Wrinkles Aaj Kal
by on 11 Sep 2009
I just celebrated my 24th birthday last month and went through a very disturbing week-long realization that I am no longer 19. It has been a while since I got out of college, I don’t even know what this year’s Janpath spring collection looked like.
Sigh! It’s a tough business, this whole coming to terms with your age. But the sooner you see it, the better or you end up dancing to “and we twist, we twist, we twist” with a very tiring and wrinkled expression on your face, like our dear friend Saif. Chote nawab is having a hard time accepting the number of candles on his cake. Gone are the days when one could carry off a “haathon mein aa gaya jo kal, rumaal aapka” on those young shoulders. To give the otherwise hot looking devil his due, he is a great actor and I dare not raise a finger against his talent after movies like Pareenita, Ek Haseena Thi and Omkara. But he’s just not young anymore. And to that add Deepika Padukone who is in the pink of her youth. I would not want to comment on her acting but to be fair, she can at least dance. I am not sure why Imtiaz Ali who is generally so good with his characters chose this particular combination for this particular story.
I am also not sure if I want to start on the story. I am no film critic and I don’t know the first thing about plot and screenplay but I do know that if this film was trying to portray the young generation then it did not make me very happy. It’s one thing to say this generation is practical about love but the film just showed these two as very irresponsible. The honeymoon dilemma scene, “main tumse baad mein maafi maang loongi”??? the dialogues are just too forced. “Break up Party! Ajeeb lagta hai na? Toh zaroor karenge!” Ummmm…okay, if you say so.
I get the intent behind the film but it just did not come out right. That practicality may only be a farce in the matters of the heart and that young and old love are really not very different is all fine but most actors just ended up as stock characters with no development. The music however carried the film and made the trip to the hall worth it. Din Chadeya and Chor Bazari will play for a long long time. But one must not forget the one person who stood out in all this mess – Rishi Kapoor. “Puttar main apni jawani mein khatarnak kisam ka handsome hua karta tha” – now that’s a dialogue I couldn’t agree with more.
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