I watched Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na last evening. And it was a nice experience because I had a smile on my face throughout the evening.
Few stray thoughts (in Busybee style)!
- That Imran and Genelia are here to stay. Watching them is like watching a young Aamir and Juhi twenty years back. Probably they will mistakes on the way, but boy, right now let's take a bow at their performances! To me it's Genelia, who despite her accent, lights up the screen with her subtle emotions. I hope she doesn't lose her way like Amrita Rao and Ayesha Takia (both talented actresses)! Look at her in the scene when she drops Imran and his girl friend. When Imran offers to drop his girl friend, she says,"Kitna drop karega? " Jealousy written all over the face, but still the lines are understated!
- That I was wondering where the hell was Abbas Tyrewala all these days. Few years back, when I saw Munnabhai MBBS, Maqbool, and Main Hoon Na, I felt like many others that he was a serious talent in the otherwise neglected field of screenwriting. And that he along with Jaideep Sahni, Prasun Joshi, and Anurag Kashyap, could be trusted with bringing back content to the Hindi movies. Phew! He is back with his writing (I am not discussing his direction!). Some of the scenes are so well written that you feel like getting up from your seat and applauding. Like the whole characterization of Meghna, Imran's girlfriend—boy, what details! Like the caricaturizing of the Rajput culture—the writing is so clever that it doesn't cross over to being a point of ridicule—it could have been so easily that! It's the writing that lifts the otherwise plain vanilla-style story to greater heights!
- That the movie made relive my college days. I could have easily come back saying that I don't relate to Jai and Aditi. But thanks to Abbas' vision, I didn't feel so. It tells you that a story realistically told will always touch a chord somewhere in the audience.
- That Imran and Genelia are here to stay. Watching them is like watching a young Aamir and Juhi twenty years back. Probably they will mistakes on the way, but boy, right now let's take a bow at their performances! To me it's Genelia, who despite her accent, lights up the screen with her subtle emotions. I hope she doesn't lose her way like Amrita Rao and Ayesha Takia (both talented actresses)! Look at her in the scene when she drops Imran and his girl friend. When Imran offers to drop his girl friend, she says,"Kitna drop karega? " Jealousy written all over the face, but still the lines are understated!
- That I was wondering where the hell was Abbas Tyrewala all these days. Few years back, when I saw Munnabhai MBBS, Maqbool, and Main Hoon Na, I felt like many others that he was a serious talent in the otherwise neglected field of screenwriting. And that he along with Jaideep Sahni, Prasun Joshi, and Anurag Kashyap, could be trusted with bringing back content to the Hindi movies. Phew! He is back with his writing (I am not discussing his direction!). Some of the scenes are so well written that you feel like getting up from your seat and applauding. Like the whole characterization of Meghna, Imran's girlfriend—boy, what details! Like the caricaturizing of the Rajput culture—the writing is so clever that it doesn't cross over to being a point of ridicule—it could have been so easily that! It's the writing that lifts the otherwise plain vanilla-style story to greater heights!
- That the movie made relive my college days. I could have easily come back saying that I don't relate to Jai and Aditi. But thanks to Abbas' vision, I didn't feel so. It tells you that a story realistically told will always touch a chord somewhere in the audience.
- That Abbas must never give up writing in his drive to make films because Hindi movies needs the writer in him!
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