It does not kill your time, but you!. Review on Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

It was a just released movie then. The tickets for this movie were booked by one of my cousin when we were meeting after a long time. And she still is guilty and sad at it. It is probably the most awful movie I have ever seen in the last ten years.

I still cannot figure out why this movie was made in the first place. The story line was extremely weak, insipid, and amateurish and all us of to know the story goes something like this.

At the outset, two strangers Rikki (Abhishek) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta), meet while waiting for their respective fiancés at a railway station. Rikki is a Punjabi boy from Bhatinda who lives in Southall, while Alvira is a middle class Pakistani girl from Lahore who is more assimilated into the British culture.

The two happen to share a table in a café together and to kill the time they talk about their fictitious fiancés and how they met their partners-to-be. The one hates the “kale-kalute” (as mentioned in the movie) Indian rather Asian guys and the other is a western beauty lover. Basically both of them stay in the world of imagination and not only that, they are also the king and the queen of their world of Illusions. "It says that the greatest glory is the glory of illusion!"

Thus they are in their greatest glories. Almost  half of the movie dwells in imagination. And not to miss, the movie has Amitabh Bacchan as well as a guest appearance who emerges suddenly out of the blue singing “jhoom barabar jhoom….” which in fact is one of the most irritating part in the movie. With due respect to the Big B, wearing a captain Jack Sparrow lookalike dress doesn’t make him an adorable trump like Johnny Depp. It only aggravated the sufferings of those who braved to continue watching the movie.

They both do exchange the glorious ways in which they met their imaginary fiancés. There was no end to their imagination ranging from the Thames to the Taj…and their conversation was extremely juvenile as well. At least there should be some kind of logic behind something. Rikki starts by saying "When two lovers die, another two are born", as he fell in love with Anaida Raza, at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, the same night that Princess Diana, and Dodi Al-Fayed left the hotel to take their last journey together. Alvira says she met her fiancé, the dashing lawyer Steve Singh (Bobby Deol) at Madame Tussauds in London when he saved her from death by a falling Superman wax model. As if he is none other than Superman’s big brother!

The movie ends as the four of them pair themselves up, Rikki - Alvira and Steve – Laila. There is a song probably after every ten minutes in the movie…adding to the irritation.

The movie also stares Lara Dutta as ‘Laila’, the imaginary Anaida who is the only saving grace of the movie.