Dil Dhadakne Do….lab-dup, lab-dup, lab-dup… :)
Hi me darlings'!!! :),
Dil Chahta Hai- Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani,
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, 2001, Benchmark in Indian Cinema
Zindagi na milegi dobara- Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani,
Zoya akhtar, Reema Kagti, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, 2011, National and International blockbuster
And now we have…
Dil Dhadakne Do- Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Reema Kagti,
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, 2015……….decide for yourself… :)
Lets talk about it then. Like the previous flicks of the
Akhtar Bro-sis Combo, one very strong point in the movie is the consummate
star-cast that doesn’t waver a single bit throughout the 170 mins that the
movie runs.
The reason why they made this movie as also why I wanted to
see it, was obviously the expectation to engender and witness respectively, the
magic created in the aforementioned flicks.
But yaar, magic doesn’t happen as a rule. It definitely
didn’t happen here. Even the music was utterly unimpressionable and the songs
[except the title track which comes only in the end when we are in the process
of leaving the hall moving cautiously towards the radiant “Exit” signs…..all
our senses alert, directed towards preventing ourselves from stumbling in the
darkness n falling flat on our faces. :)))] were nothing but a painful impediment
in the flow of the story.
I for one would have shelved it as an okay one time watch,
but contrary to that here I am, writing about it.
Why? I ask myself…
There was something, which intrigued me, and I was at the
risk of getting my intractable pain abdomen back if I didn’t come here and talk
to you about it. :)))
Lets start with the good things first. As I said the movie
rested on the strong shoulders of its awesome cast, especially Ranveer. PC
babe, Shefali, Farhan all were par excellence. Priyanka and Ranveer as brother-sister
too came on as pro. For Shefali to play Priyanka’s mom and for Priyanka to play
Ranveer’s sister were gutsy decisions which the ladies pulled off flawlessly.
Anil Kapoor was also very endearing. I am sure he was having
difficulty stopping himself from dancing and jumping with a shove of his hair,
screaming ‘Jhakkaas’or managing so very little body movement all through the
movie. :)))
Zoya had to manage a Celeb Cast of 25 people, crew of 150,
all of the heavy duty equipment with THE Bull Mastiff on board the cruise where
in they spent a month and a half to complete the shoot. The idea of cruise and
the narration of the story with Aamir Khan’s voice-over, was refreshing. Yu ki Mediteranian me tairte tairte movie banaa daali :)))
Ranveer surpassed himself with his subtle and accurate
performance. He and Anil Kapoor were in a mutual admiration club, sticking
together so much during the shoot so as to make the women folk jealous. :)
Ranveer says he wanted to become a ‘Hero’ as a child, and for him the
definition of Hero was Anil Kapoor. :)
What actually hit me was the picture of the modern age human
behaviour and mentality that stared at me blatantly through the screen. Is it
what we have in store for us? Is the society going to be this way? And believe
me, though the reviews call it the story of a dysfunctional Punjabi family, I
found it completely contrary. They were a very normal-for-the-present-times
family.
You’d be shocked and may probably even laugh if you see
Ranveer touching the feet of his parents in the movie. In the garb of
modernization, open-ness, ‘individual space’, are we sadly enough walking back
towards the stone age? Is it not prudent to have a certain degree of mutual
respect rather than speaking out your mind all the time? I don’t know…..
I felt proud for a moment, of Indian culture and human
values that have been inculcated into us since ages, and felt sad in
anticipation and fear of it all getting lost eventually. We are probably the
last generation following those social and family norms. I hope I am wrong. :( The
movie clearly projects the confusion, chaos and clashes between the old and the
new school of these norms.
Achchha lemme give u a simile. Lemme take you back in time….
Remember Bapu’s 1983 movie “Wo Saat Din”? It is such a
relief when Padmini decides to carry on with her marriage. Aur door kyu jaanaa,
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 1999 super-flick, ‘Hum dil de chuke sanam’?? I am sure
most of the women audiences would’ve come out of the halls with tears of relief
and ‘Awww’ seeing Aishwarya back with Ajay Devgan.
Here we see Priyanka wanting
a divorce on grounds of ‘incompatibility’ and we are convinced she should get
the divorce asap. And why not? Everyone has a right to decide who he/she wants
to spend his/her life with.
Par baba is sab me bahut locha ho raha hai. Tu nahi aur
sahi…aur nahi aur sahi…is this ok? :)
Fir what is right what is wrong? Bheri bheri dipphicult to
decide you see…. :/
In the process, one thing is clear though, that
relationships are becoming flimsy, our tolerance is decreasing….we are less
ready to work hard on keeping the relationships alive and run for easier
options like freeing ourselves out of it. But we forget what this will lead to
as regards the social framework in the long run.
Apna and the future generations for that matter, ka toh toh
ab Bhagwan hi maalik hai bhau, nai kya? :) yu ki Global Warming jitna vadda
issue hai ye toh :/
Khair mai bhi kahaa ki kahaa pahuch jaati hu, by God ki
kasam!! :)
Its safer to just take everything as it comes.
And ofcourse,
Har dil dhadakna chahta hai,
Toh
Har Dil Dhadakne Do…… :)
So people, go watch the movie and enjoy!!
Lots of luv from me here at Page-3!! Cheerio….byebye….and ‘Take
gud care of yourself’- Amitabh ishtyle :)
