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Director: Aditya Chopra
Love is a yellow tiffin stuffed with ‘garma garam khana’, balanced between the knees of that scooter rider going down a small-town road, on his way to his public sector office, and fellows called Sharma ji, Varma ji, and Sahni ji.
Or that’s what Aditya Chopra would have us believe. His new film has Shah Rukh Khan playing Surinder Sahni, a small cog in a big ‘sarkaari’ wheel, living an ordinary 9 to 5 existence. He has a best friend who revels in the name of Bobby aka Balwinder (Vinay). And he’s just acquired a new wife, Taani (Anushka), who’s mourning the untimely exit of an old love.
Tiny three-membered cast, instead of the standard full-scale Yashraj ‘baraat’. Middle-class homes and offices, instead of ornate palaces and Swiss chalets.
A hero who wears a thick moustache, black-framed spectacles, and pants which don’t fit. And a simple, unmade-up heroine, dressed, for the most part, in ‘salwaar kameez’ and ‘phulkari dupattas’. No, gulp, pastel chiffons. Could this really be Yashraj turning over a welcome new leaf ? Uh huh : the outlines of the characters are new, but the brush-strokes that fill in the whole, aren’t. In its telling, the few fresh touches in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ are overpowered by those that are all too familiar.
It opens with one of the oldest tricks in the book – dying dad asking hero to wed heroine. You’re still getting over that when the film whisks you off to Amritsar, where Surinder and Taani’s love story is destined to unfold. It begins well—they sleep sweetly in separate rooms, and swap such winsome exchanges as her saying ‘aap lucky ho ji, ki aap ko kabhi pyaar nahin hua’, with him replying, a tad poetically, ‘isse zyada pyar ki na toh mujhe aadat hai na zaroorat’.
Whenever SRK plays an average joe, he scores. Surinder Sahni is all set to be one of his most loved parts—his Punjabi ‘leheja’ and his quiet bashfulnesss is pitch-perfect. But superstars can’t be made to appear ill-dressed wimps who don’t know how to keep their women in the kitchen, when, of course, they are not being meek and pliant in the bedroom.
SRK’s double role arrives in the guise of Raj, and this version is very up to the Amritsar minute—skintight tee, ripped jeans, spiked hair. And there you have it, another creaky nostrum—dull office-going Surinder, or boisterous, brash Raj, what’s a Taani to do?
Anushka makes a confident debut, but there’s only so much they can do to keep us engaged for a long 2 hours 40 minutes. The rest of it is same old.
Yashraj set the gold standard for youthful romance back in 1995: ‘DDLJ’ retrieved the kind of lover that Hindi movies had lost to lust and violence. What we get in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ (I doubt if it will ever be shortened to ‘RNBDJ’), like in their inflated movies of the past couple of years, is a flurry of the ideas that have worked in the past. ‘Aap toh Dhoom 3 ho, ji’, says Raj, applauding Taani’s motorbike-riding skills.
And you cannot get more self-referential than having your hero say ‘yeh dilwala apni dulhaniya le hi jayega’: that’s seriously scraping the barrel.
‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ has some sparkling moments, featuring Surinderji Sahni. The rest is done that, seen this. Are there any new ideas left in the Yashraj chest? Now is the time to delve deep.
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already i had seen 10 times.this movie.it gives a tonic to me in my love life.
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anushka has become my favourite actress
love u anushka sharma "taani partner".u is the best actress in bollywood.Superb acting and great dancing in dance pe chance.wonderful taani partner.i luv u.not foget to suri, superb acting SRK.
Great Movie...anushka looks like a Barbie, I Watched it 24 times..!! I Love Taaniptner
i love you
both of them are looking very cute,they are looking very sweet couple........,
watched it 27 times now and still counting. can't get over it. beautiful masterpiece.
the role of surinder sahni you played is very nice
it was very intresting
i like the picture of sharukh because his love story is very wonderful
the veeeeeeeeeeeeeery good movie of bollywood rrrrrrrrrrrrrrreally you are the king of bollywood SRK
please looking and listen to rab ne bana di jodi songs
SRK is the King of bollywood,,,,atleast when it comes to emotions,sentiment,love..A good movie without any bad scenes, a family entertainment....Anushka has done a great job,,,she is really v.v.v.v.sexy soniya in punjabi dress.Appreciable!
i have watched 9 times RNBDJ....awseme movie
this filmrocksssssss!!!!!
Superb!!!!!!!!mind blowing!!!!!!!!!!nice beatiful moviE!!!! i hate ghajini
watched it 6 time already ....its the movie of teh decade
Srk i am big fan of yours. I like your dance,packs and your smile
Its a sweet movie. People going in to see larger than life heroes aka 5 feet actors sporting 8 packs will not enjoy it. But those who love simple movies would not be disappointed. The movie surely has its moments like anushka ridinga bike dhoom style or SRK framing his goodbye as 'hum hai rahi pyaar ke fir milenge chalte chalte' or SRK as mustaash clad surinder sahni saying 'ab samajh me aya mujhe 2 din se itna dard kyun ho raha hai, mujhe aapse pyar jo ho gaya hai'........its sweet and simple..... SRK has done it again !!!
i think rab ne bana di jodi is better then ghajini,bcoz amir khan cn't be sunny doel,hw 1.5 inches man is looking like a macho man,n through this movie i m going back to my previous 20 years like mithun's movie (like villion has doing some illegle steps with hero's wife n sister n girlfrnd n mother n father,and hero go for take revenge from him in all movie with masala of songs n action,conclusion is that ghajini is not for todays cinema,
its a nice movie....i liked it....srk was not fabulous but good,,,,he has played both characters very well,but i still liked the character of surinder much more than raj....new comer anoushka had lived up to the expectations...songs are average..adi has directed well.....guys go out and watch the movie people ask why v should watch this movie....i say cmon yaar its has srk in it.....go out and watch it...........its a cool movie..........worth watching once......
I agree 100% with this comment..."One of worse and Pathetic movie of Sharukh ever. I am 100% sure that all other good comments are paid by production house of this movie. Thrust me I saw this movie and whole theather was so mad after watching this movie...NO NO NO.....Dont waste your good time and money."
Thumbs down!! SRK's age shows up. I dont want to talk about 'Raj'. It cannot be comapred to DDLJ Raj. Generally I like SRK type TP movies and hate thrillers and action movies. But this movie couldn't get me involved at all. Just boring. Instead Ghajini was better atlest you get involved in the character of 'Sanjay'. Watch Ghajini guys!