gokul0801
I happen to Netflix this the other night as I hadn't seen a Bollywood movie in a while. This movie is another long, epic, dramatic love saga set in the backdrop of London and Kashmir. Couldn't Mr. Yashji come up with something original for his swan song? Granted it was shot beautifully with some nice song and dance sequences, we have seen this many times before in Yash Raj romantic, fantasy movies like DDLJ, K3G, KHNH, Mohabattein to name a few. While the movie kept my interest for the first hour or so, it completely fell apart in the second half with its unrealistic storyline, bizarre 'twists', illogical situations and just downright stupidity exhibited by the actors. The whole premise of Katrina praying to God time and time again to fulfill her wishes at different points in her life, in exchange for something she loves/likes is just too weak and unconvincing. Shah Rukh's freak accident towards the end of the first half leads our leading lady to pray to God to save his life in exchange for their love and a promise to never see him again. WTF?? This makes no sense and the writer/director of this movie is just insulting the intelligence of the viewer. We are to believe an affluent, independent girl in modern day London cant make decisions of her own and is making silly pacts with Jesus regarding matters of the heart. Instead of helping her love interest recover from the accident and be supportive when he most needed her, she abandons him as she believes in a bizarre way that being with him will only endanger his life. *facepalm*. So Mr. Khan who till now has been doing part-time jobs waiting tables at restaurants or making ends meet singing on the streets of London, decides to move back to India and become an Army officer, specializing in diffusing bombs, because of his silly belief that only death can bring him closer to his girl. *facepalm again*It all goes downhill from here. Enter Anushka Sharma, the sexy but annoying reporter with an obnoxious attitude, who happens to stumble upon Shah Rukh's diary of his love story in London, is now fascinated with him and wants to desperately work on a documentary about Khan, the now famous bomb diffuser in Kashmir. Overnight, she is sent on this project and soon after, she is seen gyrating in skimpy shorts with the army officers in the cold, frigid mountains of Ladakh. Scene after scene of Khan diffusing bombs like its a piece of cake while Ms. Anushka treating this project as a fun vacation, connecting with him frivolously and talking about his love story, is just cringe inducing. During this process she also happens to fall in love with Khan. oh boy.. Can we expect a semblance of realism from YRF films? This is 2014, not 1994.The final act of the movie is just tedious and put me to sleep. There is another freak accident that our poor hero has to endure, following which he suffers from selective amnesia. He forgets about Anushka and thinks he just awoke following the trauma from the first accident. Katrina comes back in his life and a long, melodramatic climax ties up the loose ends. The only sensible dialog is Anushka putting some sense into Katrina, telling her to stop with her silly pacts with God and go, be with the man she loves. Shah Rukh's acting was fine. I found him tolerable compared to his usual overacting. While his forte has always been romance whether be with Kajol, Rani, Preity and now Katrina, he has obviously aged and should take on more mature roles like the army officer he plays in the second half. Ms.Kaif is smoking hot, but her constant wooden expressions in some of the emotional scenes didn't do justice to the role. As for Anushka, perhaps a bit subtlety in her acting would have made her less annoying. Cinematography was the best and A.R.Rahman's music, while not his best, was still melodious. With this, I hope we have seen the last of the formulaic epic love sagas from Yash Raj Films. This isn't Yashji's masterpiece. Sorry. far from it. I believe Dil To Pagal Hai was his last good movie. He lost his touch since, and his attempt to make the tried and tested love stories set in foreign locations along with the stereotypical portrayal of NRIs in London or New York, and characters to appeal to the younger audience, just falls flat and is a waste of time for the audience.
Sandeep Gupta
Jab Tak Hai Jaan. It's not good because it's last indulgent attempt of Yash Chopra. It is good because Yash Chopra had the ability to adapt his love stories to changing times. His hero has still the old soul of undying love but one of his heroine is straight from the generation from 21st century. Every love story has a villain who does not like lovers to be close to each other, here he is God himself. The story has three acts, first riding on confident performance of Shahrukh Khan, second act riding on soulful energy of Anushka Sharma but third act is where writer and directors find themselves in confused state and let the story fill with few silly twists. Movie works because it has soul, neat characterization, uncluttered screenplay and nice background score but it is let down by average work by A.R.Rahman and Gulzar in songs by their standards and the average performance by Katrina Kaif which could have been a killer performance if played by some better talent. Nevertheless, it is a nice love story to enjoy once for sure.
hikerhetav
Yash Chopra- The name itself describes the thought provoking story teller through the incomparable direction.The last but not the least cannot be discarded without seeing this.Coming to the film:The film is romantic and some thriller type.This one is too a triangular love story like his previous bests like Silsila and Dil Toh Pagal Hai. But this is totally different than both the previous ones.I was some excited though because this was his last one and his previous last was unforgettable Veer Zaara which kept a milestone for him.The direction is clean and tending to be perfect.He tried some new contents in his last and some are effective such as thriller and seat- edging ones scenes and some are not.The first 20-30 minutes are a bit slow but then it starts like a never before movie.And that's why the film is kept somewhat longer.Every part of cinematography is a bit perfect and smartly taken.This credit goes to Anil Mehta. Editing part must have been taken seriously.Story has been written by Aditya Chopra who might have given his best but the film where goes as a backdrop is the story itself only.The casting was too good and effective.All the characters have given their best and none of them is wasted.Even the part timers were good.Shah Rukh Khan was like an underdog till now.His acting in his last few ones were like a burnt hot dog.But in this one he proved to be a great romantic ideal for others.His romance is still young at this age and immortal.He here wins the hearts of many through his acting as well as some dialogues too.Another Katrina Kaif is soul reliever.After her many wasted films she is worth seeing deleting her so called mask of like a Barbie girl.She had tried of being natural actor and a natural girl in the movie.Her dialogues are few but acting is acceptable.Last but unforgettable Anushka Sharma is sweet,chubby and a freedom accepted girl.Her new scenario is encasing.The music department was handled over to music maestro AR Rahman. He has and therefore given a tremendous music with the best like Challa and Ishq Shava. The background score is also up to the beat.The Ishq dance was a marvelously shot and that credit goes to Vaibhavi Merchant.The award winning lyricist Gulzar has written heartfelt lyrics. One and only last thing this last one was truly a short of masterpiece but really closed to his own heart. Yash Chopra will be unforgettable movie maker.
Yousuf Hassan
I knew this would be awesome, after watching around half of the film, I understand the story is different and epic, nice plot, great direction and awesome acting of everyone. I like the chemistry between Katrina and Shahrukh, this is amazing, in this movie you cannot imagine their age difference. Everything is nice. Hope I will see it again, but always watch in good quality video, otherwise you will miss some special scene. Shahrukh is brilliant as well as before. The songs are amazing. Specially I like the dance part of this movie and how Shahrukh propose Katrina, this is awesome, I never seen this kind of scene before to any Hindi film.
