Movie Review: Jab Tak Hai Jaan
As happens every year, Shah Rukh had a release on Diwali, and as happens every year, I went to watch it too! And as has been happening every year in recent times, I regretted it!
But to be frank, I felt a lot more let down this time, it was a Yash Chopra romantic movie with Shah Rukh, Katrina and Anushka; it had beautiful locales like Leh and London; music was by AR Rahman; how could it go wrong?
But it did, terribly! I could not see one saving grace in the movie. Actually there was one, which was the 'Challa' song. Other than that, nothing at all!
Where do I start? The story was just terrible! Was it not read before the filming of the movie started? There was no character development, no story development at all. Things were just happening for no real reason!
A fish-seller-and-waiter-and-street singer-and-snow plower, all-in-one in London runs into rich girl Katrina Kaif couple of times, starts teaching her to sing and they fall in love. There are enough sequences by this time to make you want to leave the theatre. Shah Rukh is trying to make Katrina see her inner person by taking her to a modern hip hop underground party. Really? How does it do that, and how does that make him fall in love with her? Honestly, at no point in the movie should you try to use your brain or sense!
Katrina is already engaged, but decided to get back with Shah Rukh when her mom makes her realise that true love is most important in life. Also, Katrina believes in Jesus and making promises to him. Due to certain circumstances, she ends up making a promise to never see Shah Rukh ever again, and so they part. And that is the basis of the movie.
Shah Rukh becomes a bomb disposal squad Major in the Indian Army in Ladakh (with a permanent scowl on his face) where he runs into a Discovery TV reporter, Anushka who again falls for him and tries many times to woo him. She makes him come back to London where he meets Katrina again and blah-blah-blah in 3 hours, they reunite!
I don't even want to write about the loopholes in the story, I think for that, this comic strip by Vigil Idiot is the best thing to read.
All I can say is that the story had loopholes as big as the story itself. The music was below average other than 'Challa'. The acting was fine but difficult to focus on, given your brain was exploding due to the randomness going on. Locales as usual were beautiful. But a big letdown for a Yash Chopra romance.
Would go for 2 stars for this one. (And would like to pretend I never ever watched this movie!)
But to be frank, I felt a lot more let down this time, it was a Yash Chopra romantic movie with Shah Rukh, Katrina and Anushka; it had beautiful locales like Leh and London; music was by AR Rahman; how could it go wrong?
But it did, terribly! I could not see one saving grace in the movie. Actually there was one, which was the 'Challa' song. Other than that, nothing at all!
Where do I start? The story was just terrible! Was it not read before the filming of the movie started? There was no character development, no story development at all. Things were just happening for no real reason!
A fish-seller-and-waiter-and-street singer-and-snow plower, all-in-one in London runs into rich girl Katrina Kaif couple of times, starts teaching her to sing and they fall in love. There are enough sequences by this time to make you want to leave the theatre. Shah Rukh is trying to make Katrina see her inner person by taking her to a modern hip hop underground party. Really? How does it do that, and how does that make him fall in love with her? Honestly, at no point in the movie should you try to use your brain or sense!
Katrina is already engaged, but decided to get back with Shah Rukh when her mom makes her realise that true love is most important in life. Also, Katrina believes in Jesus and making promises to him. Due to certain circumstances, she ends up making a promise to never see Shah Rukh ever again, and so they part. And that is the basis of the movie.
Shah Rukh becomes a bomb disposal squad Major in the Indian Army in Ladakh (with a permanent scowl on his face) where he runs into a Discovery TV reporter, Anushka who again falls for him and tries many times to woo him. She makes him come back to London where he meets Katrina again and blah-blah-blah in 3 hours, they reunite!
I don't even want to write about the loopholes in the story, I think for that, this comic strip by Vigil Idiot is the best thing to read.
All I can say is that the story had loopholes as big as the story itself. The music was below average other than 'Challa'. The acting was fine but difficult to focus on, given your brain was exploding due to the randomness going on. Locales as usual were beautiful. But a big letdown for a Yash Chopra romance.
Would go for 2 stars for this one. (And would like to pretend I never ever watched this movie!)
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