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Posted: 12 years ago
I watched JTHJ this evening. It was alright, but I was expecting a far better script from Yashji. I mean, the main reason why the lead couple (SRK-Kat) split up was kind of dumb. And SRK's reason for joining the army was just as senseless. Anushka was just TOO hyper for someone that was making a serious documentary for the Discovery Channel. I think on its own, JTHJ was one of the bearable films of 2012 but if you take into account the whole Yashji-SRK factor, it didn't live up to the expectations IMO.

I'm not sure if this was posted in the CC but Vigil Idiot's review of this movie is hilarious! 😆 I like how accurately he draws Katrina, SRK and Anushka. :P


The Vigil Idiot: Jab Tak Hai Jaan

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 10:02 AM BY SAHIL RIZWAN


What originality this film is, man! We have Shah Rukh Khan playing a romantic lead by the name of Samar Anand; Katrina Kaif playing Meera Thapar, an NRI who speaks accented Hindi; and Anushka Sharma playing Akira Rai who is'are you ready for this'a feisty girl from Delhi! Shocker, I know. But hey, actors get typecast all the time. As long as their roles are written well, right? Well, I wonder where all the costume money they saved on not giving pants to any of the women went' Because it sure as hell didn't go to the script department.






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Posted: 12 years ago
LOL Jzee did post the review earlier in the day and I did read it...his drawing of a BLANK faced Katrina is the best thing about this review...lol oh and also the bits with Jesus peeking out from behind her and asking her if SRK is bothering her...hahahaha

The story sounds MEGA lame...killed any feeble motivation I may have had to watch the movie to begin with...lol
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Posted: 12 years ago

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Thanks, Sarah🤗

Hope you're doing well too :-)



I'm doing well. :-)

Regarding JTHJ ... LOL, acha JZ posted that review before? I see! 😆 Haha I know, the best part was Katrina's cartoon having a blank face - literally. 😛

Dude you won't believe how far-fetched the plot was. I know Dil To Pagal Hai and Veer Zaara required us to suspend disbelief to some extent but JTHJ went a little too far. Firstly, SRK playing a 25 year old was just *facepalm* worthy because his age showed on his face. Secondly, Katrina (the "intelligent" businesswoman) fell for a jaahil like him for God knows what reason. Basically they fell in LOWE over his teaching her to sing in Punjabi and her teaching him to converse fluently in English. 😆 SRK wrote down the entire prem katha in a diary which he casually carried around 10 years later for Anushka to read.

Edit: Oh and I forgot to add ... acting and appearance wise SRK was hand down more appealing in JTHJ than Ra.One. I actually liked his trademark romantic expressions/gestures in the movie but sadly he didn't have a strong script to back up his Raj/Rahul-giri.
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Posted: 12 years ago
@Sarah: Most Yash Raj love stories or magnum opuses require us to suspend disbelief anyways...but they usually have strong chemistry and CHARISMA backing them up still...and JTHJ just doesn't have that when they decide to cast blank faced barbie doll with her forever repeated NRI/can't speak Hindi properly Bimbo roles.

Kajol once famously said that SRK told her he can have chemistry with a COW also...guess Katrina is even beyond THAT😆

We're getting a free preview of music channels aaj kal and I happened to watch the Mahi Ve song from KHNH playing on TV and I was just unable to reconcile that SRK with the current one...he's aged a 100 years in the last 10 years it seems...can't even believe you're looking at the same guy...and how long can that puppy dog romantic look of his work then before it starts looking creepy?


Edited by AreYaar - 12 years ago
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Posted: 12 years ago
Anyone keeping up with QH?

I liked today's epi...dunno if they've taken feedback or something but Zoya was less annoying today and seems to have toned down her voice a tad bit even though the rest of her typical clumsy behavior continues.

But her scenes with Asad do crack me up especially the PAINED look on his face listening to the things she says...lol

Zoya is a slightly different version of the typical ditzy Geet/Khushi type heroines...those girls play up their BEHENJINESS along with their bimboness in order to be "cute"...Zoya is a klutz and a bit of a dumbo sometimes but the behenji factor is not in play this time...in a departure from their usual formula, this time FLions seems to have made the GUY a bit of a "behenji" so to speak thought-process-wise...haha...today's scene wherein Zoya saved Najma from some lechers and then proceeded to tout her "karate" skills in front of Asad was funny and in a less forced way than their other recent scenes.


Also the mandatory "I don't believe in love" scene was shown on the three main characters...and all the cliched stuff aside, I liked Zoya's bit...it was a bit refreshing in terms of dialogue and well acted too I'd say...the girl is a decent actress when they don't make her act TOO hyper...or maybe I'm just getting used to her now.
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Posted: 12 years ago
@JZ: Here you go
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKuPcwtDY6M&feature=plcp[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkyiKy6NpE&feature=plcp[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGL2P7wNMM&feature=plcp[/YOUTUBE]
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/video/actions/embed/dialog/?fbid=510399895651975
Edited by howzzat - 12 years ago
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Posted: 12 years ago
Fivr - Oh so you do start in the Fall term. And hanji, it makes all sense, because that is how my grad school admissions worked for liberal arts too, I just wasn't sure how it works for Med school. My khandaan primarily has law and engineering school people (those who did decide to study that much of course 😆) and then me, but none in med school... But getting picked in the first lot is awesome Fivrayyy; hopefully you've already told your mother and the news has sunk in! 🤗

ps: @real time conversation, almost had it! One dialogue exchange hi sahi!!! 😆 Maybe you'll show up more for a while now that khushkhabri has taken the nerves off?! 😆

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Mash, personally I think there is no debating the characters Sushant has chosen, they have been a range in variation, and utterly convincing in portrayal, but the projects overall, some of the ones he's done, traded off for some he missed feels a tad unfortunate to me! I liked how the segment started with a question about him being underrated, and I agree with what he says about how the opinions he values need to hold high, but he's such a fantastic actor, and some deserved big titles with sound roles always add value to career satisfaction in my opinion.

Nur, Sukhdev was definitely my fave Sushant role ever. It was interesting to find out how it seems to have been the closest role to his own heart too! But 16 December was when I first noticed him and liked him a lot! In fact, I only discovered about Jungle after I liked him that much in 16 December... despite how average the movie itself was. Although, given the kind of Eid and Diwali bumper movies we've been getting the last few years, 16 December wasn't half a ruin!

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@QH - I think KSG's "pained" expressions in reaction to Zoya are, for now, one of the prime entertaining nuances of the show 😆 He does it really well, and at least half the times, he's the face of audience reaction - at least that part of audience which involves me 😆

Also, the contrast of showing KSG's OCD nature vs Zoya's "human" clumsiness is, at least on account of KSG/Asad, still coming off as perpetually compulsive characteristically, rather than contrived. Like that scene yesterday where he enters the house and gets off to putting things straight on the coffee table was, even for being theoretically repetitive, not overdone for me.

Zoya, I'm still only getting used to. Although as far as the "love belief" part for yesterday goes, she was definitely the better one. I'm liking the Dilshad and Asad scenes in general, because they are both decent actors with sober roles that are even somewhat nuanced. On my wishlist, I'd like to get an occasional Shireen and Asad scene 😆

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@MB - If I had to dismiss one character on account of intolerance, it would be Saasuma, and not the witch in green incidentally. In her all righteous slash motherly preachy modes or in her current voodooed conception mode, she is a tick. While watching RK put Deepali in her rightful place is sadistically satisfying, watching him shut up his god-knows-what-floats-her-boat mother was plain relief. The whole family is loony, really, but then so is Madhu's family. RK is the only genuine entertaining aspect of the show, in his interactions even the boring/preachy characters. Ironic enough, for Vivian being so average in general, but RK just suits him (more particularly his body frame) I guess 😆

I do like how they're showing his progress with MB for now. The faith has formed foundation, and in all just reason. I'm glad that despite his whatever scarred past, they haven't shown him as irrational beyond any remote sign of instance. He's stubbornly an egotist, but he's not unrelenting to any unbelieving extent thankfully. And he's not smitten by Madhu at this point, even is his heart is undergoing its own kind of change. What is good to watch is that for someone as lonely and estranged as him, in decent time, he is willing, even encouraging in his own way, of letting someone bring a change to his life. And that transition has been more convincing than not in his case particularly.
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Posted: 12 years ago
Raj, thanks for posting. It seems a Humsafar like love story in many ways, although I like the lead girl much, much better from these teasers at least. Do you know how many episodes are supposed to be aired in total?
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Posted: 12 years ago
LOL considering that Fawad Khan is in it, there's bound to be these Humsafar-like romantic scenes in it. But, atleast for me the biggest draw has to be the story of Umera Ahmed and the lines she writes, there is so much meaning and depth in it.. You are forced to think about it, at the end of it all. Even if you look at the lyrics of the OST, sung by Hadiqa Kiyani they are simply beautiful.

Zindagi Khaak Na Thi Khaak Ura Kay Guzri
Tujh Say Kiya Kehtay Teray Paas Jo Aatay Guzri
Din Jo Guzra Tu Kisi Yaad Ki Ro Mai Guzra
Shaam Aayi Tu Koi Khuwaab Dikhatay Guzri
Tujh Say Kiya Kehtay Teray Paas Jo Aatay Guzri
Acchay Waqton Ki Tamanna Mai Rahi Umar-e-Rawaan
Waqt Aisa Tha Kay Bus Naaz Uthatay Guzri
Tujh Say Kiya Kehtay Teray Paas Jo Aatay Guzri
Raat Kiya Aayi Kay Tanhayi Kay Sargoshi Mai
Ghum Ka Aalam Tha Magar Suntay Sunatay Guzri
Tujh Say Kiya Kehtay Teray Paas Jo Aatay Guzri

Yeah for a change, Sanam Saeed does look refreshing as Kashaf. It will have 25 episodes most prolly.
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Posted: 12 years ago
New TB Article on Veera 😳

No child's play next week on Veera

Friday, November 16, 2012 | 4:07:23 PM IST (+05:30 GMT) 0 Comments
No child's play next week on Veera

Ranvijay will name his sister Veera on the show next week

How can a child take care of a child? That is what exactly is happening in Veera on Star Plus. We see the adorable little boy Ranvijay cradling in his tiny arms a bonny baby. Ranvijay couldn't be happier- he craved for a little sister and has been granted his wish. Writer Raghuvir Shekhawat says, "He is taking care of her in his childlike ways."


His parents however have no peace. The baby though an apple of discord in the household is the best gift ever for Ranvijay. His dad Sampooran is repenting for betraying his wife and is on a guilt trip for being termed as 'the murderer' of his unborn child. His mother Ratan has miscarried her baby and just can't stand the love child of her husband. Sneha Wagh who plays Ratan says, "Here we show a very real trauma for the wife and not the regular TV clich drama. It is going to be a lump in the throat for the audience which I am sure about. My character Ratan inVeera is a strong believer of love and trust in marriage. Once it's broken it's very difficult to get it back as it's not the same anymore."

The very audience who cry 'regressive' if the wife forgives the unfaithful husband have been pointing fingers at the writers as to why Ratan is 'cruelly' ignoring a baby who is after all innocent. The story writer of the show Purnendu Shekhar explains, "If a wife is infidel, the husband isn't likely to forgive her. So why is the wife expected to forgive her errant husband easily?" Writer Raghuvir Shekhawat reasons, "I am reading many reviews which say that the Ratan should take care of the baby. Just three days have passed since she got to know about her husband's love child. She has also lost the baby she was carrying. She needs time to stabilize herself." Our source says that Ratan will ultimately come around and stand up for the baby.

On watching last night's episode it seemed to us that Sampooran was suicidal. Our source however says that he won't be taking his life but will go missing. "He is after all in a state of trance. He is a six feet tall man but can hardly stand on his legs," Raghuvir explains.

Our source says that in the forthcoming episodes it will be revealed as to why Sampooran fathered a love child. That is intended to prove that he is after all not a bad man. Raghuvir says, "Sampooran after all loves and adores his wife."

Next week you will see Raghuvir dressing the baby in the frock that Ratan had kept for the baby she had miscarried, so his mom naturally takes offense to that. He even takes the baby to school trying to hide her from his teacher. The teacher asks him to keep the baby at home. To find names for the baby Ranvijay flips through his course book. While reading out the names from the book he asks the baby to jump at whichever name she likes. The child is namedVeera. He requests his mom to weave her name on a hanky but she refuses point blank. In the Punjabi language the elder brother is called 'Veer'. The name 'Veera' therefore emanates from the word 'Veer'.

Bhavesh Balchandani who plays Ranvijay has been carrying a real baby on the show and not a doll. He says, "She is a sweet baby. I like playing with her."


Author and Reporter: Pallavi Bhattacharya

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