Namastey London has romance, humour, emotion and drama. It is the love story of a husband trying to win his wife over with the belief that true love always triumphs.Although the story concept is not novel, the script is interesting as it introduces the not so perfect female protagonist which is rarely seen in bollywood.As you saw me last time [NAMESAKE], I had written a small review.so here is a try.for the **descriptive review.
Story:
Jasmeet Singh or Jazz[Katrina Kaif]** has been born and brought up in the UK although she is an Indian. A headstrong girl she has adopted the culture of Britain but somewhere deep down the Indian values have been buried. She is in love with a British, good for nothing guy but her father[Rishi Kapoor] is totally against their relationship and whisks her off to India. He gets Jazz married to a simple Punjabi guy Arjun[Akshay] with traditional values. Jazz and Arjun go back to the UK and Arjun hopes that he and his wife will be happy. Unfortunately Jazz has some other plans on reaching UK; she wants to ditch Arjun and is still in love with her British boyfriend.
Arjun is heartbroken when he finds out that Jazz does not love him, but instead of being upset he decides to win her over with his ways as he truly loves her. Will Jazz accept her marriage and Arjun or will she leave him and go to her British boyfriend? Will true love triumph? Will Arjun’s love win over Jazz.Well you can always guess this ending.
I’ll leave you wondering "WHY THR’S NO MENTION OF OTHER CAST".
*Stats
Direction: **Vipul Shah has managed to depict the relationship between Katrina-Rishi Kapoor, Akshay-Katrina in a very sensitive manner. He has also explored several other facets of an Indian living in the UK such as racism and even the growing generation gap between Indian born parents and their young kids who have been born and brought up in the UK. Vipul has brought out the characteristics of Arjun and Jazz’s roles extremely well. He has taken care of all the finer nuances like costumes, make-up and looks of the characters
Acting: Performances are sincere and depict effort and hard work put in by the actors. Akshay Kumar as the simple Punjabi guy but one with strong Indian roots comes across as convincing in his role. Katrina Kaif’s profound effort too is clearly visible in her fine performance. Rishi Kapoor delivers a noteworthy performance after a long gap and he is both funny and sensitive. Upen Patel too delivers a fare performance and definitely shows a lot of promise. The rest of the cast too deliver average and likeable performances in the film.
Positives: The film has a well balanced dose of masala in the form of song and dance, romance and even humor.There’s also loads of drama with Arjun’s large Punjabi family and the rugby tournaments bring in the fun element. The climax though predictable has a feel good factor to it. The cinematography with the beautiful locales of UK as well as the green pastures of Punjab is noteworthy.
Negatives: Apart from all those above stated positives, The film is long, very long indeed, I mean it. s Songs are terribelee placed, Only tracks Chankhna.one playin in starting credits n Rafta are good enuf.Thr are total of more than 6 songs which is most irritating. The movie has slow pace in the first halv due to narration part. Some scenes of Upen Patel n a foriegn artist[forgot her name] are disastrous.
*Few Good Scenes:
#Rishi interviewing some wannabe grooms.
# Akshay’s entry.
# Akshay knowing the truth in London.
# Rugby Sequence.
Overall^. This movie will be liked by most of the audiences reciding in India as it has a usual, simple but effective script.In a word "VERY GOOD"
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