Movie Time
Well, after aeons, I was fortunate enough to go through many 1-day holidays , thanks to which I could spend some time to 'chill-out' wid my friends. I was very lucky as :
- It was my friends B'Day- which meant the poor guy had to foot All the bills [;) shameless na lol]
- The plus point was that our friends group was meeting after quite some time !
- It was fun- not the travelling though !!
I dont know why many people have a perception about YashRaj movies manufacturing only typical Masala films- it had its bit of Masala in it- but it wasnt so much to burn your tongue ! I liked it a lot and it puts you into retrospect .
Every teenager knows about the word “Love”, to realize the things as he/ she heard about. We grew up and according to our maturity levels, we perceive the same in different manners. But sure Love is not always like we see in movies, what we read in books. Few questions always stays in front of us as to-be-answered. Sometime we pass through these questions, sometime we not.
1- What we want from this feeling "Love”?
2- Could we wait till we get the final one and avoid the pressure of being the “Killer”?
3- Could we ever realize that which One is the final one?
4- What if we never get “The one”?
5- Is being hooked with someone for a while, whose company make you feel nice, wrong?
6- Are we ready to take it as a lifetime contract? Is something like “Love at first sight” exists?
7- When we really get ready to commit from innermost from our heart?
8- Does everyone get, what they called “Love”?
I would say, if You were trying to get the answers to the above questions by watching movies, that You were simply looking in the wrong place. Because in Movies, we get lost in a world which IS seemingly similar to our own, and many a time, we identify ourselves wid the onscreen characters, but there are many quintecessal rules which exist in the Real Life and which will never appear in Reel life.
Anyways, moving on from abstract philosophy to the brilliant cinematography, Bachna Ae haseeno tells the story about Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor) and his tangled love life. Tangled because he chooses it that way.
The movie showcases the journey of Ranbir Kapoor from the age of 17 to 30 years. He meets three different girls at three different stages of his life. What he learns about love with these experiences is what “Bachna Ae Hasino” all about. At the age of 17, with his go lucky attitude, he meets the first girl Mahi (Minissha Lamba), a small town girl from Punjab, in the backdrop of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. He has his short fling with her before they have to part. He tells his friends it was just a minr fling and he has no feelings for Mahi; Mahi overhears him and her heart is shattered.
This Phase was all about Teenage love. A little show off, few little fantasies, curiosity to know what it is, what people call as love. We don’t feel about commitments, unable to posses that level of respect for emotions, commit blunders and later forget it as it was a play. Some of us come to be strong enough to get ahead of these early heartbreaks and for some, it leaves a mark for lifetime.
Cut to 2002-Raj,now working as Game Analyst for Microsoft (what more one could be wishing for), is in Mumbai staying in a Live-In Relationship with his Girlfriend Radhika. The second girl, Radhika (Bipasha Basu), hot and glamorous having origin of Ranchi, is here for being a successful model. After having a good time without asking about any commitment, Raj gets transferred to Sydney to work there. Little did he know that Radhika would be so attached to him , inclined to commit her life to him: Raj, not ready for any type of commitment leading to marriage, deserts Radhika who is brutally torn apart mentally.This one year live-in-relationship tears apart Radhika to be Shreya; the big successful name- a small-town girl achieving world wide fame as a model.
This was all about love, before getting that level of maturity, which gives you a sense of responsibility and you fall for the person, not for beauty or glamour only. Otherwise, we just want to have it for fun and for showing off that we are Killers. We don’t wish to get these days ended, thinking that we have something much more better stored somewhere for us. We just enjoy having fun time and don’t wish to get asked about rights, morality and commitment. We look at the show off side, fun etc. but miss to see the depth of developing relations. Yes, we commit by words, but still run away from real commitments. Sometimes we breakup by words, sometimes by other means or sometimes just run away like Raj chosen this time without even thinking that what the person at other side felt.
Cut to Sydney: Raj finds another love mate as Gayatri (Deepika Padukone). One day, he meets Gayatri, a cab-driver, who also works in a super-market as the cashier. She is intellectual, witty and cute enough to charm Raj. She doesn’t believes in institution of marriage or rules of commitment like Raj. He finds her irresistible and this time, after dating a while, he get settled over the fact that she is the one for him and like never before, this time, he decides to ask her for commitment of lifetime. But Gayatri refuses the same and call it an end of their relationship.
Heart broken Raj now come to feel the pain, he might have given to Mahi or Radhika and only thing, he decides to do, is to go for correcting his mistakes .here comes the Intermission.
The second half starts. Hereth ends the message- Was it going to be that easy to just go and say sorry and then get a smile back, saying that “Nothing to worry about that what happened in past, I am fine and forgiven you long back”?
Yes, it was not like that. He reaches to Mahi’s place. (typical Bollywood style: Apply the Main rule:Never Question Bollywood films !!) He meets her husband Joginder Ahaluwalia (Kunal Kapoor) and two sons. He gets shocked to know that how much deep impact, he has left over the innocent girl that she is not comfortable in her love life even after having two kids. He feels the love, Joginder has for Mahi and realizes- what he has done is not so small to be forgiven.
From this point of time, the Hero emerges from Raj and even after getting threatened by Joginder, he decides to stay and makes things nicer for Mahi.
Raj realizes that Joginder is the one, Mahi was always looking for. Luckily it takes only a few tricks and one meet with Mahi in a wedding and he makes it. I feel thrilled at the moment, when he walks away with the smile after achieving, what he wished for. But thats just enough for a little solace before he heads to task 2: find and apologize to Radhika. Little does he realize what all he has to go through before he really earns his sorry.
Radhika is Shreya now; a very successful star of the glamour world. Shreya seems to became much rude over whole world, but still gives a chance to Raj, by saying that she will consider to forgive Raj if he agrees to be her assistant for a while. Raj agrees and then it goes literally like the song “Small Town Girl”, which means he does everything from washing the floor, to dancing on the roads. Finally, Shreya breaks to say that 'you are totally desperate to be forgiven na…'. She breaks to tell him, what she felt after being left behind like a cheap trash. She says, she will never forgive him, she can’t.Raj is now very depressed. He feels thats what he deserves after what he's done to Radhika and he goes to the Airport to board his flight to Sydney fully realising he deserves his current plight.
Raj realizes that what he has did to Radhika, was like something, no one could ever forgive and decides to leave from this point. But here, the forgiveness of girls comes in and he finds Radhika at the Airport. She forgives him telling that probably, if he has not been like that, then she would not have ever become as successful as she is now. She comes back to be Radhika again and Raj moves back to Sydney , with satisfaction that he has righted what he had made wrong and that gives him some solace.
After reaching Sydney, our lucky dude, comes to find out that Gayatri loves him and has written many letters to him in this six months period. He meets her and finds that the cycle of love gets completed.
Raj was lucky to get forgiven, moreover, it was just a movie, but could anyone else be lucky like this …. one can’t be. Thanks for making an effort to make boys realizing the seriousness of relationships.
REMARKS ::
Ranbir: Looks enough cute for the role and it seems like this role was meant for him only.
Minisha: She looked cute like any teenager.
Bipasha: Hot as per requirements of the role. Gives complete justification to the role.
Deepika: Perfect one. She looks innocent, cute and witty at the same time. I don’t think that it was easy for someone else to justify the role in this way.
Of course this wasnt a perfect film and had its minor flaws, it wasnt a comlete romantic comedy- both outweighed the other at certain points of time, but it is enjoyable. This Movie is sweet enough to find places in the heart of teens [like Us !!] . Nice songs, nice locations and hot-n-cute pairs… what one could wish from a Bollywood Flick.
