My second Bollywood film and first at the cinema, Jab Tak Hai Jaan holds special
significance for the Indian film industry as its famed Director Yash Chopra who
won four Filmfare Best Director awards during his career, died just a couple of
weeks before the film’s premier on 21st October 2012. There are dedications to him both before and
after the film which show a vibrant and seemingly healthy 80 year old Director
behind the scenes, crafting both a film and friendships. His final film is a
romantic drama about a poor Indian living in London
called Samar (Shahrukh Kahn) who falls in love
with a rich girl called Meera (Katrina Kaif). The story is told over ten years
and at times feels as though it is in real time but is told through a young
wannabe Journalist called Akira (Anushka Sharma) who comes across a journal detailing
a fascinating story of love and heartbreak. The journal belongs to Samar, now ten years older and a commander in the Indian
Army Bomb Disposal unit. Akira takes an interest Samar’s
story as well as the man himself.
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Sunday 18 November 2012
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
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2012,
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Wednesday 19 September 2012
My Name is Khan
My Name is Khan is
a film that comes tantalisingly close to perfection but misses out due to a
mixture of a disappointing third act over simplified view of the world.
Nevertheless it is an excellent film, telling the story of a pre and post-9/11
world through the eyes of Indian’s living in America .
Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan) is a mildly autistic Muslim man
who moves to America after
the death of his mother in India .
There, he meets and falls in love with a Hindu woman Mandira (Kajol) who works
as a successful hairdresser in San
Francisco . The film is split into three very distinct
acts with the first being an often light hearted, cute and funny look at
romance, tolerance and love. Khan says that the western world views history in
two epochs; BC and AD but he would add a third, 9/11. Following 9/11 the lives
of the Indian characters, whether Sikh, Hindu or Muslim change for the worse as
racial profiling, racist attacks and xenophobia takes hold thanks to the
anti-Muslim hysteria of the post-9/11 world. There is an appalling tragedy
around the halfway mark which sets up the third act in which Khan travels America to meet
the President and tell him “My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist”.
Labels:
2010,
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Bollywood,
Drama,
Hindi,
Jimmy Shergill,
Kajol,
Karan Johar,
My Name is Khan,
Shahrukh Khan
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