Rab Ne Paka Di Thodi….
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Movie Review
….thodi ? Its only to rhyme with the title of the film. Actually its bahut zayada pakau.
Was reading this post of Roger Ebert last nite. His list of best films of the year and how it was difficult for him to pick up only ten films and so he has come out with a list of twenty films. I was discusing the same with my freinds and we had a tough time picking five good films this year… twenty ?? …hehehe….woh subah kabhi to aayegi. And so the BIG KING Khan is here before the year ends and this one is his single release of the year. And what a disppointment!! When will our big starts learn to look beyond the scripts of their good freinds ? Till then, lets suffer!
So, the dude is back. Aditya Chopra’s third film in thirteen years. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – after spending three hours and scratching my bald head some three hundred times, i fail to understand what was so compulsive about this one that forced him out of hibernation.
The story is the same thats circulating in blogsphere for quite some time. Boring SRK gets married to a young girl and to make her fall in love with him, he becomes a new guy and then…u know, if its hindi film and if its yashraj films, what to expect.
But wait, Shahrukh Khan is not in double role….he is actually in triple role. One is boring Suriji, other is the irritating hero ji and there is a third one….yes yes…one who knows everything…the voice of sanity…he knows why Taani partner will like Heroji and why Suriji is a boring guy. He also knows that Suriji is funny because he lights up others lives. But still he remains Suriji. Confused ? Was this Aditya Chopra’s voice ? Or Who was it ? I didn’t get it. The way SRK switches from one character to other without making much of a difference is a failure on actor’s part. He seriously needs to watch Amol Palekar’s Golmaal to know the difference between playing a cool dude and pretending to be one when you are actually a dull one.
The way it starts, its interesting as the concept of love for the leads are so different. But few mins into the film and its all about LOVING YOUR RAB!! Its Raba-raba-rab!! Rubbing all the way, in almost every other scene….ghar me, office me, saloon me…you look around and you will find Rabji….he is omnipresent….you can’t argue with that!! So Rabji decides what should happen and what shouldn’t. Rabji is the third lead in the film! There is nothing intelligent about the story as its a liner straightforward story. The challenge was to hold the interest. But songs are unnecesarily forced in between, second half is packed with one after other gag and is stretched to three hours!!
There is a song featuing Kajol, Bipasha Basu, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherjee…first of all, there is no need for this one. And the novelty of star cameos is now overdone….last time it got me excited for Kal Ho Na Ho. And then Farah delivered the biggest punch with Om Shanti Om and all with a reason. Here, its just a waste. And there are numerous references to various Yashraj Films. Have been trying hard to figure out an alternative but the way we consume cinema, dont think there is a way out.
We are asked to see the films and not the filmmaker. But i have never been able to do it as i find it impossible to separte the two. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Mohabaateein and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi….Aditya Chopra’s heroes have remained the same. He will face a romantic challege and he will defeat the villain/situation by being the nice guy, delivering new philosophy of love and finally convincing everyone that he is the winner. And i dont have any romantic bone left in my body after having the same recipe for ages….the love monologues are fuckall and the characters deliver it equally fuckall way. Check out the first big one of Taani (Anoushka Sharma) when she tells Suriji what she thinks about love and why she would never be able to love him. Its hilarious! For a moment, i felt was watching some 80’s film. whenever there is any confusion…trust the rab. Before the finale, why Taani decides to go for the boring Suriji is also not clear….bus usme Rab dikhta hai! Aditya Chopra really endorses this view ? Or he thinks he has got new branding of love ? would really like to know.
Liked the way Heroji proposes to Taani partner…atleast there is a reason there. Its a lot similar to Dostana….when Abhishek (or was it John) proposes to Priyanka but that was just dumb!
If you don’t want to waste three hours then do check out Vinay Pathak’s track in Aaja Nachale. That was much more intersting and enjoyable. And somehow i have a feeling that the germ of this story is the same track. Vinay is also here as Suriji’s best freind but doesn’t have much to do. Now waiting for Ghajini…..as KK said….Nolan got a new tatoo on his chest…Murgadoss killed Memento!! Waiting to know if its revenge time or not.
Moral of the story….
Subhash Ghai – Bhole aadmiyoon ki shaadi nahi hoti….
Aditya Chopra – Agar shaadi ho bhi gayee to usme sex nahi hota hai. Use bus Rab dikhta hai
Phoenixnu – aur mujhe rab-o-phobia ho gaya hai!!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
seems like a preview by a person who hates Yashraj, SRK and their type of movies..
I have seen the movie and in my opinion and from the response of the people sitting beside me in theater, it is a nice movie..
Thanks dude…rest of the reviewing community to lagta hai dari hui hai…’Ye main hi hun jise ye film achchhi nahi lagi ya aur bhi hain’
Koi post kar hi nahi raha hai.
Thanks Yar time aur paise bachane k liye.
@PJ: You are on the spot buddy. Rediff ko saanp soongh gaya hai.
Hmm looks like most of the critics are afraid to stick their necks out.
Surprise, surprise, to date Taran Adarsh has not given a single revu of RNBDJ on Indiafm and its close to EOD in India here, this when he generally puts out revus by noon.
“KK said….Nolan got a new tatoo on his chest…Murgadoss killed Memento!!”
ROTFL!!!
I loved it. Chalo, let me stick my neck out…!
Taran Adarsh, gives it a 2 star. Not exactly torn it apart, but not too gushing either. Here are some snippets
“The problem is, RAB NE BANA DI JODI works in patches. The first 30 minutes and the penultimate 30 minutes are the highpoint of the enterprise, but the screenplay in between doesn’t hold your attention. That’s the truth!
“In a nutshell, RAB NE BANA DI JODI is no DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE. It’s not MOHABBATEIN either. At best, it’s an average fare that may generate some curiosity initially, that’s it. You expect much, much more, but… alas!”
“But the screenplay falters the moment Shah Rukh’s character Surinder transforms into Raj and his personality undergoes a sea-change. The first question that strikes you is, why didn’t Anushka realize it’s him, her husband, not someone else? Sure, he has undergone a complete makeover, but how can you not recognise your husband’s voice or appearance? That’s a glaring flaw, it’s like taking the viewer for granted! ”
“Director Aditya Chopra is letdown by his own writing. The story is not convincing, the screenplay is not water-tight and therefore, RAB NE BANA DI JODI does not create the impact it ought to make. Also, the film is quite lengthy. With a running time of approx. 2.45 hours, RAB NE BANA DI JODI could’ve easily done with some trimming. The unwanted flab could’ve been trimmed for a better impact. “
Apna Suparn has given it a 3.5 rating on Rediff, but his review seemed more like a fan boy tribute.
But to date i have seen Jahan & Suparn, give this a Thumbs Up.
So 2 Votes for , hmm quite confusing here.
hehe…really liked the ‘rab’ references…
although I havent seen the movie…and dont really like the new yash chopra/aditya chopra brand or love stories (i am the only person i knw who has not seen veer-zaara…but is it because i am the only person i know???) but i still feel that the ‘anti-’ brigade tends to be over critical of their cinema…also i dont think one should comment on the sensibilities of the movies, esp when reviewing them for others (against expressing ur own opinion) as it is very subjective…(the reason yrf is as big as it is, eh!)
as for reviews…i really do wonder why most of the paid critics are mum…maybe yrf didnt send them free tkts or setup a spl screening… (though i knw they did!)
oh and another point…Golmaal had amol palekar as a cool guy playing a geek, here its the other way round, so not a good idea to suggest that to SRK or any other aspirants for similar roles…
Dude thanks for saving my 500..I can’t believe that the movie’s story is the same as what’s circulating around..Is the heroine blind or something !! Sounds extremely stupid to me..
Seems like another SRK big bang busss!!!!! after Om shanti OM.. we expected much more since OSO a year to come up with a movie… Waiting for a gud movie.. may be Ghajini or chandini chowk to china to check out..
hahaha there are people who are actually trying to defend this peice of shit
i love srk!!! so even if its a fuck all film, idiots like me will watch it….
suparn v gives a rather contradictory review of the same on rediff…. GO WATCH, he says!!
Well I’m watching the movie 2 hrs from now & will post my comments right after the movie is over.
Unfortunately post DDLJ …the Yash Raj camp thinks they found the key to commercial success…all their products have been crap…honestly I loved DDLJ… they pretty much stopped experimenting with themes and ideas after DDLJ..only Exception is Chak De… I thot that film would teach them a lesson to approach content seriously… I doubt Yash Raj camp will come back to their glory days of Silsila, Kala Pathar, Mashal, darr etc…unless they re evaluate their content…when the promos of RNBJ aired with Adi and SRK…it hardly created any excitement…Thanks for the review,..I am skipping this film
I dont know what Shahrukh saw in the script…I somehow feel Shahrukh as decided to work only with Farah and Yash Raj.He does not give a damn what’s the story.No one else is eager to sign him also…He is making the same mistake which Salman made.Doing films for friends.But he appears to be much more intelligent…
phoenixnu! that was rather angry nai? We respect everyone, and also everyone’s opinion, but that includes the makers of this film!
I agree that the double role was not scripted realistically… and that the “dude” part of srk was too good to be possibly executed by the shy and fragile surinder.. so i totally agree with the “golmaal” training.. but that said- i also thought that this film had a very firm foundation. It’s a very honest film. From my personal experiences and knowing the mentality and conservativeness of firm-rooted traditional punjabi girls..and the families they belong to, i reckon that the film starts off on a very realistic note.. everything totally makes sense. the “nerdy” surinder is wonderfully portrayed..the stuttering.. the shy glances and confusion-all A1! Anushka did GREAT in the first pre-marriage scene.. unexpected for a first timer! the best part about her being the fact that in not a single scene in the movie she looks intimidated by shahrukh and the star he is..She is her own person.
The beginning of the film was a blast from the past for me(being born in Amristar)..stunning images of punjab.. the golden temple.. halwaais singing punjabi folk by chamkila!.. gol gappa wala washing his stall with pipe water..the trucks..patli galiz.. evrything is SO well handled..!! also! the movie is VERYY well researched.. from accents (1st movie where srk’s accent is flawless at all times..esp the scene when he’s the nerd and looking at his reflection on the back of a katori and says – “kidddaaaan!” .. Well!me and my punjabi friend’s had a great laugh (the mangalorean kannad people beside us thot we were crazy!)… minor details such as when surinder writes down his mobile numbr on a piece of paper fr taani.. its 98766–smthin .. which is actually a punjab number!! may sound silly but film makers usually miss out this kinda stuff… then the flirting scene.. anushka is too good.. it felt like the time when i was once shooed away fr flirting !! i think the film gets a lil slow in the second part of the 1st half… but from after the interval till the end its brilliant! the changing room scene.. look at taani’s eyes when she tells abt what a girl really needs.. deep! then when shez angry/confused/frustrated and works her ass off around the house.. washing clothes.. washing the already washed dishes! .. great direction..
i think the “i love you” scene was a lil too extreme on the fantasy for such a realistic movie till then.. hard to digest.. but i guess it was needed to show the madness!! but it sorta pissed me off when she saw that i love u lit city on posters and paintings at the punjab power carnival watever.. vinay pathak is brilliant as usual.. great actor! the climax is greatly done..!!
and THE CREDIT-SIDE SHOW IS HILARIOUS!!.. japaani topi .. indian kiss!!
watch it with a loved one..
watch it for a loved one…
Watch it when you’re not in a judgemental mood.. get into the characters.. You’ll love it.
Well said Arjun, agree with every word of what you have said, beautiful!
Die-hard srk fans plzzz dont watch this movie. After watching RNBDJ you will start hating him. I seriously doubt that any one can like this movie. Every other person in theater were so dis interested with this movie. I saw it. Probably Suparn saw another version of RNBDJ. Where is it playing? theater listings plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
@arjun…watch it with a loved one..
watch it for a loved one……i watched it with freinds…watched it for myself…the movie guys never told me so. otherwise wud hav followed the instructions. ;-))
if it worked for u…great! who am i to say anything. but it didnt work for me. when i went to watch the film, i was in no mood to write a post. the show was at 11 am,wok up at 10:46 and somehow managed. but after watching the film was too tempted to write. also, may be m not that romantic…it looked just so foolish to me…come fall in love when u can see rab..and that rab-factor was the turning point in the film! unbelievable!
@ ASX ……man i havent seen veer zaara..that makes 2 of us!!!!!!!!!
@phoneniuxnu
yea maybe i am romantic.. thats why it worked!
but! don’t agree that the turning point is GOD.. “rab dikhta hai..” is not meant to be literal here. It just means feeling that way about someone and realising how forgiving.. giving.. trustworthy and non judgemental, he/she is … like God… God dint change things here! thoughts did!
Veer Zaara bored the hell out of me.
As for RNBDJ, the whole premise of not recognising your madeover husband is just too UNBELIEVABLE. But I’ll watch it for SRK’s sake.
I really wish he’d do something majorly different! I’ve liked only Swades and Chak De in the last decade of his movies
Ari, ee konchi ba? Phonixwa besi mein itna tho likhat.
Ka re, tum ganwar ka? Itna badiya fillim ko tum galiyat devat, tumka dekhna nahi aavat ka?
Rab Ne Bana De Jodi is Adi Chopra’s 3rd film..he is not comin out with a directorial venture after “13 years”..neway reviews of the movie all over the web r sendin a mixed message..will watch it anyway & so do millions of others but now ill b goin with lesser expectations..hopefully it will do the trick..so much for entertainment :(
“Subhash Ghai – Bhole aadmiyoon ki shaadi nahi hoti….
Aditya Chopra – Agar shaadi ho bhi gayee to usme sex nahi hota hai. Use bus Rab dikhta hai
Phoenixnu – aur mujhe rab-o-phobia ho gaya hai!!”
-hilarious!
@Arjun: That makes three of us now- Suparn, you and me. I really liked it and agree with all you say. And yes I think the main reason is that its an honest film.
@Jahan: Make that four in a row!
“Agar shaadi ho bhi gayee to usme sex nahi hota hai. Use bus Rab dikhta hai”
I don’t think the film suggests that…
wait, the female actor’s name is Taani in the movie….will have to stay away from this one….
Well anyway the movie will do great business over this weekend for sure, aur uske baath sab Rab Ke Haath Mein.
I have now zilch expectation when i watch this movie tomorrow. All my expectations are shot down, when Taran Adarsh types also gives 2 stars(it does tell something).
Will watch OLLO once again on sunday to set my mood right.
YASH ne bana di ek aur BAKWAAS movie…:-)
> i felt was watching some 80’s film.
Pnu, it is…. The story is based on 1982’s Naseer-Rakhi starrer Dil Akhir Dil Hai (directed by Esmayil Shroff) with a little role reversal (except dual identity part)..
wheni read the review on rediff ..i thot it was sukanya verma …and i was like ’she cantbe writing all this , it looks like she’s been paid ‘..and then i read this and thats wheni realised it was suparn verma …that review had to be from someone within the industry …thats more like what they say at premieres. when teh story itself is so flawed how can the movie be good , i cant gulp it down my throat that ‘a guy gets a makeover and the wife falls in love with this new made over guy ‘ …its just so plain stupid tht even if it has great performances it doenst work .how can someone give it 3 and a half stars . i even felt taran adarsh’s 2 stars are over rated , had it not been aditya chopra srk film it wud have been murdered by critics left right centre.
wats the story of dil aakhir dil hai ?
That was not Adi’s voice. That was not even SRK’s voice. That was Karan Johar’s I guess. I still have my bets on few others though…
Gaaah!!! They all deliver same baby. I wonder how many times the same baby will re-surface. Aakhir kab tak? Wo subah kab aayegi jab aisi baby paida na ho..
Nolan got a new tatoo on his chest…Murgadoss killed Memento!! Waiting to know if its revenge time or not. ROTF-LMAO
for me, good enough, not great. half an hour too long. the half hour before the interval was unbearable but the second half made up for it.
I just wish the fact that the girl doesn’t recognise her man was handled better..
But yet, Good enough!
Hahaha… the dude is back!
Sahi sirjee, mazaa aagaya padh kar.
Nice review… now I will have fun when I will have to watch it!
@Jahan, Yaju- Thanks!!
@Bikash Kumar- hahaaa!
@oxy- well till we have some kinda genetic mutations.. its goonna be the same kinda babies as always! till then im happy wid this species!
Is Suparn Verma the same who ripped CONfidence frame by frame into Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena? Well..well!!!
Supern Verma wants to be in good books of YRF.May be he thinks that he will get to direct next YR film.So thoda maska laga raha hai
Brilliant film! Better than OLLO.
Get over yourselves and get off your high-horses!
Should we have to inhabit the world of your type of cinema ONLY. If so I suggest India becomes either a fascist or communist Country.
I have never read so many people in agreement to what constitutes “good” and “bad” films. Herein lies the problem – diversity of views is a good concept otherwise people might begin to think this forum had some sort of axe to grind.
I personally feel that most of the movies “worshipped” on this site are boring, dull and grey!
Hip, hip hooray for YRF.
Don’t get worked up my friends – jealousy kills creativity so save your energy. Why fight a loosing battle?
Sasha
Why are u bringing poor communists into this forum?.As far as I know there is no restriction for ur favourite RNBDJ in two communist ruled states of Kerala and West Bengal
LOL – the SRK fanatics are out in full force. If you don’t like the movie, they translates it as bashing SRK when YRF is the real culprit. Wake up people, YRF has been sinking for a while except for CDI (just another sports movie in my book).
Sasha
I hate your comments. Please never ever post such stupid comments. Corrupted capitalistic minds like yours is of so much harm to this country which is already being fucked over again and again by people like you.
hmmm … looks like Adi has rehashed Abhimanyu! Abhimanyu atleast had Kimi Katkar :P
You woke up at 10.46 and went to see a 11 am show of RNBDJ (is that the correct acronym)? It just beats me guys…beats the hell out of me…please tell me you had a free pass or I’ll faint.
@46
I on the other hand am glad to read your comment!
Chill!!!! Mine is only a minority point of view on this Forum. Are you going to “hang me” for it. What ever happened to “freedom of speech”. Besides I love being an “agitator”. So much fun – don’t you think.
@ sasha
you meant losing i presume not loosing….do you work for YRF
Abhay, to your question – not yet. But I hope to do so soon. After all the only reason I could have for praising them is because I want a job with them. I must be out of my mind to like their films otherwise, isn’t that so?
No sense of humour – that’s what’s wrong with this forum!
@rabji..plz dont faint. i went for press screening n i stay at walking distance from yrf studio! hope that helps.
The only person who liked this film is, who else, Khalid Mohammed. Read his mind-boggling review at
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=c4504e86-39f6-4c2f-84dc-c3c4343b5435
If you say so Sasha.
Anyway, they tried to pull a “Mein Meri Patni Aur Woh”. Sorta.
Man this is so gaayyyyyy…KM giving 3.5 stars jus cos SRK has given “mind-boggling” performance……LAME
Thankyou for saving my money too.. im also not gonna watch d film!
God bless
will watch OYE LUCKY – LUCKY OYE AGAIN
atleast its a mast honest REAL film..
yashraj is fake – artificial – yashraj films make bad cinema..
LONG LIVE GOOD CINEMA
The title of Khalid’s review is hilarious !!!
Satyam Shahrukham Surinderam
hahahahaha
Mac Mohan,
Aap hai India ka future!
seen the film
my review is exactly raja sen’s review on rediff.
and wonder who’s this suparn verma who wrote the other review on rediff .. some teenager
@Kalki: lol…He is not a teenager, he is the guy who made Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena and has also scripted some bollywood movies..!
@ PheonixNU “@arjun…watch it with a loved one..
watch it for a loved one……i watched it with freinds…watched it for myself…the movie guys never told me so. otherwise wud hav followed the instructions. ;-))”
Freaking hilarious! I was thinking the same thing! I’m soooooo bloody tired of the “Come with your loved ones… laugh… cry… eat… sleep… wake up… shower… and love…” crap. So bloody airy and contrived. Bottom line the film, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to be very good. Sucks. I had some expectations… all trashed now. Thank God my company’s got a Christmas Party this weekend…
Well I’ve seen the movie & here is what I feel-
Positives- SRK has pulled off both the characterisations considerably well and particularly as Surinder Sahni he is very convincing & real.Anushka is a find ( hope she doesnt go the Mahima Chowdhary,Gracy Singh way) & does manage to impress, there is nothing overdone in the movie ( like its shot in Amritsar but no usual loud Punjabi caricatures etc), Haule Haule & Dance Pe Chance are quite good & the way the movie ends ( especially end credits ) is quite well done.
Negatives- Nothing novel about the plot.Is similar to the Vinay Pathak segment of Aaja Nachle & also has shades of Pati Patni aur Woh.During the 2nd half for nearly a good half an hour the pace sags a lot & the audience (till then contented) starts getting uneasy.Apart from SRK & Anushka there are hardly any other characters.Even Vinay Pathak’s role hardly has any substance.
All said & done if its viewed just as any other movie I would rate it as a good movie.But considering that its an Adi Chopra-SRK combo, I’m a bit disappointed- it could have been better.
@Tanul – strange.
whats so shameless abt the scriptwriter of this film is that wherever he can’t hold the script together he brings in the god angle. then it becomes like – you are against god if you think its getting absurd. its some kind of blackmailing.
and ofcourse, those stupid theories on the nature of ‘love’. as if the scriptwriter is some psychologist or some authority on the topic of love. somebody should give him a nobel prize in science for his thesis on ‘love’ , i wonder if he’l be so shameless to accept it. freakin manipulator!
i would like to see what the scriptwriter will do if his daughter ‘falls’ in ‘love’ with some asshole low-income good-for-nothing labour like a driver who is an SRK fan and ‘believes’ in the ‘love’ that is seen in srk films like this.
hmm..seems like a good premise for a movie script. no copyrights, any takers? mr. suparn verma?
ive read in an srk interview on indiafm that this film was written in 12 days and shot in 47 days. not surprising at all. just 3 characters, almost whole film shot in sets in some film studio. excluding the remunerations, the production cost mustve been very less, actually extremely less compared to other ‘big’ hindi films.
i guess this prod company needed to infuse some funds into their company and this movie is like some quick fund-raiser. put in srk, ofcourse put in love, put in god(it works), make a quick buck.
no integrity, no shit, nothing. just money. by manipulation & exploitation of the indian emotion.
undoubtedly a very good businessman this guy is.
let me end this with some good points about the film : music, ocassional cleavage of the heroine, and….. hmm…
Satyam Shahrukham Surinderam
Hahahahahaaaa. Fundoo, Tooo Goooood.
Khalid must be given membership to the Writers Guild, America with immediate effect. Spare us Khalid!
watched the movie. still in a daze. i think my brain is permanently damaged. need to watch gunda ASAP.
For reasons I can’t explain, I saw this film twice today!
Whilst it wasn’t bad, it was no masterpiece either.
3 films came to mind;
Aaja Nachle
Hum Dil De Chuke
Satyam Shivam Sundaram.
I’ve never liked ‘Satyam…’, it’s absurd & silly, no matter whatever the points it tried to make!
This wasn’t as bad as that.
It was quite enjoyable & SRK was extremely good.
It’s a weak film, but it makes up for it in other ways.
Is it just me or is Vinay Pathak everywhere??!
He was great!
Anushka= Divya Bharthi!
Sanjay o s!
‘Yash ne bana di ek aur bakwaas movie’?!
LMAO!
I am really getting bored of SRK’s movies…why he is doing movies with the same formulae…i dont understand…cmon..SRK..do some different movies..where you can show ur real talent…
@ Girish-
Whats common between RNBDJ, Bhootnath, OSO, Chak De India, Don,KANK,Paheli & Swades?
These are the movies done by him in the last 3 years in the exact reverse order.I have left out movies like Shaurya or I See You or Hey Baby where he has been a sutradhar or been there for a song etc.
In case you find any similarity between the roles done by him in these movies please let me know.Maybe there’s something that your eyes have noticed which people like me havent been able to notice.
I have always felt that just like two people are not alike, different people can interpret the same movie differently.So if someone likes RNBDJ,someone may not like it.Its the same for any movie.
So by that logic people who have seen it & havent liked it have as much right to write about it here as much as people who’ve liked it.Even I have expressed both my positive & negative views on the movie after watching it.
What irks me is the fact that there are generally a lot of SRK/YRF bashers who are trying to have a field day now.Also more irritating is the fact that people who havent watched it commenting negatively on the movie.Give me a break.Sure you dont have to watch a movie to write about it.But if you are being fiery about something, cant you atleast watch it, be sure & then write???
@ Sethu of the movies u mentioned, he hardly has any role in Bhootnath, so leave that out.
And if u ask me only in Swades and CDI,to some extent Paheli, cud i see SRK act.
KANK, he was one of the worst things in the movie for me, he did the same thing which he has done before in Chalte Chalte and Hum Tumhare Hai Sanam, where he plays an insecure husband.
DOn, OSO- Sorry i would not hold em up as any example of great acting.
@ Ratnakar
I wasnt at all saying anything about SRK’s performances being good or bad.I was only responding to somebody saying SRK is doing the same kind of roles.And as far as your comment on KANK is concerned, I view it differently-
at first when I saw it I was extremely irritated with him & the character.But then I’ve realised that it takes courage for someone like him to do a role where the entire audience ( whether they are his fans or not) would be hating him all the more considering he’s the hero & not the villain in that movie.Just for this one point I appreciate what he did.
I saw it yesterday. The movie starts off very nicely. The first 45 minutes are real good. Its like the movie is cruising nicely on Bombay Pune Highway. Then comes the Raj part. Which is OK. It has its moments but the pace becomes inconsistent. Its like driving on any urban city road with few potholes. Nevertheless the journey continues. Phir aata hain last 30 minutes or so. We are back on Bombay Pune highway. And the movie ends nicely in Japan. Loved that bit.
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All in all, its a sweet, intimate movie. Nothing great. Not the greatest love story but it works.
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And yes, Thanks to SRK for giving us Suri.
As I stepped out of the theater, anchors tried shoving mikes in my face for a one line review. I get worked up like Taani‘s (Anuskha Sharma) helplessness in the film.
Should I respond by saying, “Shahrukh is very effective” or shall I give them a token word to sum the total of all fears, that it‘s a bad film.
“Yeehaw”, they‘ll all rush to celebrate the failure of one more Yashraj project.
It‘s unfair to judge a film in one word, and then there are films that are simply, simply BAD.
Adi, I understand this film was a rush job, but dude if you really had to do all the writing, why didn‘t you let Papa Chopra ‘ghost direct‘ this Adi ne bana di boring film……
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Oh yeah, I loved the songs especially Haule Haule and Tujh mein Rab dikhta hain.
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and Golden Temple and the verses in the back ground.
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I think the parts are better than the sum.
Vishesh-
I share your sentiments about the movie.SRK rocked as Suri, not doubt about it.And good to know you made it too for the 1st day.When did the advance booking finally start over there?
Sethu yaara :-)
It started on Thursday and I was there in the Hall-ji by 12 noon.
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The Japanese Honeymoon is one of the most endearing things I have seen in a Hindi movie after a long time.
“Saadi Gadi Te Goodwill Naal Chaldi Hai”
This is a line from OLLO’s Title track…
I thought about this line when i saw RNBDJ…. I did not like the movie but in know it will be declared a hit……. Bcoz YRF ki gadi bhi goodwill naal chaldi hai…
not worth the time, effort and money…
not a great movie..but not that bad either..def better than many of the movies released this year…would have been better if the editing was tighter…
After 2 days, my opinion on RNBDJ remains the same, that is, it is an entertainer, and nothing more. People looking for only entertainment without much logic will enjoy this alot. Others, like me, will sit and write where it went wrong. So here goes…
RNBDJ comes as a dissapointment, since the movie promised to be more of a class act on the lines of DDLJ & CDI. However, it ended up being just another crowd pleaser.
Going by SRK’s interviews and the promos, RNBDJ seemed like it would show how a common man could be loved for his simplicity, more on the lines of Rajpal Yadav’s Main, Meri Patni aur Woh, but, ofcourse, on a bigger canvas and in a more entertaining manner.
RNBDJ scores on the entertainment front, but falters big time in its message. The final message, if any, that this movie gives is that, a good-looking girl can only love a stylish, wannabe-type guy… the Raj sort of character. A simple Suri can only be respected like a “Rab”. If, at the scripting stage ifself, Aditya Chopra had reconsidered what he wanted to convey, then the movie could have been critically more well-received. Imagine if he had shown that Anoushka was noticing, and slowly and steadily falling for the simplicity of Suri rather than the loud buffoonery of Raj, things could have been more better.
Coming to SRK, I loved his performance as Suri, but where he messes up is playing the role of person who is acting as another character. Now, don’t get me wrong, but picturise this, Suri is only ‘acting’ as Raj, so his body language and mannerisms as Raj is only supposed to be with him when he is in the Raj mould infront of Anoushka. If left all alone, he should ‘technically’ and ‘emotionally’ be Suri, since, well… he is Suri. In the scene before the final dance competition where Anoushka tells Raj that she wouldn’t leave her husband and walks off, SRK emotes in relief… infact, he emotes excellently. But my only issue here is that he emotes as Raj, his body language and mannerisms are still of Raj. If his body language is shown transforming into Suri’s while emoting, then i feel the scene would have been a class act. He gets the physical aspects of the two different characters well, but what he couldn’t achieve is getting into the mind of the one character that he is playing, that of Suri’s. So, at the end, it seems as if SRK has played a double role. The audience shouldn’t have been deceived that there were two characters, only Anoushka should have.
So at the end, RNBDJ will most probably end up as a hit or a superhit for YRF. But a prestige hit like CDI or DDLJ… no way!!
Yeah Shahid, I agree, that Taani should’ve been shown to be falling in love with her husband and not just seeing a ‘rab’ in him.
Infact, had the film had a slight change in the storyline where the husband makes changes for his new bride, not as another man but as himself, would’ve worked better for me.
It would’ve been a simple, brilliant, convincing film.
Oh well. It’s done now.
the intent of RNBDJ is so strong that u r bound to overlook its technical flaws coz the makers hv overlooked them,& inspite of it they hv gone ahead & told a story which seems that they believed was ought to be told & in the manner(format)it is to be told.Its no DDLJ but there wudnt b any DDLJ,ever.And acc to me the makers were nt even attempting it.MOHABBATEIN was a bad film.It didnt touch me.But RNBDJ is good cinema by a good team.And yes SRK is an actor & a powerhouse one at that.His understanding of collective human emotional psyche is immense(esp. the ‘healthier’ human emotions like love,patience,sacrifice,faith).Also there was some rawness in SRK’s performance,innocence that had been missing in the middle of his career & we hv seen emergence of a new SRK after Swades & its a delight.Go watch RNBDJ.All the talk abt ‘regressive’ end is bullshit acc to me..irrespective of all the reviews go & watch it coz of SRK..go & watch fr the team who gave us DDLJ & I assure u will not come back dissapointed.
No doubt movie brings head ache but some part of it are really good. atleast the way amritsar has been captured doesn’t look plastic (the way chandnichowk looked plastic in K3G). and the character suri is well played by shahrukh. excpet these things and vinay pathak (of course) the movie is a scum bag.
Saw it on Saturday. Its a simple moive told in a very complicated way.
I am sure, if Rab watches this moive. He would grant the instant admission to all those involved in making the moive to Hell !!!
For SRK fans movie and mostly for ladies it will work. But for others its strictly no no.
The basic flaw is Anushka not recongnising SRK. And all Rab part is very stupid. SRK is nice as Suri , but as Raj he is over the top. And in Raj part, while doing his trademark Raj part, he was looking very wicked thanks to the old age. His facial bones were for display as if he is suffering from malnourishment.
Disappointing movie from YRF and Adi. It may run on BO for some weeks thanks to no new release and
initial euphoria and low cost of production. But it is not pathbreaking movie. Its time for Adi and SRK to grow up.
ab itna kuch padh liya (84 comments) toh picture dekhne ki iccha jaag uti hai
…chalo SRK ko ek aur mauka de dethe hain