Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

I got to watch a hindi movie after a looong while, and I believe this is the first one I watched in theatre. Well, I’m not a big fan of bollywood movies, but I did not think this movie was totally useless.

In a nutshell, the plot is about 2 ppl, getting into a relationship without love, and the guy faking a different personality to win the love of his wife. Well, it is not this simple, but I wouldn’t wanna ruin it for those who dint watch it yet.

As any hindi movie, this puts too much drama in every thing. The way the 2 ppl gets in to the relationship, the sudden ability of the guy to emulate a very different personality and few other aspects take this a bit further from being very realistic. Forexample, the extreme lack of intimacy in the original relationship, the inability of the wife to see through the very little disguise, the fight with the sumo player, the guy knowing exactly how to make the girl happy in his disguise and not even making the faintest sign in his original self are few of the points that make the plot a bit unrealistic.

Having said that, I still found the underlying messages somewhat interesting.
1. Dancing classes are great places to pick up women
2. Never let your wife go to a dance class alone. :D
yeh… i was just kidding..
1. One interesting idea is the tendency to look outside your relationships to get what you are missing, and overlooking some important things in your original relationship. This is not a very rare situation in any real relationship, and the conflict of choices between the exciting new relationship and the boring existing one seem to be well communicated, although I feel this plot is not the best way to present that theme.

2. The other theme I find interesting is the struggle of the guy including changing his personality to win the love of his wife. The conflict inside him between these personalities is also interesting, since he knows, although it wins the love of his wife, the new personality is not the real him. I believe, he not wanting to change himself to suit the relationship, and expecting his wife to appreciate his silent acts of love is very understandable. Because, changing one’s self to suit a relationship is not gonna be very effective in the long run, in my opinion.

The acting of Sharukh Khan, I thought, was really good, showing lot of emotion. And there were many funny moments, that do make u laugh.

But like many hindi movies, this wasn’t a very intelligent movie. The plot wasn’t the most realistic, and the movie was very one dimensional. In the main guy’s role, the only aspect shown is his relationship with his wife. His professional relationships, other personal relationships, or any other aspect wasn’t discussed much. This movie reminded me a bit of “Shall we dance”, and the conflicts the guy in that faced, with his family and the new interest. Shall we dance, in comparisan presented a lot wider perspective of the character. I don’t get why most of the hindi movies present relationships as the soul/main purpose of life, which is not a realtity for most people now.

I wouldn’t know exactly how this ranks against other hindi movies, but I think this is a good movie in bollywood standards. If you are looking for some light humour and romance, and not mind the unrealistic plot, I believe you would enjoy this one. Well at least I did..