You live in India. Work here, earn here and then you have a family, loving and caring. Enter a girl in your life, you feel good. Love blossoms and first thing you do is walk out in swiss alps to sing with her in your arms. India forgotten for the time being, there are more laughs and good situations and songs all in all you end up marrying.
That was a Feel Good entertainer for you. I won’t be surprised that’s how a size of one feel good movie is. Salaam Namaste is feel good out of India, in Australia to be precise.
A feel good means that protagonist look rich, wear cool brands and they have no other real problems to face except love and crying for love. So feel good.
Hero (SAK) falls for Herione (Priety) and they go living in. Then she gets pregnant because a he cannot hence the problems begin. SAK doesn’t want the baby and more confusion. Some songs before they end up in the mess and some songs after a finale of nonsensical things follows and the movie ends up. FEEL GOOD
It’s a pity to watch such movies and to get confused that what are we supposed to do with it. If the movie had to be a fun filled entertainer why would you make it sensitive in between and explain us baby love. The movie is funny if you choose only to become a laughter track who laughs at everything. So it’s a mixed up movie.
Songs are good but then its nonsense to see pregnant women carrying probably twins dancing and running around. They portray SAK’s emotion coming back as he sees the child inside the womb. I ask if at all he hadn’t then the 2 would have never got back. So proving that Saif loved the baby and not Preity.
The attempts of showing them fight looked half baked, it was looking like Preity yelled for the heck of it and wasn’t at all convincing and Saif all in all seemed a dude, a youngster who was in the wrong place.
Just to drab the sensitivity of people, they make the movie in Australia whereas even India the live ins have begun. Then there are ample dosage of front bench feel good with all those scenes needlessly included. Feel cheap and good at the same time.
Saif Ali Khan wears nice but he is the same, the tom cruise look Saif Ali Khan acting Dude. Preity Zinta personally disappoints me as her antics in shouting looked out of place and overall didn’t had the impact, infact she looked old in many scenes. The comedy was passable and so was the support cast. Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffery were amusing.
Director Sidharth Raj Anand has delivered a senseless feel good entertainer which will work for the people looking for it, not me. The climax is cheap and Abhishek Bachchan disappoints and same for his acting which doesn’t amuse any one in the theatre with who I watched the movie with.
So watch Salaam Namaste for music, foreign locales (half of the people in Dehradoon love the movie for it) and star cast rest it is nonsense no soul movie.
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