Total Rip-off

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2008)

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is a totally flawed concept that you start believing in true love when you see the lord (aka Rab) in a human (to some which could also mean that everyone loves the same face!). Desis (Indians) in the United States have very few Indian movie options and so we kind of watch most that are released here. I made a terrible choice last weekend of watching "Rab ne bana di Jodi" over "Slumdog Millionaire". Post 1996 (when DDLJ was released) Yash Raj et al. have created a "recycle bin" of their movie fundas, or I should call it over saturated movie mantras. What Chopras failed to imagine was that they needed a good plot and a decent performance from SRK to make this movie watchable,not a Punjab background and girl begging SRK (again!) to take her with him. I still wonder what made Aditya come up with such a plot (he probably spoiled his DDLJ fame this time). Anyways, movie started with Amritsar (India) in background followed by this guy: Surinder Sahni. Now I appreciate the typical middle class look Shahrukh Khan (SRK) was given (massively oiled hair, plated ol'fashioned trousers with sneakers!). But then starts SRK's acting (over-acting). Indeed he is a good actor (check Swades) but for some reason he has this habit of making the stupidest faces ever (he started this from movie "Duplicate"). I personally don't think there was any need to use plethora of "hello ji" (kind of a "hello sir" in Hindi/Punjabi) and SRK could never make it sound like Punjabi "hanji", if at all he was trying. Anyways, movie takes off and reaches a saturation point within 30-45 minutes and stays there for remaining two hours or more, with occasional comedy scenes. You got to ignore stuff like "wife doesn't recognize you if you get rid of mustaches..Blah blah blah". And then there are scenes where SRK talks to himself or a Mannequin forever. Man! Can someone please screen such shots before actually releasing the movie? This movie definitely needed a much early termination point. I don't believe in reading background story if I want to watch a movie...but for this one it doesn't matter. 40 min in the theater and you know what next and what's going to happen in the end. The movie leaves you scratching your head for remaining hours figuring out that how can you spend > $10 on such a movie.