Beat me if you want to but I cant stop comparing.
The subject which Karan Johar deals with is serious and delicate.
Extra martial affairs of married perons. It is quite clear that this
not new or bold approach. Silsila (1981), which coincidently stars Amitabh, also deal with somewhat same subject. Closer (2004) seems source of inspiration to KANK. Well, there is nothing wrong in inspiration.
It is definate, for most of rural Indians this movie will come as
great shock. The movie tells the story about affair between two
persons, who are unsatisfied and unhappy in marriage relations with
their respective partners.
The story is interesting enough and watchable. You can call it five
stars, may not for the rating purpose, but for the casting todays
biggest stars of Bollywood. Presence of these stars prevails heavily
over the sotry line and story becomes of secondary importance, which is
large drawback.
Further, the movie is little less gripping, blanks and
gaps leave you wondering.For example, at a crucial moment , when
Abhishek and Priety Zinta meet and discuss problems about their
partners and decide to call them for forgiveness . Unfortuantely cell
of Shahrukh and Rani were engaged, so voicemail messages were left.
However, these messages were never seemed to be recovered, at least I
did not notice anywhere. I eagerly waited and wished that the messages
were listned to but it never happend.
The message conveyed by the movie is somewhat clear, if a person is not happy with a relation s/he should quit the relation.
One can argue either way, after all morality is subjective, so it is
left to everybody’s own discreation weather movie deals with
the subject properly or not.
But the treatment of the movie is of my main concern. The movie
could have been made more thoughtful with deeper pentration in personal
feelings. It is not that movies are made purely for entertainment and
again it is not that Indian viewers do not accept serious stuff. BLACK
is latest example of taste of Indian viewers.
In the movie you can hardly found a painful soul. Sharukh finds
difficult to appear as frustrated man in a relation. Pritey acts
natually as a career oriented woman, who claims to wear pant in the
house. Abhishek, a party organiser and night creature expects warmath
and affection from his wife. Rani disappoints as a characteer who is
disappointed in every walk of life , primarily for her incapacity to
bear child. Amitabh, casanova father of Abhishek is good as he gets ,
but entirely unnecssary fo the story.
All the aspects of the movie are good but they are not complimentry to each other and make mess of everything. Dont’ watch just for the sake of Amitabh, Sharukh, Abhishek, Priety or Rani.