Dilllllll….Dhadakne do !! :)

Dil Dhadakne Do….lab-dup, lab-dup, lab-dup… :)

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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 :)