Margaritas & miaows

The Dilemma (or Paheli)

If you have seen Parineeta, then you have seen Saggy Over-rated Rekha sing Kaisey Yeh Paheli hai Zindagi (bracketing about how if I pay good money I want to see some inspiring shaded cleavage and tight abs and not ancient Rekha still thinking that using 4 layers of Pancake and raising over-arched eyebrow can make her an item number) -which means what a conundrum life is – (and score for Fabulous Nish as she uses big word she can spell and know the meaning of) And that is actually how I knew what the movie Paheli, a SRK production was all about.

So, the familia went off to see Paheli – A SRK production and a Amol Palekar directed story. And my expectations were dashed - Because you know, if you see it – you would really think the only problem Rani Mukherji would have in life is choosing between the pseudo-antique emerald set or the pseudo-antique ruby set.

Am I too critical? Because the movie is shot beautifully – the whole Rajastan=colour idea executed superbly. And the CG is also not bad – but first the plot.

Lacchi (Rani Mukherji) is young woman, who gets married to Kishenlal (a bumbling whipped SRK) who always obeys stingy baniya father (played brilliantly by Anupam Kher) who leave her the morning after the wedding without consummating the wedding. And on the trip from the wedding venue to the sasural, a ghost sees Lacchi and falls in love and decides to take on SRK’s avtar and land up as her lover.

So, Lachhi takes brave (yea, right – she getting laid what is so brave about that???) decision to sleep with ghost since rightful husband is away making money.

The problems start when the original Kishenlal wonders why his family has forgotten him and deiceds to come back – this is the kahani mein twist time when Rani is about to have ghost baby (which reminds me of SR (Stupendous Rash not Shah Rukh) joke which goes what do you call ghost with Veneral Disease???? STD bhooth – hehehehhe)

So, Anupam Kher decides to take both Kishenlal’s to the Raja to decide which one is the real one and they bump into goatherd played again brilliantly by Amitabh Bacchhan.

I am slightly disturbed by the trend of technically brilliant films with no soul – this movie is beautiful and performances are excellent for the most part. I have no idea why Juhi Chawla dressed to the heebyjeeby nines and Sunil Shetty have been given walk-on parts, unless SRK thinks they are lucky mascots or something. I am a bit ODed on Rani, who does a competent job.
However, there are so many nuances and dialogues that I missed because all the Tanishq jewellery and crazy-heavy sarees totally distracted me.

So, I would recommend people go watch this movie but only if you are a SRK fan. Or you need to preview some nice jewellery!!! Or wanted to do Rajasthan toursim without all the heat & dust and with much prettier people to see.

posted by Nish @ 12:33 PM