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Review:
'King Khan', the Mogul of Bollywood is back with 'Rab ne bana di
jodi'
The latest Sharukh Khan flick "Rab ne bana di jodi", Bollywood's
romantic drama of the year 2008 fulfills the speculations as
anticipated. It is a clichéd Bollywood movie with prominence to romantic
emotions and sentiments to the max where the obvious logical flaws have
been left in intentionally as the entire plot is based on it.
Surinder Sahni played by Sharukh Khan is a simple middle-class man
working for a private firm in Amritsar. Surinder is a kind, polite, well
organized and loving man who finds love and happiness in Taani (played
by new comer Anushka Sharma) whom he accidently gets married to.
The quiet beginning, where the newly married couple enters the house
unrecovered from the shock of their unexpected marriage and the sequence
of scenes showing Tanni's suffocation following few unfortunate
incidents in her life, arouses curiosity. Surinder tries out all sorts
of magic to change Tanni and of course gives his best to impress and woo
her but fails in all his attempts. This sort of a character is apt for
King Khan and he portrays Surinder with ease and to perfection. The
entire story has been scripted for Sharukh knowing what his fans expect
from him. His previous flick 'Om Shanthi Om' was one such and 'Rab ne
bana di jodi' is not an exception to this.
Surinder discovers Tanni's taste and figures out that his personality
will not impress a woman of her caliber and decides to disguise him not
only with a totally different get-up of a 'cool-dude' but also changes
his behaviors and mannerisms accordingly. This is an essential twist
without which the movie could have slightly turned off-beat however the
forth-coming scenes suffer a series of discontinuity after the arrival
of stylish Khan named Raj. Scenes involving Raj are intriguing but the
relay from Raj to Surinder and vice versa are bit abrupt, perhaps this
is the technique which has been used to pin the audience to their seats,
keeping them stimulated with anxiety.
Melodrama is very common in Bollywood films and it is utilised to
emote. To show this in movies, usually some exaggerated and
superfluously touching expressions of actors are captured for the
tune/lyrics of the background songs. Melodrama is very captivating when
it is included into the climax or shown to depict a change in a
character or the story itself.
It has been used in this movie to portray the leading lady's choice
of true love. It falls right before the climax in the song "Tujh Mein
Rab Dikhta Hai" (I see God in you) with the timber voice rendered by
Shreya Ghoshal.
This song and the last few scenes of this movie will be the most
memorable scenes of this movie. Anushka Sharma is a debut, but no where
in the movie does she gives the impression of a newcomer, she has
professionally done justice to her role without any flaws just like an
experienced actress. With the success of this film she is sure to root
herself firmly in Bollywood.
The credit should go to the Music directors Salim and Sulaiman
Merchant whose music perfectly fits into the mood of the story and the
songs "Haule Haule" and "Dance pe chance" are beautiful compositions and
perfect treat to the ears.
The Yash Raj films production house was desperately in need of a
'Hit' movie after the disastrous flops of their previous movies "Laaga
Chunari Mein Daag" and "Aaja Nachle" , and now they have comeback with
two commercial successes "Rab ne bana di jodi" and "Dostana" in 2008. As
"Rab ne bana di jodi" was produced for some commercial values, they have
refrained from experiments in the plot and strictly abided the success
formula "No logic just entertainment".
If you are after films that give lot of food for thought, stay away
from this movie but if you are a person who can be satisfied with some
hardcore entertainment and emotions of love then you won't be
disappointed. "Rab ne bana di jodi" is worth a watch.
- Karthiga Rukmanykanthan |
