So I went to watch 8-11 PM show, for some reason I messed up. We thought show is gonna start at 7:10 PM. So we hurried up and went to multiplex, reached at 7:10. To our surprise there was a HUGE line up. We were do damn disappointed that we are going to miss first 20-25 min, but then to our surprise we were half an hour early :P Theater got house full before the movie started, and few of the guys entered the theater and then they brought the management inside to get them few seats but unfortunately they had to go back.
Ok, now about the movie. First quarter focuses on Devan (Salman) and Anushka (Kat) love story and how Kat's father (Boman Irani) hates Devan. Then Devan has to go to London to his brothers as his dad passes away. Then it is all about 3 brothers, their love and hate relationship. Kat comes and goes for few minutes in second half. `Very simple story, family story' yes that is true. To be honest, there is not one point in movie (except like 20-25 min) where u feel like "Oh!! What is gonna happen now??" There is not much which keeps you stay bounded to your seat, but at the same time you never feel bored or anything, you never look at your watch to see how long it has been. A decent enjoyable movie for time pass. Dont want to reveal much about scene details.. so yea Acting movie focuses on Salman, but who steals the show? Yes it is Anil Kapoor. Damn!! Ghai been working with him from more than 20 years (Meri Jang 1985) and he is Ghai's laadla so he knew how to extract the best out of him. He suffers from William's syndrome disease, and o boy! What acting he did. Simply astonishing. There are a lot of "awwww" scene and lot of scene which can make your eyes wet. Again, I don't want to describe which scene gets you emotional, but second half is totally stolen by Anil. Salman did REALLY GOOD acting; will probably get nominated for best actor, but there are still 2 biggies to come RNBDJ and Ghajini, Aamir or SRK will probably bag that award. Zayed's acting is so so..at few instance you feel like o boy! How did he pull this off and at few points you are like.. ok :/ O ya, girl who played Zayed's girlfriend, she is damn hot. Zayed and her are shown lip locking and there is bedroom scene with her as well. Kat's acting i found to be decent. At least better than her other movies in which she is there to show pretty face. In this movie, not only she looked gorgeous (out of all her movies so far, she looks most beautiful in this one), she also did justice with her character. Song sequence Tu Meri Dost Hai (Considering how melodious song is, this one had the weakest choreography.. they showed Sallu and Kat flying in air) Shano Shano Zayed's entry (choreography was simply amazing) Mastam Mastam .. at the end of the Mastam, there is interval Tu Muskura & Manmohini (together) gives Goosebumps; Tu Muskura is short, just 1 paragraph Manmohini follows right after Tu Muskura, and its shorter than CD version Zindagi (in 2 parts) situational song, movie goes thru as they show this song Dil Ka Rishta (climax) acting is mind blowing I saw few people's comments like songs are put in random order and have no relevance to the story. That is so not true. Songs go hand in hand with the movie and are very well put together and very well choreographed and picturized. Money is spent on sets blindly... Music (don't worry I wont write pages and pages praising the music) / background score - Short Alaap at the beginning of the movie `Shut Up sa re ga ma' during Anil's entry, showing that he is such a genius classical singer than he can pick any word and sing classical Background music when Anil plays with ball with his friends (Bala etc) Background music at Boman's first party (in which Devan is insulted) Tu Muskura cello plays in background at so many instances Dil Ka Rishta instrumental followed by `Happy Bday Gaynesh' 4-5 min instrumental (that should have been on CD) Oh also, throughout the movie Anil has this little instrument which he keeps playing, it sounds soo nice.. don't know what is name of that instrument Shano Shano is slightly different from CD version they focus on more on "Tuuu" .. and there is one additional line .. it starts like "Tu Tu Tu Atke Atke Kinne Latke De Ke Bulae Tu Tu " Then another line, then "Andar Anadar Beech Samundar Dubki Khae Tu Tu Tu.. Shano Shano" Choreography of this song is so amazing, I found this song to be ordinary before going to the movie, but i am so loving it now. Melody of all the songs at the end/credits (just like Om Shanti Om) pretty good.. Rahman is also shown in black suit for 3-4 seconds: D (this could have also been on CD) Honestly, music is so grand.. and plays a huge part of the movie. Seems like Ghai got another hit in his bag with Rahman's help (Just like Taal). During one of the interview, Anil mentioned that singing or his picutrization on classical singing was the most challenging part and i did notice that. They move the camera around few times when he sings that sargam.. In short, I loved the movie. If I compare, this is Ghai's best work after Pardes (1997). Yes, I like the movie more than Taal. There were also people who didn't like it. Guy sitting in row behind us, was making comments like `movie is shit' during interval and when the movie ended, he was like I want my money back.. I felt like punching him on the face. But majority of people who were coming out of theatre said they liked it. You can enjoy this movie only in theater, as music, set, location, cinematography etc everything is so grand and beautiful Movie definitely deserves some awards, especially for Best supporting Actor Anil Kapoor (if he doesn't win this, i will be so disappointed) Best music director AR Rahman (Background score no, I think JA had better BGM) Best lyricist Gulzar best Female playback singer - Alka Yagnik (Tu Muskura) Best choreography Shamik Davar or Ahmed Khan Best cinematography Kabir Lal Rating 7.5/10
