What happens when ....
After one just moderately successful film, you gain mega director status and mega budgets?
After several successful movies, you think your productions have the Midas touch just by garnering all the big stars and shooting in expensive locales?
After 35 years of holding sway as India's best/most loved actor, you accept roles that reduce you to a caricature donning cockatoos feathers and kajra?
After 10 years in cinema, you have nothing to show but a dimple and DKNY dresses?
You get a kitschy dish called Jhoom Barabar Jhoom that tries to serve rajma with pesto sauce in French and English locales.
After one just moderately successful film, you gain mega director status and mega budgets?
After several successful movies, you think your productions have the Midas touch just by garnering all the big stars and shooting in expensive locales?
After 35 years of holding sway as India's best/most loved actor, you accept roles that reduce you to a caricature donning cockatoos feathers and kajra?
After 10 years in cinema, you have nothing to show but a dimple and DKNY dresses?
You get a kitschy dish called Jhoom Barabar Jhoom that tries to serve rajma with pesto sauce in French and English locales.
Shayad Ali disappoints after an impressive beginning in Bunty & Babli. B&B got many things right apart from the maniacal Kajra Re like the Abhi-Rani combo, small town aspirations breaking out, smart heists and a brilliant cameo by Amitabh with a gamcha.
I frankly fail to understand what Shaad Ali was trying with JBJ . Its neither a great love story nor a great comedy nor nor a campy movie which spoofs in the right way. When Shaad Ali makes Bobby dance to Jat Yamla or even make Abhishek and Bobby roam about London in a Sholay type mobike or make Preity do a Veer Zaara hangover at times,Abhishek wearing a coolie shirt or even Abhishek and Huffy Bhai move in a car with a Sapnon ki Rani background music, these attempts seem a bit vain and self-indulgent. Its a good romantic comedy in the first half and the second half is almost comic romance.
The movie boasts of great songs and lyrics. But the choreography could have been a lot better. Like the long title song with the lead pairs dancing in a competition. Compare it with a ' Chaand mera dil' type competition in Hum Kisise kum nahi or even Padosan for that matter. It just shows a distinct lack of soul and creativity in Bollywood nowadays.
Abhishek Bachhan tries to shoulder the movie on his shoulders, but there are times he fails to grasp that the hero should not act like a sidekick but evolve a consistent style in a movie. The best dialogues of the movie belong to actually Huffy bhai who essays a role with dead pan humour and gives the movie a rusticness in the backdrop of the designer locales and wardrobes.
Shaad Ali would like to claim he celebrated a kind of irrevent cool in this movie, a movie that does not take itself seriously. But the spoofs are not so well woven into the story like Farah Khan managed in Main Hoon Naa ( SRK riding a cycle rick named Dhanno) . And maybe there were one too many. And maybe the wrong stable, since the best spoofs could have been on the YRF style of filmmaking itself. For that we have to wait for Ramgopal Verma to wake up.
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