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I'm not a big fan of Romcoms (Romantic comedies) or dramdedies (drama+comedy). One of the main reasons being lame dialogue.
Watched Love Aaj Kal, and couldn't help but be disappointed that these supposedly good movies have such lame dialogue. When that chick was chatting Saif up during the break-up party, I was literally cringing. I mean, this is Imtiaz Ali, and he's supposed to be one of the most talented directors out there. Yet the dialogue is so frigging lame and contrived that it'll only be spoken in Bollywod movies - or by those who're boneheaded enough to memorise these lines and use it in quotidian speech. 🤢 Worse is the dialogue delivery. It was so goshdarned predictable and generic that I would know even before the lines would be spoken as to how they would be spoken and what sort of reaction it would elicit.
Think of all Bollywoodmovies that try to be funny in the first half and get serious in the second half - Hum Tum, Love Aaj Kal, Bachna Ae Haseeno etc. Baring maybe Dil Chahta Hai which was plausible in parts, all other fils have the crappiest dialogue spoken. For sure people in India don't talk like that. Romcoms work solely and solely because of good, funny dialogue and cracking chemistry between the main characters. Which is as often as not missing in Bollywod movies. Depika Padukone can't act - four movies and she's yet to display her acting chops, and Saif needs a good - no, a brilliant director like Vishal Bharadwaj and an offbeat role like Langda Tyagi to excel. He's played this urban, cool dude more number of times than I care to remember, and he certainly does not reinvent himself or bring anything new to the table - or the screen, as the case may be. Compounding their ineptitude is the cheesy dialogue they're been asked to mouth.
Maybe it's just me, idk, but this movie has turned me off these 'breezy' flicks for good. Unless vouched for by someone whose judgement I can trust, I don't think I can watch another of these type of fics.
*rant over*. What d'you guys think?
Anupamaa
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