I just got back from watching ‘Mujhse Fraandship Karoge’, a
fairly disappointing movie in the romantic sense. Not much rom...and a little bit of com. Allow me to explain. I don’t
believe I’m a very romantic person, but I know you can’t portray love in the same
way in every darn movie. Boy and girl fight…boy and girl realize they love one
another….boy and girl confess….boy and girl fight again…boy or girl deliver
dialogue at the end to make the audience sigh (and one person groan in pain)
and then they kiss and make up and live happily ever after. Same story…every
darn movie. ‘Break ke Baad’,’I hate luv Stories’,’DDLJ’…..and this one too. Do
you all have to derive your inspiration from ‘When Harry met Sally’…which by
the way, I thought was a very adorable movie.
There has got to be more to romance than this same old
formula. If this were to hold true in real life, I’ve got a very long list of
women I’ve fought with and have put in my ‘mortal enemy for life’ list that I
need to reconnect with. And why do they all have to be sooooooo filmy….yes, I
know, it is a film, but why so filmy? Why can’t you make a normal story without
the melodrama and songs and excessive drinking by boy when he professes love to
girl….or excessive drinking by theater goer because he can’t believe he paid
money to watch THAT movie. Seriously chaps, wise up. I’m a critic, so don’t
come and ask me to write a story for you. (FYI, the Dev D type story was fairly
accurate….I know more stories of that type)
Next bone to pick. Why is it that you always portray the fat
guys as morons? Seriously? Why? Do you have a problem with fat guys? Come on…to
my face you son of a….yeah! Every movie, the fat guy is large, wears goofy
shirts, has a beard, wears glasses and is always the comic relief. Even if it
means you strip him down, give him a guitar and make him do a sick dance on a
webcam for your ‘I used to be a moron and girls like me’ hero to upload on
youtube or something like that. Being a gravitationally challenge person who does
play guitar, I am very offended by the portrayal of my people in your movies.
Also, why is he the only ‘fat guy’ in the entire movie???? You have a college
full of students and there is this one fat guy only? Something is so wrong
here. All you thin people are going to join an IT services company and have
beer bellies by the time you are 30….just watch!
And what’s up with these colleges where these kids study?
All the time they seem to be preparing for some fest, have random guys hanging
around parking lots with their guitars playing some tune or the other, there is
always a bunch of girls practicing for some dance or the other, the principal
is always a fat guy and the main teacher is always this babe type person
(thinking of Sushmita Sen from ‘Main Hoon Na’). And everyone are having a
perpetual good time partying, hanging out, going on long drives and all the
stuff most serious college going kids don’t do. What about real problems? Lack
of money, worrying about exams, no placement in final year, job hunting, having
to hang out with the rich kids when you don’t have very much yourself, problems
about identity, peer pressure, bullying…all that? But no, college is fun guys! All you do is
hang out all the time and get drunk. Weird college people go to in the movies. I
do not want to even get started on the dressing style. And no one seems to be
suffering from acne and none of the guys have hit puberty…..except the hairy
fat guy, but you can’t see the pimples because the beard covers it up.
And what’s with this sudden love for rock bands and rock
stars? Suddenly every hunk is the rockstar of the college….guitar wielding,
lyric belting idiot with his six pack and black vest. And aviator glasses….forgot
important ingredient. And they all get steady gigs and everyone knows them. Please
find me a college going band that has reached this great level of popularity
worthy of the great Anu Malik. Bands in real colleges struggle to have to gain
acceptance because the teaching staff see them as the devil. If they are in a
city like Bengaluru, you won’t get that many gigs to play at except college
fests. It’s not as easy as the movies make it out to be. Idiots.
Also, why the sudden fascination with football ? You cricket supporting buggers suddenly want the Premier League? Sure....moronic hero takes bimbo heroine to a sports bar in the middle of the day to watch a Manchesters united vs Chelsea match. The idiot is hitting on her saying he'll switch sides from ManUtd to Chelsea for her....dear girl, if a guy is willing to switch clubs for you, and that to come from ManUtd to Chelsea, please leave him RIGHT NOW! He will cheat on you! Written guarantee....in blood....S.C.Bose style! And what's with the sports bar where you went to "see" the match and yet you spend time hitting on one another???? I don't get it. And where are the other fans in that darn sports bar or were you two the only coochie-coos there?
All this apart, I managed to sit through the movie owing to
the gorgeous Tara D’Souza and to some extent Saba Azad. At least you made the
way she looked while crying seem almost genuine. The rest of the movie was a somewhat painful affair. Maybe I've outgrown such movies. I should have gone for ‘Real Steel’ instead.
PS: Chicks on Bullet bikes was so Katrina Kaif....so stop doing it!
PS: Chicks on Bullet bikes was so Katrina Kaif....so stop doing it!
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