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Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif.
Yash Chopra's final film, "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" ("Till My Last Breath"), raises the stakes on Bollywood romance to potentially explosive levels. The superstar Shah Rukh Khan plays Samar, an expert bomb defuser who hides behind sunglasses and nerves of steel in India, where he has fled after Meera (Katrina Kaif) breaks his heart in London.
How his past romance all went down is explained through a prolonged flashback involving amnesia, pacts with God, a hit and run, and a percussive warehouse-party dance number. Along the way there are sideline gigs as a busker, a fishmonger and a waiter. Once the film catches us up, a fresh complication arises when a sassy young intern from a TV show, Akira (Anushka Sharma), gets hooked on Samar while shooting a documentary on his work.
A love triangle develops that is as intricate and death-defying as a prisoner's dilemma. Even though the film drags, the magic of Bollywood is that this story's muddle of twists only clarifies the urgency behind the undying desires of all concerned parties. And beyond showing the requisite London landmarks, Mr. Chopra pans over earth and heavens in typically spectacular shots of Samar in Kashmir as he goes about his dangerous business. (Mr. Chopra, a Bollywood giant, died in October at 80.)
Mr. Khan charms and swaggers about, holding onto marquee status even in a post-amnesia hospital-bed scene that has him wearing an absurd nipple-tight shirt. Would that his co-star Ms. Kaif, who has great fun with a "Rent"-dress-code warehouse dance, didn't have, at key moments, the expressiveness of pudding.
But when Akira flirts with Samar while he defuses a bomb on a bridge ' from which they hang in harnesses ' "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" reaches some new acme of oblivious romantic folly.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Opened on Tuesday nationwide.
Directed by Yash Chopra; written by Aditya Chopra and Devika Bhagat; director of photography, Anil Mehta; edited by Namrata Rao; music by A. R. Rahman; choreography by Vaibhavi Merchant; production design by Sharmishta Roy; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 55 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: Shah Rukh Khan (Samar), Katrina Kaif (Meera) and Anushka Sharma
From YRF: "JTHJ Opened at No. 4 on the UK Box Office charts and is the highest midweek and weekend grossing Bollywood Film ever"@iamsrk
YASH CHOPRA'S "JAB TAK HAI JAAN"… A WORLDWIDE BLOCKBUSTER! 19 November 2012 |
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This content was originally posted by: PuffinHypercitySunny Malik ?@sunnymalikFrom YRF: "JTHJ Opened at No. 4 on the UK Box Office charts and is the highest midweek and weekend grossing Bollywood Film ever"@iamsrk
New Delhi: Yash Chopra's heroines were always the strongest points of his films. From Rakhee to Madhuri Dixit, the female leads of Chopra's films were the epitome of elegance and quiet feminism. The director chose the beautiful Katrina Kaif and the bubbly Anushka Sharma for his last film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' - the two forming the contrasting sides of a complicated romance triangle.
Paired against the man acknowledged widely as Bollywood's 'King of Romance', how has Katrina fared in the film? Has she seen it through to the finishing line or failed to leave her imprint?
First, the good news. It isn't easy holding your own when you are paired against a giant like Shah Rukh Khan. And Katrina's nervousness showed in intimate scenes. But as a rich London girl, living life on her own terms, Katrina is in her elements. This is the world she knows inside out and fits easily into the rhythm of church-going, partying, grounded Indian girl who accidentally meets a boy who is to become her destiny.
The bad news is Katrina's acting is still a problem. She is yet to adjust to the expectations of Bollywood. Heroines here are expected to be self-sacrificing goddesses of virtue. While new age cinema directors have started to experiment with roles, the traditional conditions set for heroines still largely influence the way they behave on screen. Meera's role was a difficult one and Katrina falls short in emotional scenes.
It seems Katrina still doesn't feel very easy in front of the camera and has difficulty with complex expressions. But boy she can dance! Her warehouse party dance number will go down in history as one of the best.
Shah Rukh is one of the finest romantic heroes Bollywood has, and his experience with the viewers and different directors forces him to overpower the heroines in romantic scenes. It takes a strong heroine to show her acting talent without downsizing the superstar opposite her.
Anushka Sharma excels to some extent in the film because her role was loud and gave her the freedom to go over the top, but Katrina didn't have such freedom. She wasn't playing the typical chiffon clad damsel who could dance in the snow clad Kashmir or Switzerland, and this enhanced her problems, because now the exotic locales were not at her assistance and she had to fall back on her acting.
She is a veteran by now but she hasn't done many films that were centred solely on her like JTHJ was, and she looked like she was finding it difficult to grab the complete attention in scenes.
She's excellent as your girl-next-door in frothy romantic comedies like Mere Brother Ki Dulhan. But in Bollywood dramas her acting needs work.
Katrina's brushed up on her Hindi but it will take her some more years to truly be considered as an acting heavyweight in the industry
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