Apu, anyone?īut the influence of America is not just in the presence of a lot of non-Indian faces. The New York Times notes that this may be payback for Hollywood's portrayal of non-Americans. There is a children's soccer match scene which teases these stereotypes particularly well. It seems we'll never shake that alternatively obese or steroids-pumped look nowadays, complete with shrill voices and ultra-casual garb. The portrayal of Americans was also quite funny. Step back everyone: Shah Rukh is Acting Now. Behold Dev's Han Solo-esque demands, "I love you and you love me too." Dammit. We could not help, being native English speakers, noting with amusement the liberal use of English when needing to punctuate an emotion.
The acting was fine, in that it was about as good as if we had used puppets with funny voices. The viewer certainly feels for all the couples, even if they are all just stylized archetypes: Dev the Byronic Hero versus Rishi the Too Perfect Man.
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The movie is a long series of light-hearted and genuinely funny moments à la Sleepless in Seattle punctuated by the requisite tearful arguments, reconciliations, and dizzying dance sequences. The director was big on split screens, which made everything feel a little 1960s human drama-esque. Yet despite his boozing, libertine exterior, in his chest beats the heart of a sensitive soul it's all mourning for his late wife, you see? (We don't see.) But Dev's mom sees, and how! Who can resist Amitabh's powers, anyway? Especially when he does that dance of his. Samarjit (Amitabh Bachchan), known to some as Sexy Sam, is Rishi's dad and a man perpetually handcuffed to anonymous call girls. Love is in the air for the senior citizens as well. Dramatic scenes where lovers lie to each other, their spouses. With the pretense of being 'friends' who want to 'help each other save their respective marriages', they are, of course, clearly on the road to a little some'n some'n. Interestingly, rather than the sunny Rishi and Rhea falling for each other, the movie shows us the blossoming love between the depressed Maya and Dev. She is, like Rishi, in a bit of a lopsided relationship, as she's married to the man-shrew, Dev (Shah Rukh Khan), who, after a spectacular car accident early in the film which ends his dreams of becoming David Beckham, hobbles around like Gregory House, hating the world and himself. Meanwhile, Rhea (Preity Zinta) is a go-get-'em fashion magazine queen she's a sunny, successful businesswoman, a model for us all. Maya, however, is Frosty, Queen of Ice, and interminably dour. The story is this: Rishi (Abhishek Bachchan) is a happy-go-lucky guy who loves life and loves his wife, Maya (Rani Mukherjee). (For you at home keeping score, that makes Shah Rukh Khan - 5, PPCC - 0. well, it's not that overbearing), and Shah Rukh Khan's powers beat us again, for we cried. We were a little surprised then: the story is presented with sensitivity and a light, deft touch (rather than overbearing melodrama. But we had prepared ourselves for the worst: one of those multi-starrer post-2000 Bollywood extravaganzas that hide a vacuum behind a thin shell of tears, bad jokes, and unsatisfying songs. Bored with work? Turn on KANK for a few minutes. It was like having the Friends season finale, going on and on and on. Since we watched this movie in half-hour snatches throughout an otherwise busy but boring day, we would say it was digestible. The music climbs to a climax: Dev dodges into the train, sits, and then -Īdmittedly, you have to wait three hours and five minutes for this piece of conventional cinema gold. The camera zooms, we see Dev stop in his tracks while Maya asks someone for help.
The camera swoops, we see Maya running while Dev hustles through the crowds. Quick! The train leaves in one minute, and if you don't catch him now, YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL HIM YOU LOVE HIM! (Mobile phones and Hallmark cards don't have quite the same effect.) Thanks to some tragic misunderstandings, Dev has actually seen Maya and is quickly limping away, trying to avoid her. With sweeping choral voices to accompany the slow-motion chase, Maya (Rani Mukherjee) races through the station, saree flowing behind, searching frantically for her love, Dev (Shah Rukh Khan). It was even already an hour earlier in this same movie. The best scene in the 3-hour soap opera, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna ( Never Say Goodbye), is the classic train station finale.