{"id":636,"date":"2009-11-02T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/11\/movie-preview-ajab-prem-ki-ghazab-kahani-2.html"},"modified":"2011-06-14T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:40:10","slug":"movie-preview-ajab-prem-ki-ghazab-kahani-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/11\/movie-preview-ajab-prem-ki-ghazab-kahani-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Preview : Ajab prem ki ghazab kahani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Kumar Santoshi has directed a bunch of films, \u201cAndaz Apna Apna\u201d, \u201cPukar\u201d and \u201cDamini\u201d being the better known ones. His most recent film <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/review-halla-bol.html\">&#8220;Halla bol&#8221;<\/a> didn&#8217;t do too well. This time he attempts a romantic comedy with the flavor of the month, Ranbir Kapoor, and the actress who\u2019s had a flurry of films lately \u2013 the comely Katrina Kaif. <\/p>\n<p>Of course if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajabpremkighazabkahani.tips.in\">Official Website<\/a> is anything to go by, this film might be a dud. There\u2019s Kapoor doing a Saawariya, with a towel. He\u2019s also in one of the stills, in what looks to be woman\u2019s dress. And in the promos, he\u2019s hamming it up. Not good signs, any of them. This film is a romance, so hopefully there\u2019ll be more to it than him being the President of Happy Club.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s Prem (Ranbir) and Jennifer or Jenny (Katrina). Prem is quite &#8220;ajab&#8221; and this is his &#8220;ghazab&#8221; ki kahani &#8211; you do see the clever punning by Santoshi &#038; Co., don&#8217;t you ? OK then, so Prem falls in love with Jenny who\u2019s already in love with someone else. He also inadvertently kidnaps her (not sure how that works) and she now loathes him, while he adores her, and thinks her vanilla ice-cream (hmm\u2026 this is starting to weird me out). Somewhere in there he also makes jalebis while wearing khaki shorts, so maybe he\u2019s a halwai-in-training ?<\/p>\n<p>The whole never-do-well, goofy guys cleaning up their act, after meeting the perfect woman thing is getting a tad clich\u00e9d. Didn\u2019t Ranbir just play the same role in <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/movie-review-wake-up-sid.html\"> \u201cWake up Sid\u201d<\/a> ? Katrina&#8217;s the peppy, young thing &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/review-new-york.html\">yet again<\/a>. But on the bright side, two of the songs in the film have been sung by Atif Aslam, in his gorgeously soulful voice, and they turn out beautifully, especially &#8220;Tera hone laga hoon&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-zQiY6bEYQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This film is aimed at the younger crowd, and I\u2019m going by the look of the promos and the Website, and their \u2018apparent\u201d desire to be so cool and hip, and narrate in comic form.  And everytime they get \u201ccomic-y\u201d (remember <a href=\"http:\/\/hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/review-hum-tum.html\">Hum Tum<\/a> ?), it ends up looking juvenile and losing appeal. So I do hope that there\u2019s more meat in the film, and they are not so fixated on working the \u201cmasala\u201d in that they forget that there\u2019s more to a film than that. Santoshi generally isn\u2019t all fluff so that gives me hope, although which schmuck is behind the silly Website (and OMG, this doesn&#8217;t bear thinking about, but will the movie be as silly as that?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raj Kumar Santoshi has directed a bunch of films, \u201cAndaz Apna Apna\u201d, \u201cPukar\u201d and \u201cDamini\u201d being the better known ones. His most recent film &#8220;Halla bol&#8221; didn&#8217;t do too well. This time he attempts a romantic comedy with the flavor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2009\/11\/movie-preview-ajab-prem-ki-ghazab-kahani-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-previews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Raj Kumar Santoshi has directed a bunch of films, \u201cAndaz Apna Apna\u201d, \u201cPukar\u201d and \u201cDamini\u201d being the better known ones. 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