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8/10
Who says Rab Ne is Boring!!!!Go Watch It!!!!!
12 December 2008
Well...Inspite of all the reviews going around of Rab Ne being clichéd,sluggish and what not,the movie according to me is top notch.I would give it a 8 on 10 "jeee".Admitted I adore SRK, but even if you are not a fan you would invariably become one by the time the end titles start rolling.And if u still believe even after watching Chak de and Rab Ne that SRK is good only playing Raj and he is no good actor,then forget it!!!U must be having serious,serious reservations against the actor. Swades,Chak De and now Rab Ne.His performance in Rab Ne is right up there and no other actor could portray the character of Surinder with such élan as SRK did. Well I've heard SRK say in some interview prior to Rab ne release of how his previous 6 Yashraj Films had contributed in making him 90% superstar. Well,now you could make it 7 in a row and YRF has made him 100% superstar. The Yahraj,SRK saga continues and it is now in the form of its life. Aditya Chopra after a historic DDLJ,a mediocre Mohabbatein is back with Rab Ne.It doesn't get bigger and better than Rab Ne.Well after watching this film you would curse yourself on how Adi betrayed all the Indiam movie lovers by directing just 3 films in the last 14 years.How rich could Indian cinema have been had he directed a few more gems ala Rab Ne.

C'mon Adi..We would want to see you in the director's chair rather than producing those horrific movies Roadside Romeo.

Darr,DDLJ,DTPH,Mohabbatein,Veer Zaara,Chak De and now Rab Ne.SRK is back with YRF.

What is it that makes this combo churn out the most memorable movies we would ever watch on the silver screen year after year.

Rab Ne inspite of being a good 2 1/2 hour long movie rivets you in every single frame.It is a movie which would take you into a different world,a world of Surinder Sahni.As promised by the makers one would identify themselves with the protagonist,feel for him,live with him and when u start living with the character and forget everything around u know pretty well that the film is working big time.

A simple love story where every scene is so convincingly shot that one wonders on how the shooting was completed in just 47 days and the script written in 12 days. It would be immature of me to even comment about SRK's performance.Anushka Sharma, Well she couldn't have asked for more.And she performed with such confidence that would have made even the likes of the Kajols and Madhuris proud Vinay Pathak enters the big league as well and we will now start seeing him taking center stage in the more prominent movies.

Little moments from this film leave such a lasting impression.Be it the scene on the dining table with the rose,The back ground tune and the score of "Haule Haule" being played intermittently at regular intervals for little triumphs of Suri, Taania greeting Suri's friends on the Reception night,the Holi scene,the "Yellow Tiffin Box",the Biryani thing,The sorry episode to name a few.You would yearn for Taania to unite with Suri and not elope with Raj.

"Inspite of loving the character "Raj" all these days in DDLJ,KKHH and so many other movies we start disliking him and rather feel for the Surinder and would want him to succeed in his love.That is where the movie succeeds big time." Admitted it gets a bit dull in the middle with the dance episodes and all but u would when the entire 2 1/2 hours revolves around just 2 characters.But still the movie remains afloat thanks to all those wonderful little moments that are spread throughout.

Agreed it is no DDLJ,no KKHH but still you would not want to miss it.

Go watch it!!!!
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7/10
OLLO disappoints!!!
5 December 2008
A film with a star cast that boasts of the multi talented Paresh Rawal,Abhay Deol(many people might not think highly about him but I have been a keen follower of all his films,right from his debut to the more recent Manorama Six Feet Under and they are all such wonderful films.He may not have the star value as the the actors from his clan "The Deols" possess And what do the Sunny's and the Bobby's have...Well God knows!!!But this guy, I feel is the only person who can live a role in the Deol clan,Darmendra included. He is more of an offbeat,a thinking, a Rahul Bose kind of actor and I have always been quite fascinated by most of his movies,Ek Chalis Honeymoon Travels to name a few). And then when you have a person who directed a flawless,extremely likable,one of its kind Khosla Ka Ghosla handling these talented people and with a story that looked so promising on paper one would expect nothing but fireworks. But sadly that was not to be. I wouldn't say its a bad film, far from being called one but somehow I expected a lot more fun, a lot more logic from the makers of KKG. That was however not to be. The movie as u might have already read in various reviews is good in parts and it really is. It starts off well but then it goes on,on and on.Scene after scene you are pained to see only one thing,Lucky getting in and coming out with loads of goods. We don't know how he does it with so ease barring a few instances. Paresh Rawal,inspite of having a relatively large screen time in 3 different roles is wasted and not once has he evoked any laughter. and the connection for these 3 roles..Might be the director wanted to show all the tormentors Lucky encounters at various stages through one person.was that really needed.The actor playing Lucky's sidekick had also fallen flat, not much fun from his side as well. Stealing the Merc,Burglary at the editor's house,Getting off with the bike at PS and the various other petty crimes....There wasn't much in it really.They looked all so very simple.It would have been a better fare had they shown him using his Grey matter in outsmarting the people around him. That is where the film falters.For the full 2 1/2 hours u see him doing the same thing and that really gets onto you and one would yearn to see the end rolls. What has been very encouraging though is that most of the critics have given it a thumbs up and people are loving it.Thats what matters in the end.May be I was expecting way too much ala KKG and was disappointed. Go with no expectations and you would in all probability like it. I sincerely hope that KKG goes on to become a surprise hit inspite of all its flaws. For me though,I would be eagerly looking forward to Abhay's next Dev D(modern day Devdas...Sounds interesting rt) in the direction of Anurag Kashyap(Black Friday) and Dibakar's next. He had faltered this time but he has all the talent in the world to recreate the KKG magic
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