After the hype surrounding the movie, its pregnant director, its superstar hero and the "girlfriend of every cricketer who is single" heroine, I thought the movie would be horrible. I was wrong. Shahrukh delivers as always except for the dard e disco song. Why on hell do men in their middle ages decide to become 18 all over again. I do not, I repeat, I do not want to see a forty year old mans artificially enhanced body in various stages of undress anointed with oil and other assorted liquids dancing with girls a quarter his age dressed in itsy bitsy nothings. Even a decent porn star wont agree to appear as an oily fireman in a psychedelic nightmare fire set. Farah khan, madam please never mix oil and fire especially not on a forty year old body. Although on second thoughts he was a caricature of a superstar bollywood hero and would be expected to do such songs, so maybe that is what the director wanted to show. Who knows and who cares.
Other than that the film was proper timepass. loads of insider jokes and funny moments. Whatever said and done, though it may never win any awards or get mentioned as a creative piece of film, it entertains. Reincarnation inspired by Karz and every hero and heroine in town appearing in a song except for Amir "snooty" khan and some other not so famous ones is more than enough to draw crowds. By the way Deepika is stunning, even though i have said a few uncharitable words about her previously (in the previous paragraph to be exact) I loved her. She was gorgeous as a seventies heroine and even more gorgeous as a modern wannabe heroine.
As for the non story, poor junior artiste dies trying to save famous heroine killed by villainous producer, is reincarnated as a superstar and wants to take revenge using, surprise surprise, a similar looking girl. PS: The dead non reincarnated true love appears in the end as a ghost. comedy , drama, emotion, action, romance! By the way there are two OM's and one Shanti hehehehe.
kya istory bhai!! 8/10
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