'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom' - a musical chairs of love
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Atypical
narration, unusual characters, lots of colour and good music are some
of the significant features of Shaad Ali's films and his latest "Jhoom
Barabar Jhoom", releasing Friday, promises the same. Starring
A-list actors - Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta
and Lara Dutta, this is Ali's third film. His earlier two releases -
"Saathiya" and "Bunty Aur Babli" - were huge hits.
Set in London, "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" is essentially a love story.
Rikki
Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta) are forced
to share a table in a crowded cafй at a London station and they have to
bear each other for two hours. While Rikki is born in Bhatinda and
lives in London, Alvira is more Brit than the Queen herself, however
with Lahori blood in her veins.
Perfect setting for the start of
a love-story but there is a small hitch. Both of them are engaged and
have come to pick up their fiancйs who are coming by the same train.
But the train gets delayed and they end up telling each other their "how I met my fiancй" stories to kill time.
Rikki
met his fiancй Anaida (Lara Dutta) at The Ritz (Paris), the same night
that Princess Diana and Dodi walked out of the hotel and into the
paparazzi.
Alvira, a princess by nature, discovers her prince at
Madame Tussaud's. When a gigantic wax model of Superman falls from the
ceiling, Alvira is a sitting target. But Steve (Bobby Deol), a lawyer
by profession, saves her life but steals her heart. They fall in love...
Stories
unfold, time passes, the two strangers start enjoying each other's
company and their backgrounds become inconsequential.
A snoot,
Alvira is a Pakistani Brit but doesn't mind the company of the downtown
boy Rikki. While Rikki is crooked, earthy, and rakish and dabbles in
various businesses, Alvira is prim-n-proper, wannabe blue blood and an
assistant manager at House of Fraser. None of these details matter and
they get alarmingly attracted to each other!
Their brief
encounter creates a complicated quadrangle... Rikki and Alvira have
gotten themselves and Steve and Anaida into a lovely mess.
To
get out of it both of them bend over backwards, thinking quickly and
dancing around each other's emotions. After all when you're playing
musical chairs with love, there's nothing you can do but Jhoom barabar
jhoom.
Most of the biggies this year got a lukewarm response
at the box office and all eyes are set on "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" as Ali
has so far lived up to everybody's expectations.
Will he be third time lucky?
Music
is the soul of all Bollywood films and the songs of "Jhoom Barabar
Jhoom" are already a rage, increasing people's eagerness to watch the
film.
Indo-Asian News Service
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