Charlie is such a jhaatu character yaa in Happy New year. Kitna ganda treat karta hai Mohini ko. Just coz she a Bar dancer? Katayi classist and condascending.
And mohini bhi usko bhaav de rahi hai just coz he speaks englis. 3 baar he tells her ki hai toh us jagah se na. What Farah Khan ya. Apart from that sable 1 dimensional characters hai.
Sabke*. Charlie n Mohini's love story is taken from dil se. In the song manwa lage, whenever they r together aag lag jaati hai, which is what happens in the song Dil se too. Whenever Shah n Manisha Koirala are together, thr is fire, explosion. Maybe it's the Farah Khan magic.
Happens the first time they come in contact too, in the Lovely song.
Peeps really love Farah n Shah, like they have gone to this limit for them 😭
The screenplay was really good. 5 ppl *spoilers* do a heist in between a world dance championship and they r so bad, ki pehle round mein out. With the diamonds. Plus baap ka revenge angle. On paper, twas good. Execution mein problem ho gaya.
Really liked Anupam's role also. The silent, bhola father, the scene where Grover(JS) takes his fingerprints and opens the safe n he can't do anything abt it is gooz.
Faltu ka nationalism daala hai, u don't feel it the way u shud feel it. There were several points in the story where I expected this wud happen n that didn't happen. Noice. They anticipated that bfr. And last mein when they r fighting ki vapas jaana hai ke nahi for the dance
And then they go back coz it's 'the right thing to do' and it works out also in their favor (as now authorities think Jackie Shroff ka ich fault hai) it's Srk stamp throughout. Neki kar, twill come back in unexpected ways.
Anurag Kashyap is a good actor.
The last twist of the diamonds in the cup was also nice. But overall something was missing. Kaafi jagah cringe hai. AB was miscast as Nandu. He can't do mumbai chawl roles, just like RK can't look poor (Brahmastra lol) And when AB licks his own puke, it was 🤮.
There's this scene whr AB removes his full clothes to open the wall door to support his height. And when Shah n Boman enter in, they r shocked to see AB like that, and unfluttered, Shah tells Boman woh jo bhi pehne ya na pehne woh uski personal choice hai and twas just 😘😘
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What's goooood is Shah plays 2 different characters who wear same dresses, but their body language is so different that u can easily make out who is who.
Farah Khan peaked with her storytelling in this song. She has always been a storyteller. Whether it's Aana mere pyaar ko na tum, ruk ja o dil deewane or this one. There is a mini story going on in the songs.
Watched Om Shanti Om. There are so many coooool observations na..uff. But firstly, Arjun Rampal ki jagah koi aur lete toh picture aur chalti. But shah bhi na dosti mein sigh. The bodyguard who plays one of Mukesh Mehra's
bodyguard was actually Shah's real life bodyguard at that time, Yaseen. The guy who is sleeping on the railey as Om makhija is giving his speech is screenplay writer Mushtaq Shaikh (who also wrote MHN and HNY and 2 books on shah).
Watched Devdas. Poetry in motion. Reading a book whr it says ppl at that time said Bhansali got distracted by the sarees, big sets and general opulence and fked the script. That it wouldn't run. Gauri was the only one who was convinced it would fly. And se all know what happened.
Watching it today again after 13 yrs made me see there's richness in every frame. In terms of emotions, maturity, dialogues, dances and SAREES and SETS. I was in IXth std when it was released and I recall on the annual day our class was doing dola se dola song. I wasn't selected.
And the WHOLE school was excited to see the dance. I and begged and fought with the teacher to select me until she had to. Needless to write, the song was a hit. It was an only girls dance but the boys also went mad over it and requested mam to include them. Kuch nahi toh