Kudos to producer Karan Johar and director Tarun Mansukhani for daring to make a film with two dashing male leads pretending to be homosexuals, in a country like India, where the word ‘gay’ is still a taboo. Watch it for Akshay and Katrina, and for some good old ‘desi’ (Indian) romance and comedy!
By the end, the selfless love towers above all and the hip and hot, ‘Jas’ finds the Indian ‘Jasmeet’, who was somewhere locked up inside her and realizes her true feelings for ‘Arjun’. Together, Akshay and Katrina make a very good looking couple with sweet chemistry. ‘Tum picture e nahi dekhti kya’ (Don’t you watch movies?) will be that one dialogue of his that you will most remember from the film! As far as Katrina Kaif is concerned, this is hands down her best performance, more so since the character of the British Indian girl fitted her really well.
Just don’t expect this film to be a rather intellectual and thoughtful romance and you would find yourself fairly entertained! For one, this is one of the most sincere performances of Akshay Kumar in the last decade and it is perhaps because of that honesty on his face that you buy into the love story of ‘Arjun’ and ‘Jas’. I still somehow feel that the film could have been better as far as the content goes, (blame it on my high hopes after watching Ayan Mukherji’s first film, ‘Wake Up Sid’) but nevertheless it was a pretty decent watch!Īlthough the most talked about aspect of ‘Namastey London’ over the years has been that one scene where a proud Indian, Arjun Singh (Akshay Kumar) shuts up a racist British man by giving him an overdose of ‘Bharatiya Sabhyata’ (Indian Culture), I would say that there are quite a few more things to like in the film. Although, YJHD is more about friendship than romance, Deepika’s Naina and Ranbir’s Bunny have some genuinely endearing as well as fun moments. Also, with Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor coming together for the first time after their break up, the audiences were very much eager to see the film. And why not? It has great looking people (Deepika and Ranbir looked every bit the ideal Bollywood pair), scenic locations, chartbuster songs (each song in the album was a huge hit, with the biggest ones being ‘Badtameez Dil’ and ‘Balam Pichkari’) and all the ingredients of a run-of-the-mill Bollywood blockbuster. ‘Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani’ has been a favourite with the masses from the time it was released.
A well-written romantic comedy, Hasee Toh Phasee will definitely win your hearts! This is also one of Siddharth Malhotra’s better performances and he complements Parineeti perfectly. Also, ‘Zehnaseeb’ was the ideal song to articulate their feelings! Parineeti as the quirky, genius scientist is witty, charming and a shift from the typical projection of Bollywood heroines. The romance here is not the ‘I will bring down the stars’ kind of romance, but more in the comfort that the two share. Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra have an easy chemistry in the film, that transforms from friendship to love beautifully. It is one of the few movies in the 2010s that can be actually termed as a pure romantic comedy. Indeed, no less a figure than Barack Obama quoted it during his inaugural visit to India in 2015.I had absolutely no expectations when I watched ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ for the first time, but the film managed to surprise me pleasantly. Raj’s line – ‘Senorita bade bade desho me aisi choti choti baatein hoti rehti’ (‘Senorita, don’t get stressed by the little things’) – has crossed into daily usage. The hit song ‘Tujhe Dekha To…’ sees Simran and Raj reunited in Punjab’s rolling fields, and its lingering gazes and passionate embraces are old school Bollywood at its finest. This ultimate romance also raised the bar impossibly high for guys chasing girls. The popularity of the film (the title translates as ‘The brave-hearted will take away the bride’) is reflected in the fact that it has screened daily in Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema for 19 years and counting. She goes InterRailing in Europe, meets Raj and they fall in love against the backdrop of Swiss mountains.
In London, Raj (Khan) is an immature young man, while straight-laced Simran (Kajol) is all set for a marriage arranged by her domineering father. Familiar themes of personal choice versus family responsibility, and of forbidden love, are remixed for the 1990s in this epic, era-defining romance.
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