I went to see it, 9:00 AM show at Velocity, without expecting much from the movie, considering the recent shabby offerings of Ghai.
but, I was in for a surprise. Yes, Subhash Ghai has done it. He has given a good movie. It is full of entertainment. Nowhere you would bored. Though, it is not keeping you hanging on the seat's edge like original Karz as there is no such suspense in it, it is not going to make you clap on dialogues like Kalicharan and Vishwanath, it is not making you to break into dance like Khalnayak, still you would not look at your watch to find how much time has passed and you wouldn't wish that it finishes soon and you go away to your home. Ghai has transformed drastically. It is a modern day picture. Full of soft emotions and poetic romance. Loosely knit around a family drama, but it was a great relief that there is no melodrama, no tear-jerker. When he started showing all those oddly described complicated family equations, all those villainous relatives, all that Machiavellian planning for property, for a moment I got worried that Ghai is back to his usual, torn, worn line, but, no. That part was just a backdrop for the story and the film continued on its modern theme. Money is spent like anything. Somewhere graphics special effects are also there that look neat. Cinematography is superb. Katrina is shown as emotional, caring as well as intelligent. And that is saying a lot for the leading lady on the silver screen nowadays. Her presence makes the screen alive. No there is no vulgarity in it. Even her so-hyped hot scene with Salman are also quite decent and naughty. You can see the movie with family, with kids, with elders. The second find of the film is Anil Kapoor. Compared to Taal's wordly wise, get-what-i-want, pragmatic, realistic guy, here he goes to other extreme playing a mentally retarded adult. But he did superb. Odd that he was not given a lady pairing with him. No, as was indicated by the storyline tips earlier, he is not a connoisseur/ singer/ collector of classical music. He is just a normal, exploited retarded man. Knowing that Salman is in music line, Anil goes with Salman where Salman's music group finds a place for Anil's singing and it comes out that he had a natural talent for classical singing. Salman looks aged and even plump to the verge of appearing fat. Still, he fitted in his role quite well. Earlier storyline tips indicated that he promises to earn 40 billions in a few days to get married to Katrina, but no, on knowing that his (salman's) billionaire dad is dead, Salman sure of fetching a big enough share in the inheritance, makes the commitment of becoming a billionaire in 40 days. Zayed looks much younger, better, much classier than Salman though Zayed's character wasn't develop with such finese. Boman Irani, as Katrina's dad has done great. Natural comedy, various phases of personality all are presented with great finesse. Mithun Chakrovorty, as the family lawyer has also suited quite OK, though nothing much was there for him to do. I must say that even though there is no direct relation in the story line of this film with Taxi No. 9-2-11, still the basic theme of transformation brought in a a spoilt, cunning, worldy-wise, masti-seeker brat (John in 9-2-11, and Salman and Zayed in Yuvvraaj) was shown much better with a great natural finese in 9-2-11 And if you want to know about the song and music - he he he - This is the best treatment given to ARR's music and BGM that I had seen in a long time. Of course, there is no comparison with Shankar's and Mani's treatment to our man's offering, still all songs are well, great, superbly done. Beautiful picturisations of the songs also. No song really is necessary for the loose story, still no song appears boring, no song hinders the story. You would love to see the song and would enjoy them all like anything. The film starts with "Main Hoon Yuvvraaj" on Salman, Katrina. Yes, the Salman intro and "Tu Meri Dost Hain" are in continuation. Beautifully done. Katrina's part portrays poetic romance so well. I am forgetting the sequence, but I think, then there is "Tu Muskura", and "Mastam Mastam" on the two. Then, Shano Shano has Zayed also. Zindagi is primarily on Anil Kapoor and Katrina. yes, there is a small triangle when Anil Kapoor feels love for Katrina, but Salman trashes it soon and fast. Zindagi is in two parts. Manmohini is also on Anil Kapoor singing in Salman/ Katrina troup's rehearsal. This is shown even shorter than the tiny CD version, and the remaining part is shown in the closing title I guess. the climax is ""dil ka rishta pak jaane de" on stage on Anil Kapoor where Katrina plays an instrument and Salman, Zayed also appear. Closing title has Shano Remix, I guess. I haven't heard that much so not sure. Or it could be a different long BGM having mixture of other songs of the movie. Please feel free to correct if something above is wrongly mentioned. -- So, go see it, with anyone and everyone. You would all enjoy it. 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