Monday 7 July 2008

"We are JUST GOOD FRIENDS"_JTYJN Reviewed

Kuchh Kuchh Hotha Hain (1999)

Anjali (Kajol): "pata hain Rupatbi aaj maine Rahul ko fir se hara diya"
RupatBi (Himani Shivpuri): "Rahul....Uss namakool ka naam bhi mat lo"
Anjali (Kajol): " kyuuuun? woh mera yaar hain"
RupatBi (Himani Shivpuri): "Yaar kab Dildar ban jayega pata bhi nahi chalega"
Anjali (Kajol): "Kaun Rahul, Chhee!!!"


Dil To Pagal Hain (1997)

Nisha (Karisma) to Rahul (Shahrukh): " Woh kya hain na Rahul (Again Rahul!), hum
dono ek dusare ke etane achhe dost hain ke humein ek dusre ki aadat pad gayee hain"

Meine Pyar Kiya (1989)

Jeevan (Mohnish Behl) to Prem (Salman) : "Hey Prem! yeh 4 din ki dosti kafi rang layee hain"
Background Music " Ruru Ruruururu Ruru...." Or "Hey!! Hey!!! Hey !! Hey!! " Jeevan to everyone: " Kyun dosto!! ek ladka aur ek ladki sirf achhe dost ho sakte hain?"


Ok!! So this is the moral of the Hindi Cinema. That is "Ek MARD aur ek AURAT kabhi bhi SIRF acche dost nahi ho sakte"

back to 21st Century:
Jane tu....ya Jane na! (2008)

Aditi aka Meow (Genelia): "Hey RATS, girlfriend aa gayee to kya dosto ko bhul jayega?"

But wait a minute! Who is DOST? and who is GIRL FRIEND here?


Well that's the whole story of JTYJN, Abbas Tyrewala, a highly reputed and respected writer from bollywood ( and why not he has, Makdi, Maqbool, Munnabhai, Main hu na! under his sleeves) , An AMIR KHAN Production, Mansoor Khan (maker of QSQT, Jo Jeeta.., Josh ) It can't get bigger than this.


And what we got "We are JUST GOOD FRIENDS".


The style of story telling is straight away picked up from "Chalte Chalte" where a bunch of friends narrates the story of Meoow-RATS couple(how awfully Cute!).


Aditi aka Meow(Genelia) and Jai aka RATS(Imran) hug each other at an interval of 3 minutes everyday, the BOY can hop on to GIRL'S bedroom at a stoke of midnight, he can do anything for her (provided there is no blood shed involved). Jai is Rajput from Ranjhod but unlike other Rajputs he is strickly against violence. Jai's modern day mom played by Ratna Shah (she is almost in same avtaar of Maya Sarabhai from Sarabhai Vs Sarbhai) and dead Rajput father played by Naseeruddin Shah with "Hum Panch" twist.


Jai's mom, Aditi's parents, Aditi's obnoxious weed lit' bro (played intelegently by Pratiek Babbar (Smita Patil's son) ) and their gang belives that Jai and Aditi are madly in love with each other, But hey wait a minute...They are just good friends, and to prove others wrong (or rather to prove themselves right) they decide to find out love for each oher.


Aditi finds Meghana (Manjari Phadnis) for Jai and Aditi gets Sushant (Dunno his name) but soon they figure out the TRUTH which both of them were denying all this time. yeah they are made for each other. After a dramatic climax (or should I say pathetic climax? _ which is again very much picked up from Chalte Chalte) our Tom and Jerry meets.


I neither find the movie cute nor fresh. What I like is the chemistry amongst the main lead and supporting cast. They compliment each other and act quite real (for a change I found Arbaz and Sohail Khan (as Bagheere and Bhaloo) very funny). The Ranjhod Rajput twist (or trick) did not work that well. But still those 3 conditions to prove a Rajput are quite crazzzy!


There are few glimpses of Tyrewala here and there but in a whole it's an average entertainment. The new guy Imran looks Danial Radcliff (Harry Potter) reincarnated in Khan Family. He is too chocalate face for today's cinema and I belive any new actress will look older than him (exception Amrita Rao :-) Genelia is as loud as she is in any telugu movie (thankfully here role demands that loudness),


I just loved the music of the movie. But it doesnt come as blissful in the movie. As most of the songs appeared one after the another in the first half itself with absolutely no situation. Paresh Rawal as Inspector Waghmare, and Jayant Kriplani-Anuradha Patel as Aditi's parents are quite lovable so does their GANG (Rotlu, Jigness, Bombs and Shaleen) don't know their names


As the title suggests I am also confused about the movie. Go and make your decision. Is this is good movie? ...Jane tu ...ya Jane na!

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