THE LAST LETTER TO THE KING OF ROMANCE: REVIEW OF JAB TAK HAI JAAN

                                 

Dearest Uncle Yash,                              

Happy Diwali! I hope you are happy wherever you are. As a Diwali treat for myself; and a way of paying tribute to you, I bought a movie ticket for Jab Tak Hai Jaan. I went alone, with a big muffler tied around my neck, I am down with cold, but how could I missed it. I had other reasons that made me go for the movie’s first-day’ second show (12:30 pm). Well, I wanted to know whether SRK died at the end, as per the popular rumour it was supposed to be so and I did want to know of the two heroines which one gets Samar Anand (SRK’s name in the movie). Thanks for making the popular rumour a pure exaggeration, and thanks for making me understand that the second heroine is second heroine indeed, and at the end of the picture the lady which occupies the larger portion of the promotional poster gets the hero. I liked the witty lines in the movie, and I like Anushka Sharma’s name Akira. In fact, Akira is the liveliest of all the characters, and I could not stop but admire her long legs. I am sure that Katrina as Meera gave you a hard time to make her act. She wore awesome designer clothes, matching accessories, hot boots, non-animal tested make-ups, she was beautiful, your archetypical heroine, but other than that she was frozen by the London’s winter.

The ‘Get Real Please’ part of the movie is that SRK as a bomb defusing expert does not use any protection jacket (and he is the suppose to have the record of being the highest bomb defuser in the WORLD), he has his reasons for not using the jacket and it is well cited in the movie, but come on he is not Captain Planet no?  Please don’t mind but don’t you think there was too much of accident in the movie, but I am happy that you handled the memory lost part very well; I mean you did not allow SRK to dirty the room or his body like Amir did in Ghajini. The songs were fine not all, though, I really liked the ‘Challa’ song; the background score was excellent, after all, A.R.Rahman. Uncle, don’t you worry, your movie will be a super-duper hit, after all, the movie’s contender is Son of Sardar and not Talaash, so stay cool. Come the Award functions and I bet that your Jab Tak Hai Jaan will take away most or all the awards, and there are many reasons attached to it, let me not get political, but I could like you to get the Best Director Award posthumously.

Let me say that it was not your best movie but it is indeed a remarkable movie and will always be in my mind jab tak hai jaan. Tired of reading such a long letter? Okay, I will stop here.

                                                                                                   

Love

Ayangti Longkumer