There are only four people who can make me believe and fall in love with love. That is Rumi, Ghalib, YC and Shahrukh... I am a true cynic when it comes to eternal love, to the idea that love can make you do stupid, illogical things. We all wish for that kind of love, but like Akira says in JHTH that it is next to impossible to find a love like that or to even feel that in today's time. That is where these four succeed; they make me want to believe in soul mates, in the kind of love, madness, passion that love should ignite whether it be for a person or for God. My review has nothing to do with the concept or the story, if I start on that then there are flaws, many loopholes and many moments that could have been done better, but I am sure many have done so already.
Whenever I watch YC movies or any love stories, I leave logic behind, when you go to watch a love story (which is very rarely for me), you don't need logic, all you need to do is feel the love and that is where YC and Shahrukh always excelled and none of the recent crop of directors that try and make love stories have ever been able to create that magic. One such example is Rockstar, I just didn't feel the love between the characters, and I didn't feel his passion his junoon for her, Ranbir was good as the brooding rockstar, but I just didn't feel the love. Anyway I am digressing from the topic.
As Rumi has said that "Be foolishly in love, as love is the only thing there is..." Samar's love for Meera was just that... he was foolishly, madly in love with her to the point where he is willing to fight and test her and his faith in god. Nobody can display passion as SRK, his eyes speak volume, like I said before he's one of the people that make me want to fall in love; be it the lover boy righteous DDLJ Raj or the Raj Aryan of mohabbatein or the numerous Rahul's or the mischievous lying but sweet nikamma Sunil of KHKN, or the one looking to get his pride back as Kabir Khan of CDI or Mohan of Swades. When he plays it right, he does them to perfection. Major Samar took my breath away as the brooding, angst ridden lover who somewhere deep down was still the challa waiting for his beloved. His interactions with Akira showed that, and according to me he saw a lot of himself in her, the mischief, the care free bindaas attitude, and the passion...to an extent she managed to somehow bring a bit of him back. I loved the airport scene, such a poignant scene between the two that has to be my favourite scene and my favourite interaction between the two. SRK makes this movie though and YC gives it the feel with his simplicity, care and passion.
YC has always had larger than life characters in his love stories because I think somewhere he truly believed in the ideals and principles of his characters; whether they be males or females, we need to just look at Kabhie kabhie, lamhe, DTPH, VeerZaara to name but a few. Samar and Meera are no different, if we look at Maya and her idealistic approach and belief in love and Meera and her belief and love in god, I see not much difference. They are both an emotion of love and both are inexpressible with words. I may not agree with Meera or Maya's ideals, but the way YC always managed to portray the beliefs of these characters is what makes me understand them. SRK's right that YC is a women's director and Adi is a man's director and this is clearly visible in their movies as well as Adi's scripts. JTHJ is Samar's story, Meera is just a massive part of it, same was the case for Veer Zaara, whereas if we look at DTPH, that for me at least was Maya's film through and through.
"The whole business of love is to drown in the sea..." for me this pretty much sums up Meera's character. She was in love with Samar so much so that she was ready to give him up...Kat was good, some scenes she was better than others.. not as wooden as she was in ETT (I watched it last week and well.. let's leave it to that) She faltered at points and that is why it made it slightly difficult for me to be able to connect to her.. With love stories one needs to feel for the characters and that is why I think it might have been nice to see someone like Rani, perhaps? I don't know, but nonetheless she was a dream on screen and looked absolutely beautiful. SRK and her scenes were good; you felt their love at times.. I remember a point one of my friend made, that at times he found their love to be fake and I think it was because he couldn't connect to her character as well as the fact that there was physical intimacy, but like I said to him that when in love, let the lovers be as they're drunk on love to realise anything but each other.
"Wash off all the wonderings, just surrender to his fragrance..." Akira did just that, she knew Samar's love was unfavourable and nobody could take Meera's place yet she surrendered herself to him. She became his 'Meera'...Anuksha was great; you could see her love, her apprehensions when talking to Meera about Samar.
This movie had many flaws, and it's not the best of YC, but then again neither was VZ, but the essence of love, his passion and his characters is what makes his love stories for me. It is sad that we will never be able to see the innocence of love portrayed in such a fashion again, but his legacy will live on through his movies. The end credits were beautiful, you could see child like innocence, his passion, his love while shooting. SRK's right YC truly was an 18 year old at heart. Even with all its flaws and some W*F moments, it was nice to see a feel good, YC romantic movie after ages and that as well the final one...
PS- This is my first post after being inactive on IF for about two years, feels slightly awkward.. but anyway here it is. Apologies for any mistake.
Edited by -Edelweiss- - 12 years ago
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