Originally posted by: ShadowKisses
After reading the glowing reviews here, I decided to give the movie a chance and I can honestly say from this experience that when Raja Sen and Taran Aadarsh agree that a movie is pathetic, one should stay far, far away from said movie.
*Spoilers ahead*Suri claims that it is 'God' who is writing this love story. If that is the case then, 'God' happens to be an extremely lame screenwriter. The movie is heavily inspired from Mani Ratnam's Mouna Raagam. Unlike Mouna Raagam, however, RNBDJ does not have a strong storyline. The basic premise is: Tani's groom dies with his family. Girl's father wants her to marry geek Suri. Tani doesn't love Suri but he wants her to love him. He decides to adopt an alter ego. She loves his alter ego and wants to elope with his alter ego. However, after a visit to the temple, she stays with Suri because "usme rab dikhta hai". Because this script would have been too short, the audience is subjected to ridiculous sequences such as the one where Tani chases another dance participant in a way that is reminiscent of the chase in Dhoom II. But then not all scenes in every movie is related to the storyline. If this one sequence makes people laugh then why not? Simple comedy makes a movie more lovable for me at least. Secondly, I don't think that she completely fell in love with Suri in that one visit to the temple. I think she just realized as she mentioned that he married her when she was alone then how can she be so selfish now to leave him because she has found someone who loves her? I think because Suri never confessed his love she thought he doesn't even love her then she should go with Raj. Everyone has his/her weak moments but a true person wins over them and that's what Taani did. Her true decision overwhelmed the decision she made in weak moments. If you can see God in someone doesn't mean you're heads over heals in love with them, it just means that that person's soul is so true and selfless that you can see God in that person. You can see God in not only your husband/boyfriend but maybe even in your father or mother or any family member or even a friend. Agreed that in this movie the focus was on the husband/wife idea.Why the alter ego if all that was needed for Tani to love him was the divine intervention? Why the dance competition? Why does Suri refuse to change himself even though the movie shows he is capable of being a fun guy? Why does he expect that Tani fall for his unnattractive self when he falls for Tani for her outer beauty? Why is the movie so boring and cliched? He didn't fall for her outer beauty. Yes, he did fall in love at first sight but that just doesn't mean that he loved her for her beauty. He liked her for her liveliness, for her laughter, and how simple she was. Alter ego wasn't needed to make Taani fall in love with Suri. He became Raj so he could make her laugh, so he could spend some time with her. He had said that Suri reminds her of her duties and her fate. But Raj can bring out her true happy self. Love has to happen as you are. If you are going to change yourself so someone falls in love wtih you, then it's not true love is it? and that's what was shown. She ultimately realizes his true self and that it's not that modern and fun loving guy that's important, the guy can be simple and boring but it's his heart that matters. And at the end the picture scenes do make it clear that he was becoming more fun loving with Taani, so it wasn't that he wanted to make her fall in love with his unattractive self, but he wanted to make sure that she was in love with who he was truly and then whether he decides to change himself afterwards or not is a different deal.Even if one overlooks the fact that Tani, who isn't visually impaired by any standards, can't recognize her husband because he shaved off his moustache and jazzed up, it is hard to overlook the appalling lack of continuity in her character. Her initial groom and his entire family dies. Her father suffers a heart attack and passes away. Before he dies, however, he asks her to mary Suri because he was smart. *face-palm*. Having served their purpose, neither the groom's death, nor the father's death are ever mentioned again. These two events should be crucial in her characterization yet, the script-writer never touches them. So much for continuity. Later, Tani is ready to elope with Raj, but after a visit to the temple, she decides to stay with her husband. Why? Because she sees 'God' in him. *head-desk* Gee. That must mean atheists are not likely to find their soul mates then. Also, chauvinistic much? No man should be equated to 'God' and no women should be a pious devotee of said 'God' when he (the alleged 'God') lacks charisma of any sort. Divine intervention is used as a deus ex-machina to cover up a lame screen play. The lack of continuity isn't just present in Tani's character, it also dominates Suri/Raj transformation. One day, he's Suri, a soft-spoken fellow. The next day, he's uber cool Raj. Where is the transition? Yep, I agree with the latter part. I was also a bit struck with the fact how easily they transformed Suri into Raj. So I agree there, that transformation wasn't smooth and a bit unreal. The deaths aren't mentioned again but they have their effect on Taani, before Raj makes her laugh she's always sad. I think not everything needs to be mentioned when you know it has happened, the audience knows what has happened and we can see the effects in Taani too but life doesn't stop does it? That's what's shown. They died but the living ones have to move on and with Suri's/Raj's support Taani did. I think I mentioned it in my previous post that everyone has his/her weak moments and the decision that are then taken are the ones we end up regretting but when she visited the temple she realized how much Suri has done for her and she can't be so selfish to leave him now. It was a component of the movie that you can see God in your beloved. If you don't believe in that theme then it's true that you wouldn't like that movie... But neither of them were equated with God. They could see God in that person because their soul is so true and selfless. I agree that there's some discontinuity and some transitions are not that smooth but that happens in a movie sometimes. We have to ignore this little stuff and look at the movie as whole.SRK acts extremely well, which is something I've never said in relation to SRK before, as Suri. If there is any reason one should watch the movie, then it is to see SRK trying to make Suri as likeable as he possibly can. Watch out for the scene where he picks up the telephone and says "Surinder Sahani, this side". It probably is the most endearing scene in the entire movie. However, when he becomes Raj, he hams like there is no tomorrow. For the most part, Anushka [Anoushka?] is average. No fault of hers, though, as her character is shoddily written and poorly developed. Vinay Pathak is wasted. The leading pair share zilch chemistry, which doesn't add to the overall appeal of the movie. Agree there, to some extent, although I do think that Anushka was more than average. And I loved SRK too even though I am not a die hard fan.
Again just my opinions, I respect yours and everyone else's.
-Mahi
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