(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5)Before you read this let us warn you that this post reveals the plot of the movie.
King Khan manages yet another romantic story. Shah Rukh’s signature style story of keeping heroines in ‘confused’ state, trying to snatch away the girl from somebody else and some emotional pack continues. If in all his earlier movies he managed running after somebody else’s girl, this movie is little different in that trying to snatch the girl from his own self. Undoubtedly his acting has been asset for the movie.
The movie begins in Amritsar in a Punjabi family. Surinder Sahani (Shah Rukh) is a simple, boring and very old-fashioned guy gets to marry equally opposite in
nature girl Taania (Anushka) under tragic conditions. Their marriage becomes conditional and runs on terms. Surinder falls in love with Taania and he slowly discovers that Taania likes guys with heroic characteristics and he plans to bring her back to her original chirpy state; otherwise she was to wipe out her past due to her tragic loss of her fiancée in a road mishap.
All credit goes to Shah Rukh managing this part of the story very nicely in the movie and keeping the audience entertained as an employee of Power of Punjab (a power supplying company)
Taania, a vivid dance lover happens to see a dance competition program in Amritsar and tries to rediscover herself in that competition. This is when Shah Rukh’s new avatar is introduced as Raj. A funky jatt trying to flirt around with girls becomes dancing partner for Taania. Suri as her husband at home and Raj as her dancing partner. Of course it was very foolish to show Taania could not recognise her own husband’s face in new avatar and believes Raj to be a different guy.
Like in all Shah Rukh movies, the story reaches a point where Taania is confused between Raj and Suri and she even gets ready to elope with Raj at one point in time. Little drama after that makes her realise she should stick to the guy she is married and goes back to Suri only to find Raj and Suri the same.
Except some of the high dose emotional packs, the movie is entertaining. Some of the Punjabi dialogues are hilarious and make you laugh instantaneously. Only the title song is catchy in the movie. Om Shanti Om seems to have pioneered a trend of having songs mimicking actors of yesteryear in Shah Rukh’s movies that followed Om Shanti Om. Hope there wont be any fresh controversies like the recent Manoj Kumar’s for the mimic song in this movie.
Shah Rukh looked a bit old pairing with this new heroine. However Anoushka’s contribution in the movie is outstanding. As a new comer she did very well. Good reflexes in dance steps and advantage of her height besides her acting skills would surely bag her new offers from other banners.
If you can tolerate bit of emotional drama, then you will not be disappointed with the entertainment in this movie. Watch Vinay Pathak, he is hilarious as Suri’s childhood friend in the movie.
Go watch this for Shah Rukh.. Happy watching!!!
Rating:***1/2
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December 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Great Review – I agree with you that this movie is definitely a must watch! –
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December 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Great review , but Hello – srk doesnt look OLD !!!!! he eats chamanprash ok .
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December 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Good review. Really enjoyed it. Though I agree with only the first and last sentence of it. Coz I watched it for Shahrukh. But I really did expect a different product from a maker who took a gap of 8 years. Even after assuming that the leading lady was not able to recognize her own husband (even by his voice!!) the movie had too many drawbacks including music. I missed Jatin Lalith. At last the new discovery of aditya chopra has nothing to offer except her sweet smile. I didn’t find any reflexes on ‘anyside’ of her ultimate acting skills. Shahrukh was the only saving grace and thank god you can barely find a scene where he is not there in the movie. Costumes for Anushka were great as well as the “Jatt” Shahrukh’s T-shirts.
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December 16th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I will have to disagree with some of the comments made above. I certainly won’t call it a must watch – but it is a decent fair. Music was boring apart from “Haule Haule” – and what’s with all those heroines again in one of the songs – why repeat something that we have already seen in SRK’s earlier movie “Om Shanti Om” – Although I must say that it was good to see Rani Mukherjee after a long time. And SRK certainly goes overboard in his “Raj Avtar” with some overacting and reminded me of one of his earlier movies – Duplicate (I don’t even want to talk about it).
Overall, I think its a decent movie and worth watching for SRK’s “Bhola Avtar”.
Any hey – good review
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