Om Prakash's "Aakhir Kyon".įrom Raj Kapoor to J. The shaadi song where Kajal dresses up her rival in love as a bride and sings and dances at her own husband's wedding (see how Priyanka takes on the competition) conveys the enchantment of Raj Kapoor's "Ram Teri Ganga Maili".Īnd when Bobby Deol commands his utterly devoted wife to sign on the divorce paper he reminds you of Rakesh Roshan ruthlessly demanding separation from Smita Patil in J. There're constant if unconscious homages to the cinema greats. The focus of interest isn't what's being said, but what the spoken words and the saturated background score (Salim-Suleiman) would like us to hear beyond the shrill clarion call of a shehnai (pipe instrument) that the filmmaker plays as a sort of an old-world wedding bard. is he just being a cardboard cad? Or does Deol symbolise the very real and contemporary dilemma of the average small-townsman who wants to get 'there'?ĭirector Suneel Darshan's vision impales the three main characters in a familiar and played-out triangle. When he moves to the US (city unnamed) to pursue his dreams, sell car designs to BMW and gets engaged to the rich heiress Anna (Bipasha Basu, looking slim and svelte). Smilingly returns the cheque that hubby dear wants to give his dumpedĭeol's passage to spousal indifference could have been charted more convincingly. The divorce papers she immediately builds a new life for herself, and Wimpish husband (Bobby Deol, suitably cast) forces the wife to sign And yet Priyanka Chopra is no walkover either.
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It's easy and trendy to be ultra-cynical about a film like "Barsaat" where the values propagated and the images generated seem to have emanated from a frozen time of movie montages that date back to the oldest tradition of the kitschy formula.Īnd yet to deny the archaic magnetism of "Barsaat" is to deny the most renewable traditions of Hindi cinema.Īmidst a torrent of indifferent Nadeem-Shravan songs that pin down the plot, "Barsaat" is a film that manages to squeeze in an important message for deserted wives. In "Barsaat" she reveals that rare ability, which Sridevi possessed to rise above the screen material and lack of support from co-stars to prove herself a complete scene stealer, since she lifts many of the most mundane moments in this old fashioned, and at times pale melodrama. Within a year Priyanka has grown into a formidable screen queen. Singh and Rumi Jaffrey.īut you sure as hell can't take your eyes off this lady as she performs a role that requires her to be coy and captivating, strong and sobbing, demure and dynamic.
You may not agree with Kajal, aka Priyanka Chopra, and the pungent wisdom that's thrust on her by dialogue writers K.K.
We don't have a Hindi word for divorce because the concept is alien to our culture." Want to do something so foolhardy), is asked: "What's the Hindi word for Wife Priyanka Chopra (only god and the script writer know why anyone would At a filmy picnic theĭisgruntled husband Bobby Deol, who wants to divorce his stunningly desirable