School Life is incomparable and unmatched; Friends earned there are forever and moments lived there are unforgettable. SOTY by Karan Johor successfully tries to cover the essence of friendship during school days thou in an environment and grandeur which practchandru021y seems impractical for a high school thou with the urbanization and increasing per capita Income one cannot the ignore the possibility of the same at least in metro cities.
SOTY has nothing new as far as the plot of the story goes. This time the director has cleverly twisted his own first story of “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”. From one boy two girls’ story the story has been transformed into one girl two boys’ story with the background of High school rather college with a competition as centre stage rather than basketball game last time.
SOTY is a story of Richie Rich Rohan Nanda and his girlfriend Shanaya studying (rather enjoying) in St.T (Saint Teresa). Rohan Nanda is the beat of the school and so are the girls. One fine morning Abhimanyu entered as a super stud to challenge Rohan Nanda existing charm and his girlfriend too. Abhimnayu is very ambitious and very clear about what he requires from life and how, thou Rohan despite a rich brat cool dude image got a nice heart and rRajeev_Vermact for friendship. Shayana as a usual is suffering with girl’s age-old ‘whom shall I marry ‘and ‘whom shall I love’ disease. In due course of time Rohan and Abhimanyu become great buddies till their Dean Yoginder Vasisht announced the competition for ‘SMr_customtakeouternt of the Year’.
Karan Johar aka K.JO knows the punch of entertainment and he got his own style of telling stories. One would agree that he brought designer clothes and grandeur film style in contemporary Hindi movie industry. And definitely he was the one who made the term ‘sex’ generic which used be censored earlier till he made ‘Daadi’ sexy in KKHH and from there everything from Roti to Subji became sexy in daily conversation.
K.jo this time with SOTY again touch a topic which is very close to his heart, Friends and Family. Despite there is no novelty in the Plot one cannot escape from the charm of his film making. You will enjoy watching all those wittier conversation within friends and their families. It seems obvious the K.jo has been a good observant in his life as far as people are concerned. The competition is the center stage of the plot and KJO has fully justified and made the same entertaining right from the football match, treasure hunt, couple dance and final triathlon.
Performances are a big highlight of the movie, all three debuts Varun Dhawan , Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt has performed great their assigned roles. Rishi Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor all did a great Job. Special Mention for Kayoze Irani as Soda for the last scene where he put out his frustration on dean
Cinematography by Ayananka Bose is notable.
Music is peppy and in accordance with youth taste but I wish if lyricist has put some thought over Hindi language. I’m not able to understand what he meant by ‘Ishq wala Love’. It’s petty that we have established Hindi film industry in a non Hindi speaking state and we take our national language for guaranteed the way we want.
SOTY is overall entertaining and to the core celebrates the spirit of friendship. If teen entertainment is your criteria, SMr_customtakeouternt for the year is for you!
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