When base is hollow, the building cant stand much

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2008)

RNBDJ is a decent entertainer. Fortunately I got free tickets of this movie and it was not so bad experience. Some of my friends who have already seen this movie warned me that its a boring movie. Inspite of that due to free tickets I went and watched it.
Fortunately the experience is not much regrettable for me, but not very pleasant also. The good thing about the movie is the music, songs and the actors. I am no fan of SRK. But I agree that he has the power to make people stick to their chair. In this movie, he performed Surinder beautifully. Raj is his normal overacted character, which we are used to. And here it is much overacted because the script demands it. The new actress and Vinay have done to their best, and performed well. The movie (when watched in theater) will make you sit to your chair till it ends. Some scenes are unnecessary and makes you snore. But still the movie is presented in a very pleasant and cool way, without any of the hyper drama and overdoses of love, friendship etc. These facts makes some positive impression.
But the basic problem of the movie is the base storyline of the movie. And this storyline is very thin and barely believable, and a lot childish. Just because someone trim mustache, remove specs and wear tight clothes doesn't make all together different personality. At least not for his wife. Also the wife saying to her boyfriend that she wants to leave, and on next day saying that she doesn't want to leave, is something that did not digest. Other than this due to very inherently corrupt baseline, the script itself has many loop holes, which doesn't make anything believable (e.g. the sumo fighting scene). The characters are also prescribed same. They are some times mild, sometimes over and hence do not make much impact. The director should know when to end the movie. After Raj says I LOVE YOU the movie should have ended within 15 minutes. But its still goes on, and then the dance at the end was utterly unnecessary. These facts also makes the impression bad about the movie. Faster the climax better the movie. Normally I hate watching songs in the movie. But in this if the songs were not there, I would have got out within minutes. Songs have definitely played a very good role in the movie. But in that too, hearing same music and line 'Rab ne bana di jodi' in high pitch more than often irritates brain. Again I am no great fan of Yashraj and SRK movies. But normally this combination means a funny, romantic three hours which could be spent with family. This movie too comes in same category, but if possible go with the pillow, so that you can take rest in between. And no need to say that you wont be remembering anything after you came out of theater. (Off course unless you want to write a review.)