So what exactly have I been up to?Hmm..let me go back a few days and run past the highlights...Saw the new YashRaj offering Salaam Namaste in the company of two
girls-DJ and her friend whose name,embarassingly,does not jog my
memory.Still it is a pleasant sensation and I did not how much I missed
this until i went for the movie.So anyways,the movieAh well.It is a good example fo what a mass produced,mass marketed,filmed abroad movie is like.
In a word,Unimaginative.
So we have the succesful plot of boy meets girl accidentally,hate each
other over the phone due to a misunderstanding and hate each other
again and again.Then they encounter each other somewhere,without
knowing who the other is,do the weird group bollywood dance on a
Melbourne beach and fall for each other.Pretty soon they move in with
each other ;No,No..not for THAT,just so they can spend time with each
other and learn each other's habits and see where can they take the
relationship from there.Painful hilarity ensues in the form of Javed Jaffrey who is their
prospective landlord with a long legged lass as his mistress and an
even longer reprise of Feroz Khan's B-Gradiest ham roles(by Javed I
mean,not the monosyllabic miss)So all is hunky dory,the metrosexual Saif does the cooking and
cleaning,and the dual role capable Screechy Zinta juggles jobs as a
radio jockey on the eponymous music station and a surgeon in the making
in the day.Eventually,the yuppie couple do fall big time for each other and fall
into bed too.And later,due to a lack of believing in the adage of keep
the South East Asian rubber economies thriving,they end up with child.Now,our lad is so not prepared for fatherhood and hustles the dolly
into getting rid of 'It' ,which obviously she does not,else the movie
would not have lasted past the popcorn break.So,we follow the myriad twists and turns the plot takes which is mainly a display of Saif's character's immaturity.
They continue living in the same house seperately ,because we are reminded they really have no other place to show as both have paid a substantial downpayment on the
rent.And then they fight,go hunting for ice-cream together;the lad comes to
the realisation that maybe the baby thing is fine for him.
Arshad Warsi as his sidekick who marries Screechy's pal Screamy (Tania Zaetta,the
newest member of the YawnRaj family) is bearable.
Big B's prescient comment haunts the mind.
Anyways,all's well that ends well including making Screechy accept the wedding ring before entering the delivery
room where they enact the delivery room scene from 9 Months.
Sigh.
I just decribed a 2 and half hour movie in 5 mins.Anyways,while the movie deals with a topical and bold subject,one
wonders why could not they be bolder and set it in India;and why resort
to hackneyed scenes.One feels let down at the end of it all.
Still ,it gets 3 stars:one each for the babes,the beach and the Ben and
Jerry's ice-cream.
And they din't even show the Penguins of Melbourne.