Something happens to you when Yash Raj gets it right. I have tried to cook it, chew it, digest it to come up with a theory or a formula to see what is the reason for this. And no, this is not the usual identify with the story, characters, great music theory. Its very Raj Kapoorian, where an additional dimension is added to the experience. You can taste the punjabi food, get high on bhaang in Rang Barse, smell the flowers, touch a heaving Madhuri or even breathe the crisp Swiss air. Something very 4-D about their film that i cant explain.
But only when they get it right! When they get it wrong, they just get it so wrong that you want to watch a tamil movie immediately to get over the hangover! Fortunately for all of us they get it all right in Band Baaja Baraat!
If you put Jab we met in a dryer, you get BBB, a tighter, grungier and a more real version. A minute into the movie and you are taken into the hostel life in a DU college. In five, you are introduced to the lead pair and in ten, the story is on a rollercoaster ride of their relationship set in Delhi.
Its also helps when a Sehwag-like hero and a motor-mouth heroine are setting the pace. The emotional scenes are handled briskly, the kissing scene passes by before any one gasps or gets excited and finally the patch up scenes are so quickly done away with, that its feels like an enjoyable Delhi darshan bus tour.
Just like JWM, the chemistry between the two is brilliant and the hero follows the heroine. It is the ultimate romantic story between the quintessential Yash Raj heorine and the Not so quintessential Yash Raj hero. She is spontaneous, knows whats she wants, middle class, papas girl. She is everything that a man wants the woman in his life to be!
He is a newcomer, he is rustic and he has flaws. Yet everyone loves him for being him.
Ranveer Singh is brilliant as the bad-english speaking, haryanvi jat with his gallery pleasing oneliners ,who has the unenviable choice of either going back to his dad's sugar cane farm or joining forces with Anushka Sharma, who has the unenviable task of playing the bad-aunty type role to a funny Ranveer. The dialogues are never out of character, very Delhi and completely to the point, except that someone pointed out that 'chirkut' is a maharashtrian word but "koi nai yaar!"
If you have lived in Delhi and enjoyed its loud, larger than life idiosyncrasies, you will be at the weddings, drink with the baraat, eat chowmein (one veg and one non-veg)with the hero, dance with the heroine and most importantly speak the same bad english with a delhi accent! If you are from Mumbai, it may be too Delhi for you, so you may go for a re-run of JWM instead.
But only when they get it right! When they get it wrong, they just get it so wrong that you want to watch a tamil movie immediately to get over the hangover! Fortunately for all of us they get it all right in Band Baaja Baraat!
If you put Jab we met in a dryer, you get BBB, a tighter, grungier and a more real version. A minute into the movie and you are taken into the hostel life in a DU college. In five, you are introduced to the lead pair and in ten, the story is on a rollercoaster ride of their relationship set in Delhi.
Its also helps when a Sehwag-like hero and a motor-mouth heroine are setting the pace. The emotional scenes are handled briskly, the kissing scene passes by before any one gasps or gets excited and finally the patch up scenes are so quickly done away with, that its feels like an enjoyable Delhi darshan bus tour.
Just like JWM, the chemistry between the two is brilliant and the hero follows the heroine. It is the ultimate romantic story between the quintessential Yash Raj heorine and the Not so quintessential Yash Raj hero. She is spontaneous, knows whats she wants, middle class, papas girl. She is everything that a man wants the woman in his life to be!He is a newcomer, he is rustic and he has flaws. Yet everyone loves him for being him.
Ranveer Singh is brilliant as the bad-english speaking, haryanvi jat with his gallery pleasing oneliners ,who has the unenviable choice of either going back to his dad's sugar cane farm or joining forces with Anushka Sharma, who has the unenviable task of playing the bad-aunty type role to a funny Ranveer. The dialogues are never out of character, very Delhi and completely to the point, except that someone pointed out that 'chirkut' is a maharashtrian word but "koi nai yaar!"
If you have lived in Delhi and enjoyed its loud, larger than life idiosyncrasies, you will be at the weddings, drink with the baraat, eat chowmein (one veg and one non-veg)with the hero, dance with the heroine and most importantly speak the same bad english with a delhi accent! If you are from Mumbai, it may be too Delhi for you, so you may go for a re-run of JWM instead.
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