Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Even though i haven't blogged for a few days , i've been a busy bee of late.....i've been designing myself a new template, i scoured the net for one but couldn't find one that was "me" so to speak. So i thought what could be more me than something that i had made myself. Because my computer design skills aren't all that it's taken quite a while to get it done so watch this space as it will be coming very soon... Also i've been cooking/ making things, which has meant that i've got a huge backlog of posts that i had planned (including cooking/creative ones) so i'm probably going to be posting a few posts at a time until i post about everything i had intended....but for the moment back to the topic in hand....

I went to watch this film with an open mind, I had seen the advert quite a few times on B4U movies (!) and they didn’t give too much away about the storyline (after watching the film I now know this was because there was no story line!). I was also very intrigued by Amitabh Bachan’s travelling musician outfit and his long grey locks…….
So the film opens at Waterloo train station where the manageress of House of Fraser (who is seen in the church one minute and wearing a niqaab the next??) and a dodgy dealing Del boy type character meet and both are allegedly waiting for their fiancés, whose trains are delayed by two hours. Thus the manageress and the Indian version of Del boy proceed to tell each other how they met their “fiancés” (shown to the audience in flashbacks) who are both very glamorous and rich (a top dog lawyer and a French hotel manager (who has the most ridiculous Urdu pronunciation!! )) . Then there is the final flashback which is the “what if we hadn’t met our fiancés and fallen in love with each other scenario?”, which I think was one of the best parts of the film, being the only bit set in India, having the best song and the nicest clothes! And so with the ending of the flashbacks the trains arrive and numbers are exchanged. There is the inevitable rendezvous between manageress, Del boy and their “fiancés” at a dance competition, cue several more songs, all variants of the first and by now the ending is very predictable. Although I liked the India bit the best, I found myself feeling quite fond of the second half of the film set in London, which had the familiar air of British films such as Bend it Like Beckham, as well as having guest appearances from the cast of Goodness Gracious Me. But the highlight of the film was seeing Abishek Bachan and the other guy, on a double motorbike thingy, driving down a London road , to the sound of a gloriously old Bollywood song, it brought a smile to my face. Overall the film was a diluted version of more classic Bollywood films, it had a weak love triangle, it had weak humour, it just didn’t have the emotion and passion that Bollywood is known for and despite the fact that there was two kissing scenes there was little chemistry between the characters.