May 03, 2007 12:58 PM
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Ram Gopal Verma has never been my favorite. I don’t even know the names of all his films and being a die hard Yash Chopra- Karan Johar romantic films fan, my heart has been attuned to romance and even the word “suspense” makes me feel uncomfortable. I remember how the world went gaga over Darna Mana Hai and Darna Zaroori Hai and I just sat back home watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai for the 63rd time!
Romance as I already said interests me, and if it is not-so-normal and hatkeromance, I go running to watch it! : P (typically Indian naaa!)
Nishabdwas in news for weeks and surprisingly not for Amitabh Bachchan BUT Jiah Khan! So all interested I rented a CD (see I can possibly not watch a RGV film in cinema, my heart!) and sat down watching it. The first scene had me in splits… nooo I am not mentally imbalanced! This scene with AB standing at the tip of a cliff trying to attempt to jump and remembering his past and all that lead him to this. Why I laughed? Well the music… between such an intense scene RGV adds some suspense music as if it were a ghost of AB or something! : P
The movie (as u all would be aware of by now) is about a middle aged man’s falling in love with his daughter’s friend who comes to their home for a vacation. Amitabh Bachchan plays the man, his wife Revati, the daughter’s friend is Jiah Khan and a young daughter 18 years old.
After the movie finished, I had proved it yet again to myself that RGV films are not my cup of tea,BUT this time he did touch me for some reasons. So here’s listing some aspects of the film where it proves to be a genius’s work…
Old man and young dame… You would all agree to me when I point out that Indian society is no more alien to this concept. We all may go on denying it, but haven’t we all seen middle aged men sitting in coffee shops with young girls?? Or older bosses trying to impress the younger ladies in their team with brighter smiles and hellos?? One of the many reasons traced for this is the financial security that an older man can make a young girl feel. We may call the girl’s beauty or the man’s lust as the reason. But the movie traces the real reason for this, which is the psyche of the middle aged man who sees himself nearing old age and death, and in his attempt to escape it, he tries to be with younger people to feel young himself.
“Hey love is showing on you”… hahaha… this was something that a friend of mine said once just weeks after I had begun seeing him. It does show! And in the film THANKFULLY it doesn’t show in song sequences with hundreds of junior artists dancing with their clothes changing with each stanza. The obvious reaction to the pleasant change in the man’s life is laughter. He has been living in an isolated place with his old and boring wife, who just keeps yelling all the time. Now that he feels the thrills and chills of an 18 year old, smiles and laughter are bound to flow! And so he laughs…
Hum jawan hain, hum haseen hain, humko khud par yakeen hai… Jiah as a character is a girl who is young, vibrant, educated and good looking. She would not take any non sense from anyone. She has guys running around her. If she loves, she dares to confess and doesn’t care for the world! Her happiness matters more to her than anyone else… now isn’t that SO true?? So close to real life?? So like us??? (for me even more, her bf’s name is same as mine! ). After all we are not a part of the gone generation for whom life was all about living for others? I mean why? Why do we need to? Isn’t our happiness as important to us as anyone else’s… after all we get to live only once!
Having mentioned all that, the movie had a very average ending! I am glad to say that RGV lost to Karan Johar on this one, in KANK, KJ broke the conventional getting back to spouses turn and made the lovers meet despite all the oppositions. The movie flopped because of this end, but I am sure many of us were convinced that life is like this and not so ideal always! But RGV makes Jiah go away and the man return to his family saying “ek din zaroor marunga” (one day I’ll die!)
