Sunday, 31 March 2013

Jab We Met (2007)

I had earlier written that this movie has joined the list of movies I can watch anytime, and it is true. I watched it recently again, and I marveled at Imtiaz Ali’s direction. He understands relationships, and keeps his stories largely realistic.

The lead pair (Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor) was seeing each other in real life and broke up during the course of making this movie. I admire their professionalism in completing this movie, particularly that of Shahid. It is reportedly Kareena who wanted to move on.

The scene in which Kareena’s character Geet Dhillon verbally abuses the jerk, her boyfriend Anshuman (played by Tarun Arora) is a delight. Anshuman dumps her because she suddenly appears in front of him. He is faced with several fears and asks her not to get in touch with him. Post that, Geet spends nine months on her own in Shimla without any contact with her family. Geet had earlier helped Shahid’s character Aditya Kashyap overcome the hurt caused by his break-up with his girlfriend (she marries someone else and he attends her wedding to top it all), and now Aditya helps her overcome her hurt.

When the coward sees Geet with Aditya, he suddenly desires her again and wants to be nice to her. Jerks must not be given a second chance, and the movie thankfully shows the same.

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