Cast: Hrithik Roshan , Farhan Akhtar , Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin
Producer: Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Story/screenplay : Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar
Dialogues: Farhan Akhtar
Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan , Ehsaan Noorani , Loy Mendonca
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Rating: ***.5 ( 3.5/5)
Website: http://www.znmdthemovie.com/
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed
The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. Minor details may have been divulged for proper review!
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is about ‘Carpe Diem’, ‘Seize the day’, ‘you only live once’, ‘do what you want to do’,’ face your fears’, ‘fight insecurities’, have adventures, ‘appease your soul’, ‘live out of the box’, make life worth living for………
Its philosophy rings a bell of Robin Williams
philosophizing of carpe diem
seize the day- make your life extra ordinary in Dead Poets Society
; …… Its inspiration seems to be from Hangover
where the groom and his friends go on a bachelors party trip and have many misadventures; …… And it brings memories of a movie about 3 friends with a philosophy of ‘do what your heart wants’ ' Dil Chahta Hai
'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara buddies are copy writer Imraan (Farhan Akhtar
), stock broker Arjun (Hrithik Roshan
) and construction businessman Kabir (Abhay Doel). The adventurous road trip they have is in picturesque Spain
. Their dare devil adventures to challenge their fears and do the extraordinary are Scuba Diving
, Sky Diving
and Running of the Bulls
(Encierro).Besides adventure and thrills it’s about emotions, fears, indulgence, relationships, friends, tender sensitive moments, spontaneous incidents, bonding moments, lively banter, romance, camaraderie, juvenile pranks, and of course carpe diem and realization that zindagi na milegi dobara.
The movie was worth seeing in theatre today with friends and kids. It was a pleasure to the eye seeing beautiful and picturesque Spain in travelogue form on big screen with handsome studs and beautiful babes. There is eloquent poetry and flamenco music for the ear too. The movie on the whole is entertaining and well made but not spectacular as it was rumored to be!
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| Bagwati ;) |
Cast of this movie was excellent with good acting by all. Imran/Farhan Akhtar comes out as the sweet, likable, deep creative writer. His stumbling words and emotions meeting his birth father/Naseeruddin Shah was well emoted.
Arjun/Hrithikh’s character grows from a workaholic focused financial guy to a sensitive, spontaneous person under the influence of a beautiful, free-spirited and spontaneous personality of Laila/ Katrina Kaif. The emotions of accomplishment/contentment depicted by Hrithikh after scuba diving for a non swimmer were excellent. Katrina quite appropriate for the role enacts both the sparkling and tender moments pretty well. Her philosophies of life delivered very subtly and matter of factly was realistic. Her lines of thinking and living out of the box and the box being only for the dead were excellent, of course credit goes to the dialog writer ;)
The stable yet juvenile prankster who has emotional conflicts regarding his wedding is depicted well by Kabir/Abhay Doel. And finally if I didn’t like anyone, it was Natasha/ kalki /'chudail/witch alert', the character was as painful as the actor.
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While the Akhtar’s - Zoya, Farhan and Javed excelled in their contributive parts of direction, production, acting, story and lyrics, the movie could have done better with better editing and avoiding the dragging parts!
There were some flaws and technical gliches too: An obvious one was when Hrithikh Roshan gets a call on his cell in Spain, its on vodaphone service, an exclusive Indian telephone service!!
