This film can be best summed up as 3½ hours of sentimental, monotonous punishment. How anyone can sit through this movie is simply unthinkable. I had to see this film in four seperate sitting. Do not see this movie on a heavy stomach. The contents of your insides my end up on the TV screen after watching this trash!!
The story is about a family of two sons (Sharukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan) and their parents (Amitabh and Jaya Bachan) and a few girls. The Eldest son who was adopted as a child marries a girl from a lower social class. So dad gets really pissed of and tells him to get the hell out. So he goes off to London and stays there for 10 years. The younger son goes looking for him and brings him back. That’s it. End of story.
So how does this this one paragraph stretch into 3 hours and 28 minutes. Very clever use of absolutely slow moving camera. Long loooong pauses between slow dialogues. Lots and lots of slow motion photography. And a song and dance sequence every 15 minutes. There is no obvious change in tone or pace in the story line. There is enough tears and sobs to fill 10 Hindi movies. Everyone cries in this film for no obvious reason. The music in this film is exactly 8 bars of melody that is looped at various speeds by changing the instruments occasionally. This film can probably hit the record for the longest sob scenes in film history.
Most of the human species preserve our looks to some degree regardless of how old or how trim you become. I have been able to recognize my friends who studied with me 15 years ago in school.The two brothers meet after 10 years of separation. The older brother can’t recognize the younger brother in this story. Hardcore Bollywood material !!!
Amithabh Bachan looks as if he is deeply saddened about his role in this silly film. Most of the time you can see that he is utterly disgusted with the film crew for making him do this sad excuse for cinema. He sports a rather indifferent look. Of particular interest would be when Jaya Bachan, who plays his wife in the film. sits besides him in the swing towards the end of the film and tells him what a sir-piss-alot he has been for not being a good husband. This is not acting my friends this is real pain. I feel sorry for this great actor. Everyone else seems to be enjoying the film.
Ultimately this trash will sell, because we can’t seem to change our taste.
The American Heritage Dictionary gives the meaning of tripe as
1) The rubbery lining of the stomach of cattle or other ruminants, used as food
2) Something of no value; rubbish.
Thats what this film is. Sentimental tripe.