

@ prakash

hey tht was really a genuine one n thanx a tonne for that!!

hmmm, i think i write in a particular manner probably coz dere's too much of an influence of books.

i guess dats a side effect ;)