Cast
Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin
Director
Zoya Akhtar
The film has 3 stars in their own right yet it employs them as actors over heroes. There are no heroic entries, stylized background score or larger than life action. The entire film is shot in virgin locations of Spain, yet the beauty of the picturesque country is used only as a catalyst and not as a gimmick in this road flick. And though the film has characters like a possessive girlfriend, a flirtatious friend, an illegitimate father and immense scope for melodrama, it remains subtle and lighthearted throughout. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara remains true to its narrative and is as much unadulterated as the fun the three boys have, indulging in untried adventure sports.
Their primary characters, Kabir, Imran, Arjun, Natasha and Laila, are the people you are or may have seen or may have hung out with. School friends, Kabir (Abhay Deol), Imran (Farhan Akhtar) and Arjun (Hrithik Roshan) had made a pact to try out an adventure sport of their choice when they meet next. With Kabir getting married to Natasha (Kalki Koechlin), they take off for Spain in the belief that you are blessed with life only once and there won't be another time.
During the journey, their outer shells are peeled off and their true lives are revealed to one another. Emerging stronger from the experience, they are prepared to live their lives moment by moment, taking pleasure in what they have than bother over what they don't.
The story doesn't examine their lives in detail, so we are not privy to much information except for maybe Imran's lifelong dream to meet his biological father. Kabir's mom and dad are the standard stereotypes of affluent parents while Arjun mentions his dad passed away quite early. Which is why, he argues to Laila (Katrina Kaif), he thinks of money as his greatest joy.
In a life-altering moment, Laila prods him to ask himself if this is what gives him happiness and whether he's missing out on joys life has in store for him. For Imran, a similar epiphany strikes when his father, throwing his paint-dripped hands up in the air, refuses to accept him. For Kabir, it's whether he's getting married too early more importantly, is Natasha the girl he really loves?
Hrithik Roshan and Abhay Deol are excellent. Katrina doesn’t have much to do, and though she is projected as a fun-loving girl who lives every moment, she could have been a little more open and outgoing. Smiling and dishing out lessons on life is about the only things she does.
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I don't know about the Critics and their Ratings?! If 3 for ZNMD than i just wonder what exactly they see as a Good Movie. Guys learn to appreciate good movies.
ReplyDeleteI will Give... 4.25/5