Monday, December 22, 2008

Oops I did it again...

Don't remember how many times have I pledged not to do it but yesterday I did it again. Like a ludomaniac hoping for a better luck this time, I went to see the latest Saruk Khan movie called 'Rab ne bana di jodi' inspite of mother nature trying to stop me with symptoms of Acute Viral Nasopharyngitis..
The latest produce from the Chopra factory with the self-proclaimed able direction from Mr. Aditya Chopra and a double dose of hamming from Saruk has completely flattened me with a sense of complete defeat. I feel cheated, humiliated and my ego bruised badly. How could I be among those people who dared to hope for something sensible from Saruk and Chopra gang?
Actually the movie starts with a rather promising scene with some camera angles taken from the text book and imitating Shyam Benegal and like...all looks well and things become interesting when we know under what cirucmstances Suri and Taani had to marry each other. (Ofcourse there are a couple of ham scenes from the father of Taani which anyone who is familiar with hindi movies, can bear easily). Things begin to fall apart when Saruk opens his mouth and spits out the dreaded lines on his cell phone.. "Surinder Sahni ji, Punjab power, Lighting up your life ji". Aaaaaaargh, all the while when one is thinking that Suri is an average joe, he suddenly becomes an idiot, a Saruk khan with glasses, plain hair and a mustache trying to make his fans laugh. (And believe me, his fans do laugh...I think the fact that Saruk is trying to make them laugh is sufficient for them to laugh). And then the rest is no-story.. A train of so called 'funny' scenes starts.. In some of them Suri Saruk tries to make people laugh and in others Raj Saruk does the same thing. As per the 'demand of the script' Taani finds Raj Saruk lovable against all common sense. Ofcourse the director has provided two solid evidences that Taani had no option but to love Raj Saruk because he can eat more Pani Puri's than she can and he proclaims his love at the cost of Punjab power and a forced load shedding on Amritsarians. Taani's dream sequences and the songs really make one wonder about her sensibility. No point in talking about how Suri Saruk shows his love for Taani in the fair.
One may wonder, if Suri can become so dashing, adorable and smart in a flash just by changing clothes and hairdo, why didn't he do it earlier? Why would he live and talk like a 'filmi' common man?
These questions are safely ignored as usual assuming that the audience always has a lower IQ than the director.
What happens next, how the movie ends is not really important. What is important is that it finally ends.

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