Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Given that I was so excited by the promo of the movie, what would one expect of me but to watch it the very first day. However, nothing on those lines ever materialized. Thanks to all the pre-reviews that linked this movie being a Chopra family remake of an already poor Johar movie 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna'.

Though it was almost a year's gap between the release of these 2 movies, the shock of KANK was huge. That said, I did give Shaad Ali (the director, also credited for 'Saathiya' and 'Bunty Aur Babli') a chance by watching the movie a few months later. Am I kind or what? :)

Well, given my low expectations and all that, the movie did manage to still disappoint me in a few departments. However, the positive point about it is the movie had some bad luck too. The story was different and very sweet too.

The failure of the movie can be attributed to perhaps the following few factors:

1. An over dose of many similar looking YRF releases.
2. The false hype of JBJ being a remake of KANK.
3. Poor screenplay and equally poor direction. The movie should have been crisp and not unnecessarily elongated to fill those painfully long 132 minutes.

As said, the music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy was decent and would fair an overall rating of 3.5 with a special mention of the song 'Kiss of love' and 'Bol Na Halke'.

You can find more promos here.

think M Rating: 3.0/5.0

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I just couldn't resist myself from posting a blog for promo for this movie. It's an awesome trailer with everyone - Abhishek, Preity, Bobby, Lara leaving an impression!

Don

Not anybody can fit into AB's shoes and this take off on Don has proved it right. After all, 'AB ban-naa mushkil hi nahi, naa-mumkin hai' :).


But, let's admit that Farhan Akhtar did a good job at making another Don. It's just that SRK falls short of trying to fit in AB's shoes. Kareena might look beautiful but she has to learn a lot in acting department. Priyanka is good but Zeenat's Roma was different. Boman Irani is a good actor but Iftikhar had his own chemistry working in 1978's Don. Only Om Puri was the closest match to the old Om Shivpuri character.

There would be definitely surprise for viewers who have seen the earlier Don. There would be disappointment too, especially when you meet SRK's version of Vijay.


Story: Do I really need to write anything in this section? :-)
But if you still want it, read it over here.

Definitely, I would give 4.0 to Farah Khan's choreography on the song 'Khaike Paan Banaras Waala'. 3.5 to Farhan Akhtar, 3.0 to Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for their effort in music department, 2.5 to SRK and rest.

The official site for the film is here.

Rating: 3.0/5.0