{"id":711,"date":"2007-11-17T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2007\/11\/review-jab-we-met-2.html"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:35:14","slug":"review-jab-we-met-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2007\/11\/review-jab-we-met-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Review : Jab we met"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Rating : Above average (3.6\/5)<\/strong>
\n Genre : Comedy \/ Drama<\/strong>
\n Year : 2007<\/strong>
\n Running time : 2 hours 24 minutes<\/strong>
\n Director : Imtiaz Ali<\/strong>
\n Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora, Kiran Joneja, Divya Seth<\/strong><\/p>\n

JAB WE MET : ROMANCE DONE RIGHT !
\n<\/i>
\nThis film is the cutesy kind of romantic flick, which has been such a nice, breezy watch, that you hate to nitpick. Ali\u2019s second directorial venture after \u201cSocha na tha\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, he does it again, producing an entertaining film which exudes bonhomie and good humor. Yes, it is filmi, but it\u2019s a commercial film, and will never be considered India\u2019s entry to the Oscars, so I\u2019m quite comfy with it not being all arty-sharty. And yes, the second half does get a little heavy and stretched, but for an unassuming film to come out of nowhere, and give me three hours of enjoyment, where hyped-up big banner films are crashing like the duds that they are, warms the cockles of one\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

Aditya Kashyap (Shahid Kapur), a very rich, young industrialist, leaves home after a stressful time, and meets up with Geet (Kareena), a bubbly, vivacious, pretty young Sardarni, who talks nineteen to the dozen. Geet, once she\u2019s figured out that Aditya is running away from something, offers her help, and won\u2019t take no for an answer. All Aditya wants is to be left alone, so someone like garrulous Geet is anathema. However fate intervenes to throw them together for a couple of days. Things go all awkward when Aditya finds himself falling for Geet, who\u2019s all set to start her new life with the love of her life, Anshuman (Tarun). . .<\/p>\n

Shahid and Kareena make a charming pair; the chemistry definitely helps the film. Kareena gives a pretty good performance, her best after Omkara<\/a>,<\/strong> and channels her natural perkiness into Geet\u2019s attractive yet borderline annoying character. Since the film majorly hinges on Geet\u2019s character, it is to her credit that the film works; any other actress and I\u2019d have been champing at the bit. Shahid does really well too, appearing suave, and sweet, and nice \u2013 quite the prince on the white steed.<\/p>\n

The film is mainly about the two young things, and their journey from being mere co-passengers on a train to potential soul-mates. So the conversation is young, and fresh and sounds like real talk. The characters, which encompass Aditya\u2019s family (an estranged mom played by Hum Log\u2019s Manjhli Divya Seth – anyone remember Hum Log<\/a> ?) and Geet\u2019s Punjabi parivar complete with mother (Kiran Joneja), father, sister, Chacha, and grand-father, are a tad filmi and cliched, (because like ALL Punjabis in the universe, they live in a palatial bungalow with a large central courtyard, drink tons of lassi, and dance the bhangra at the drop of a hat) but still pretty well-developed and believable. And the film works because we really do care about Geet and Aditya, their lives, and problems, and how they end up.<\/p>\n

Ali takes us through a light, breezy first half. Lots of sparkly, and funny dialogue, mostly courtesy Geet\u2019s non-stop chatter (she wonders what the difference is between a mountain and a hill, while Aditya deadpans), and Aditya\u2019s taciturn responses, grace the first 1.5 hours. The second half takes a more serious downturn and relies on emotion, and feelings rather heavily. The direction is fairly tight, and the story pretty innovative. I mean it\u2019s still boy meets girl etc., but told with such lightness of spirit, and humor, that it doesn\u2019t seem jaded at all. Into the film, Ali also manages to sprinkle tasteful ditties on life and love \u2013 quite a nice change from the vulgar innuendoes one has gotten used to seeing in Desi cinema. The film has very good music. \u201cNagada, nagada\u201d and \u201cMauja, mauja\u201d are 2 catchy Bhangra based numbers. I also loved \u201cYeh Ishq hai\u201d although the music seemed familiar, sort of.<\/p>\n

Although a classy film, please use your judgement when taking kids to see it; a few dialogues contain references to rape, and there\u2019s a liplock at the end of the film. Compared to all the terrible trash spewed out in films like Partner<\/a>, Golmaal<\/a><\/strong> etc, this might seem like peanuts, but still. All in all, JWM is an entertaining 2.5 hours, and well worth your money and your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rating : Above average (3.6\/5) Genre : Comedy \/ Drama Year : 2007 Running time : 2 hours 24 minutes Director : Imtiaz Ali Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora, Kiran Joneja, Divya Seth JAB WE MET : … Continue reading →<\/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":[51,90,76,22,10,179,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-51","category-all-netflix","category-bollywood","category-comedy","category-family-friendly","category-hindi-movies-on-netflix","category-rating-g","category-recommended"],"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":9,"uagb_excerpt":"Rating : Above average (3.6\/5) Genre : Comedy \/ Drama Year : 2007 Running time : 2 hours 24 minutes Director : Imtiaz Ali Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora, Kiran Joneja, Divya Seth JAB WE MET : … Continue reading →","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45CAb-bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}