Qutub Minar
If one wants to know how one can be thoroughly confused about relationships and ones feelings one should NOT watch this movie because it leaves you even more
confused.
First confusion starts with ‘where is the movie set? They use words like ‘Golden Gate’ , ‘London’, ‘San Fransisco’, ‘Fresco’, ‘Delhi’ Calcutta and show
scenes of all these continents in the first five minutes. No one can read the titles and cast because the scenes from all these cities with Saif Ali Khan all
over the place (world) confuse our minds so much that you are left holding that popcorn in your fingers for the next five minutes.
In a nutshell Saif and Deepika go around for 2 yrs in London and then break up (at an actual break -up party) and go separate ways. They both meet different people and when Rahul proposes to marry Deepika, she asks Saif who BTW has come to meet Deepika in Delhi and ditches his current Swiss GF to see Delhi in December. In some confusion Deepika marries Rahul and tells him the next day that she is ‘Sorry’ and they take a divorce. Saif starts his career (well…I’m not sure as what) at Golden Gate, San Fransisco. A year later he gets mugged and he realises he loves Deepika and then a happy ending at Delhi where the lovers meet again. In middle of this all he is guided by Rishi Kapoor, a rich restaurateur, who for some reason looks like Saif in his youth and marries the girl of his dreams, Harleen.
The movie kick starts a tirade of questions in the minds of actors as well as viewers.
Actors:
- Saif : Should I be committed to my current GF or should I become ‘khula saand‘ and flirt around. (The question is valid in movie as well as in his life)
- Saif : Im nearly 40 yr old so should I still bicycle around a 19yr old college girl?
- Deepika :Why do I call my ex-boyfriend to my wedding and then become numb throughout the wedding ceremony?
- Deepika :I can blatantly tell everyone ‘I know Im Hot’ but can not say ‘NO’ to the proposal of a guy Im completely sure I do not want to marry.
- Harleen’s logical question : Do I need to produce the movie to get more than 4 lines of dialogue?
- Rishi’s mind blowing question : Why does everything change in 20 years and why cant new generation can not think like us oldies?
Viewers :
- Why do the actors not need warm woollens in December in Delhi and how can one celebrate New Years at Qutub Minar!!?
- Why is Rishi Kapoor the ONLY good actor in the movie?
- When will these 40yr old actors understand that growing long hair only makes them look older?
- When will Saif stop wearing trendy clothes and stop using ladies bags and pleaaase stop trying to look like a 20 yr old (American Born Confused Desi) ?
- Why does Deepika wear ‘Im pregnant’ clothes and hide her stunning figure in the song ‘Chor Bazaari‘?
- Why does Saif speak so much in the movie ? In fact when Deepika herself initiates to meet him at her wedding she speaks not a single word and Saif rattles on non stop.
- Are today’s women so stupid that it takes them an entire lavish wedding to understand ‘I know I shouldn’t have married you’.My heart goes out for poor Rahul Khanna, the real victim in all the confusion who is rejected exactly a day after his marriage.
- Are today’s men so silly that they will carry their ex-girlfriend’s photo for four years in their pocket and realise that that they love her only when they get mugged?
The editing in the later part of the movie is excellent but poor execution makes a good story line fall flat. The retro colours and sets are beautiful so you may watch the movie to see the sweet love developing in 60s only if you can ignore the fact that even a good actor like Saif can be made to look like a bad actor by giving him non-humorous dialogues and wrong clothes.
