Hi! There's nothing new that im writing here about this over hyped movie-JTYJN.. One needs to go into the movie hall without keeping in mind the powerful combination of Aamir Khan-Abbas Tyrewala-AR Rahman, else you feel like you've been let down big time.
Not being a hardcore Rahmaniac here or not being a fanatic so to say, but honestly, AR Rahman, truly is the hero of the film. Hands down. Only the music stands like some grace to the hype given to the movie. The movie is very ordinary. The script, especially knowing that the concerned has written marvellous scripts like Munnabhai and Maqbool has come up with such an ordinary script-a big let down it was. It's a simple love story, not much can be done about it, but a few things here and there could have made it a special and "let me go back for it" type of a movie. But unfortunately, it failed to do so. The concept of having narration was nice, but when you plan something you ensure it executes well as well. The narration was boring, dragging and had foolish timings. The character called "Maala", the airhostess-was lucky that she got through the auditons when the casting director was asleep. There is a line that seperates humor and stupidity and Abbas Tyrewala crossed the wrong side here. The humor was very kiddish, of sorts, and truly needed one to tickle to be able to laugh. The kids would like it, maybe, but they would prefer "dexter" or "Tom and Jerry", if the choice was given. An honest suggestion would be that the director could have made this movie a "laughable" one instead of making it a one to be laughed at. We're in 2008 and we cant be fooled anymore. Going through the security check by crawling through the knees of the security and getting into a luggage bag and getting through the extra strong rays and jumping the heads of passengers to reach Aditi who has done everything but stepped into the flight, seemed testimonial to the feeling shared above.This would have been funny if the movie was a comedy and the director was trying to make fun of what happens when you fall in love, but NO, this movie was to show "when do you know it's love". According to the movie you know its love when Imran Khan rides on a horse in the lonely streets of Bombay or would have crazy unimaginable stuff that comes time to time in this movie. Again, a different tagline to the movie and labelling it a comedy would have helped. There's still time-others going to watch it, your not going in for a romantic comedy, your going in for a pure "Children's special"! Genelia, wins the race with her looks but the fact that she did not know Hindi was obvious, or maybe I was too observant a cinema goer. Her Hindi dialogues let her acting down-was too noticeable. Imran is a stud-don't even to try to gather attention from a female friend when Imran is on screen. Acting quite good, stiff here and there, but will go a long way for sure. Thank you Aamir uncle. Naseeruddin Shah is an awesome actor-very minimally used here. The gujju character brings in some comedy with his histrionics and accent, meanwhile the others do a decent job. And this movie has realised what a great actor I am-and what an amazing dialogue delivery I have-thanks to Genelia's "soon to be husband" !! Terrible-the biggest lowpoint of the movie.. The music-like most of the movies, hardly use ARR's potential. It's almost like ARR is somewhere struggling behind the screens to escape-from the bonds he has been tied with. For such peppy compositions like Kabhi Kabhi and Pappu you expect something more. Kabhi Kabhi is okay picturised-Nazrein and Pappu follow. Tu bole is a very smart idea-to be introduced as the introduction of the movie, gives the audience a good welcome. Rahman fans dont leave the movie hall during the intermission please-they play Jaane tu meri/mera then. Also, let the credits roll to the end-you have Chetan's remix then. But this is a proper misuse of the magician's music. While they remains hardly any scope for BGM's..ARR as a part of his struggle writes some amazing music..his own voice as the theme and some awesome techno trendy twists to pappu and aditi give you complete proof to the fact that ARR remains the most genuine and hardworking artist here. If you really want to enjoy the movie, curse me for writing this-forget what was written here and just go there for a good get together or a break. Im never going to say-don't watch the movie, I beleive one must watch it, with minimal expectations and to hope that Govinda was the main character of the film. The direction vehicle sure had its "Tyres" punctured. Aamir needs to ensure a good air filling. The production house was blessed by god that the other movie to compete was a disaster like LS 2050 and not a magnum opus like JA-else this would have turned out to be one "Sunlight v/s Sursurbatti" competition. Buy the original Audio and feel blessed! Thanks!! Nazeef
