No, no, not at all. You don't have to pity the bespectacled, Clark Gable-moustachioed Suri of Aditya Chopra's Rab ne Bana di Jodi. In fact, the Amritsar-domiciled Suri is a soul brother to the mousy Clark-Kent-cum-Superman. And of other dual-personality-toting wonders from a wild variety of sources such as V Shantaram's Navrang, Raj Kapoor's Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Golmaal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee's, please), and even a faint shade of Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor. In effect, you get two SRKs for the price of one. A kind of Satyam Shahrukham Surinderam.
Our Simple Surinder-turned-Rocking Raj makes you laugh and sob alternately. Honestly, after quite a long famine you're treated to a banquet of entertainment. For most part of the way, the spread is fun, feel-wonderful and perhaps expectedly, shouldered by a 10-on-10 performance by Shah Rukh Khan. Often when the screenplay flags, he keeps you engaged with his effortless schizophrenic shifts from a mild-mannered nerd to a jazzy Joe. Glow.
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