Jab Tak Hai Jaan: RIP Yash Chopra

SRK rocks! Just returned home after watching JTHJ in S2 cinemas aka Theyagaraya with a sense of joy that I got last after watching DDLJ. 

 JTHJ, a 2012 release, written and produced by Aditya Chopra and blessed by Yash Chopra. 
JTHJ is a typical Hindi movie and moves you, makes you empathize with SRK and cry with Katrina (I was shocked!) The storyline oozes genius and this movie is a fitting finale to the master storyteller Yash Chopra. Kudos!

 So, Major Samar Anand completely woos the two women in the movie apart from the other women in the theatre. Katrina and Anushka have done a good job dancing to SRK's tunes.


The movie moves effortlessly from London to Leh, India. Songs are shot well and Kat has done the dance number very well. SRK matches Kat well and the audience lapped it up. I sat mesmerized as Major Samar diffused bomb after bomb and made many women's heartbeats miss. 

 Anushka's on-screen striptease took the men by surprise and I heard a few collective sighs, rather subdued so that the wives didn't hear. 

 There were instances I felt the storyline could have been made subtler, but given the way the Yash Chopra romances are shot, JTHJ is a nice attempt. 
Katrina gets the man and Anushka walks away into the sunset with the promise that she will get the Hero in another lifetime. 

 My rating: 4/5  
            
       

      

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  1. Anonymous8:56 PM

    one more yash raj classic, movies are emotional mirrors ...you tend to look for yourself in the characters . ...to all those who I loved , deceived, forgotten and not forgiven ....love is not an event , it is a journey ...I see no difference between divinity and love ...the movie so effortlessly depicts that hormones don't drive love ...they kill it instead ....well most times ...do you a rememeber a dialogue by Rishi kapoor to Katrina ...when he says "har pyaar ka ek time hota hai ..woh time hamara nahin hota " ...was the best part of the movie

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