Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Jodi No. 1

Hi all..

After a tiresome November with a pretty long working hours, it was time for me to have a break n go back home. We decided to go for a movie this weekend and it was SRK starring "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" - [means "A couple made by God!!"]

Below is my review of "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi"..

RAB NE BANA DI JODI

Genre: Romance/Comedy

Direction: Aditya Chopra

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak
Storyline:

A common man's yearning to express his love for his wife after their accidental marriage.

Bottomline:

SRK's versatility makes you watch it inspite of logical flaws and slow screenplay.

ShahRukh Khan join hands again with Yash Raj Films for yet another romantic movie "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi". My first thought of romantic movies from Yash Raj Banner is the likes of "Veer Zaara" which had the romance with a lot of sentiments going. But this one is a bit refreshing with humour being a part throughout the movie but sentiments are also there in it [After all it s Yash Raj Films!!]. Also no foreign locations like those in typical Yash Raj Films. The film rolls over in the midst of city of Amritsar.

Surinder Sahni [ShahRukh Khan] , a common middle-class man working for Punjab Power, is so attached to his work as he always attend his calls greeting "Punjab Power! Lighting up ur life!!"[Even he shows his pride on his job by having his scooter labelled Punjab Power and his bag spelling out "I Work for Punjab Power"]. He goes to attend the marriage of the daughter of one of his college professors. The bridegroom dies in an accident on the way to marriage and Surinder marries his professordaughter as it was the last wish of his teacher. The bride Tanni[Anushka] lives in a separate room in Suri's home and Suri tries to do everything that will make her happy. It was very difficult for Tanni to forget her fiance as it was a love marriage and she couldnt even think of loving another person even her husband, Suri.

At the time, Tanni sees a reality dance show ad like Jodi No 1 in Amritsar and joins for it. Suri gets the help of his friend Bobby [Vinay Pathak] to change himself [Moustache removed, Specs replaced by Coolers and formal dress to casuals!!] as a cool dude Raj who joins Tanni as her dance partner. Its really surprising how couldnt Tanni identify that Raj is her husband [A big logic flaw in the movie which director is justifying that Rab (God!) is the one who s starting a new love story for Suri and so due to his wish, Tanni couldnt identify Suri! Rubbish!!]. Whether Suri got back his love reciprocated from Tanni? How did Suri disguised[??] as Raj made it happen? What love story did God write for the couple he made?? The answers for these questions lies in the rest of the movie.

Shah Rukh Khan proves again with his acting that his success is just not due to any six-pack abs. Whether it may be yearning for love of his wife, staring all day the tiffin box which his wife gave or the transformation of Suri to Raj, SRK personifies the character in every slightest movement of his body. SRK is the big plus of this movie.

Anushka Sharma being a debutante does her work well but due to some inconsistencies in the portrayal of her character, she scores average in her debut performance.

Another refreshing character is Vinay Pathak. He makes us with giggles of laughter with his small pranks n dialogue delivery.

The music being taken care by Salim & Sulaiman Merchant was finely done but it missed something to make the songs to feature in top charts. 'Haule Haule' was sparkling with SRK act and 'Dance Pe Chance' was a foot tapping number. The "Om Shanti Om" type song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" had a good cinematography by Ravi. K.Chandran. "Thujme Rab" 's melody is soothing.

Much more was expected from director Aditya Chopra's come after 8 years. It was sloppy comeback for somebody who gave film like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge as his debut. But the name of Rab(God!) was taken each n every instance and Rab was always there as a justification of Addi Chopra's logical flaws.

If you are real lover of celluloid love stories, this is a really new look to it. You can watch this atleast for Shah Rukh as Surinder. For ones those who had faced love in their life, u can find few instances of resemblances in this movie.

The tagline says "There is an extraordinary love story in every ordinary jodi". But this is a normal story but surely not an extraordinary one.

Surely 3 out of 5 can be given for this film especially for Shah Rukh's portrayal of Suri.

Plus: SRK as Surinder Sahni

Minus: Simple story with logic errors, An as expected climax

Rating: 3/5 - Average

After this film s over while waiting for my bus, I saw a blind beggar taking his wife's hand as support and asking for alms in the bus stop.

There I saw the real love! After all filmy things cant ever match those in real!!