Well, so I went through all of it. All of what? Jab Tak Hai Jaan... starring some memorable names in Bollywood who won't be in memory for this.
From a trailer to an entire reel length, yes it converted me. That sure says something about the trailer, esp when the rest of it was so obnoxious that I'd had a bath when it ended to wash off the obnoxious yrf spunk all over me. The trailer scammed me, flat, though I did start to sense shortcomings right then after repeated play. Maybe it was because I've started to miss the road again, and reminiscing old days.
Oh, damn, so Rahman is enough to influence my decision to never watch any big-studio Bollywood production. I've been so consistently disappointed, but that disappointment never included Shahrukh since real long, in fact I'd been safely avoiding Shahrukh Khan movies until now, until Rahman convinced me to dedicate it some time. The music of Rahman from JTHJ is something that grew on me. More so, since I don't even listen to much of the Bollywood stuff either. But JTHJ is a name I first picked while on a bike trip to Auli... I was smitten enough to ask Atul about the track playing on his list (and he seemed not to like it at all, clueless of the track title, and barely certain of its parent movie). That track was Ishq Dance... and after that came this music from the trailer, that I picked on Sony TV [the movie airs this Sunday, the best part of which is that you only need to see it for the first 5 minutes till the opening shot]. That music trailer, it has come to my mind as well, feels very much inspired by Santaolalla's Apertura on The Motorcycle Diaries soundtrack.
In a quick review of a movie composed of several threads tied clumsily... oops I just said it all. It grows on you - increasingly obnoxiously, that is. You won't know how Shahrukh managed to become a bomb expert soon as he gets dumped, but you will come to know that he's so awesome that he walks into his work - in the bomb squad - sans protection (to tote his medals which he apparently, again, got right after being dumped), and walks out of it victorious each time, and rides away to camp at Pangong tso between those bomb calls (yeah, so you mean he fucken needs to ride a Royal Enfield 5 hours to urgently attend to a bomb in the marketplace each time?). Oh, and don't even ask how he got into the Indian Army after 30 - and living in London for n years. You just don't ask these things when in such movies.
Katrina Kaif looks hot for the first five seconds, then grows increasingly annoying, to match the increasingly-annoying Mr. Khan.
That other girl, Anushka, stays consistently annoying throughout. She seems to be taken in the movie just to finish some contract. The script barely makes some intelligent effort to incorporate her. Her acting goes with her figure - flat (as Katrina's goes against her figure, i.e. flat, again).
The worst scene in the movie has gotta be the one where the first friction between Shahrukh Khan and Anushka develops, as he's trying to defuse a bomb while she's standing right under it (and oblivious of that fact) listening to iPod, deaf to the outside world, and looking the exact opposite way, filming some captivating hill scenery - at the scene of a bomb defusal site... then a loud explosion (apparently not even the car parking sign in the background was damaged, despite the intensity) and some phony action follows. Then there is a compilation of scenes of Katrina Kaif being made to run towards Shahrukh Khan from all corners of London wearing skimpy dresses; and then one scene where she actually gets to act for more than, like, a minute, as Shahrukh has, for once, shut up, after coming under a car. Pathetic and hilarious, come together.
And no you don't sit forlorn by the shores of Pangong Tso, Mr. Shahrukh - you become a part of it.
Fantastic movie. To feel good about not being so cloyingly obnoxious. Jab Tak Hai Jaan - ये पिक्चर न देखना. Ha, they knew this pun was coming.
From a trailer to an entire reel length, yes it converted me. That sure says something about the trailer, esp when the rest of it was so obnoxious that I'd had a bath when it ended to wash off the obnoxious yrf spunk all over me. The trailer scammed me, flat, though I did start to sense shortcomings right then after repeated play. Maybe it was because I've started to miss the road again, and reminiscing old days.
Oh, damn, so Rahman is enough to influence my decision to never watch any big-studio Bollywood production. I've been so consistently disappointed, but that disappointment never included Shahrukh since real long, in fact I'd been safely avoiding Shahrukh Khan movies until now, until Rahman convinced me to dedicate it some time. The music of Rahman from JTHJ is something that grew on me. More so, since I don't even listen to much of the Bollywood stuff either. But JTHJ is a name I first picked while on a bike trip to Auli... I was smitten enough to ask Atul about the track playing on his list (and he seemed not to like it at all, clueless of the track title, and barely certain of its parent movie). That track was Ishq Dance... and after that came this music from the trailer, that I picked on Sony TV [the movie airs this Sunday, the best part of which is that you only need to see it for the first 5 minutes till the opening shot]. That music trailer, it has come to my mind as well, feels very much inspired by Santaolalla's Apertura on The Motorcycle Diaries soundtrack.
In a quick review of a movie composed of several threads tied clumsily... oops I just said it all. It grows on you - increasingly obnoxiously, that is. You won't know how Shahrukh managed to become a bomb expert soon as he gets dumped, but you will come to know that he's so awesome that he walks into his work - in the bomb squad - sans protection (to tote his medals which he apparently, again, got right after being dumped), and walks out of it victorious each time, and rides away to camp at Pangong tso between those bomb calls (yeah, so you mean he fucken needs to ride a Royal Enfield 5 hours to urgently attend to a bomb in the marketplace each time?). Oh, and don't even ask how he got into the Indian Army after 30 - and living in London for n years. You just don't ask these things when in such movies.
Katrina Kaif looks hot for the first five seconds, then grows increasingly annoying, to match the increasingly-annoying Mr. Khan.
That other girl, Anushka, stays consistently annoying throughout. She seems to be taken in the movie just to finish some contract. The script barely makes some intelligent effort to incorporate her. Her acting goes with her figure - flat (as Katrina's goes against her figure, i.e. flat, again).
The worst scene in the movie has gotta be the one where the first friction between Shahrukh Khan and Anushka develops, as he's trying to defuse a bomb while she's standing right under it (and oblivious of that fact) listening to iPod, deaf to the outside world, and looking the exact opposite way, filming some captivating hill scenery - at the scene of a bomb defusal site... then a loud explosion (apparently not even the car parking sign in the background was damaged, despite the intensity) and some phony action follows. Then there is a compilation of scenes of Katrina Kaif being made to run towards Shahrukh Khan from all corners of London wearing skimpy dresses; and then one scene where she actually gets to act for more than, like, a minute, as Shahrukh has, for once, shut up, after coming under a car. Pathetic and hilarious, come together.
And no you don't sit forlorn by the shores of Pangong Tso, Mr. Shahrukh - you become a part of it.
Fantastic movie. To feel good about not being so cloyingly obnoxious. Jab Tak Hai Jaan - ये पिक्चर न देखना. Ha, they knew this pun was coming.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan probably better describes my this day, 6 years back.
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