My wife has seen this movie many years ago and she loved it! So I bought the original DVD for her and watched it yesterday with her. It was a twisted love story. Viren (Anil Kapoor) is in love with Pallavi (Sridevi) but she doesn't love him back. She marries an other guy and both of them die in a car accident.
But before dying Pallavi gives birth to a baby named Puja (Sridevi). Puja grows up and falls in love with Viren. But Puja is just a little girl and Viren is an old man. Viren is about to marry an other woman, but Puja is sure Viren is in love with her. Is he? Or is he in love with her face that reminds him his love for her mother.
It is sixteen years now that this movie has been made. I have always been a fan of Anupam Kher and Anil Kapoor. Even since they have been in the movie Karma with Jacky Shroff. These guys know what acting is, in a natural way. In other words; they don't have to do much to give a great performance. Sridevi on the other side cannot act. Even for that time (1991) her acting is lousy. There is a lovesong in the movie with Anil Kapoor and Shridevi. Beautiful song even when the lines are repeated again and again and again. That didn't disturb me. It disturbed me that Sridevi banged her head around and around when she sang a specific line.
Even when she plays a little girl she doesn't do that convincingly. I can see a lot of similarities in Yash Chopra's films, this movie compared to DDLJ, KKKG and KKHH. I liked that a lot! I liked the tour through Enlgand, because I have been there last weekend too! The movie was great, but not that great to be a blockbuster. It is very twisted to make a relationship between a very little girl (let's say 16 years old) and a grown man (maybe 35 years old). There are elderly people in the story like the woman who took care of Viren and Puja and Viren's best friend (Anupamkher). Neither of the two tells Puja not to fall in love with an older man. No, they support such a crazy relationship! If my daughter would fall in love with such an older man, I would not support that at all! If there would come a girl in my life who is the daughter of an ex-girlfriend, I would not allow myself to fall in love with her. I wonder if Abishek Bachchan would fall in love with a 65 years old woman who had a crush on his father, but his father not on her, so he would begin a lovestory with this old woman. I don't think so! Or wait! Female Sharukh Khan fans have still a chance! Sharukh has a ten years old son. When he grows up as a man, you all grown up woman still make a chance to fall in love with Shahrukh by beginning a relationship with his son! The movie is well done, but you can expect that from a couple like Yash Chopra and Karan Johar. But that doesn't mean a story could not be twisted. It's like the movies of Amitabh Bachchan nowadays; an old man with a too much younger girl. Had Bollywood gone mad? I put my mind open for different people, like gay people, people with deceases like aids. But a grandfather with a girl in the age of his daughter or granddaughter? I find it very amusing Bollywood has gone that way. It's like giving pedophiles the stimulance in there sexual needs.
Besides these arguments the movie was great. :-)
But before dying Pallavi gives birth to a baby named Puja (Sridevi). Puja grows up and falls in love with Viren. But Puja is just a little girl and Viren is an old man. Viren is about to marry an other woman, but Puja is sure Viren is in love with her. Is he? Or is he in love with her face that reminds him his love for her mother.
It is sixteen years now that this movie has been made. I have always been a fan of Anupam Kher and Anil Kapoor. Even since they have been in the movie Karma with Jacky Shroff. These guys know what acting is, in a natural way. In other words; they don't have to do much to give a great performance. Sridevi on the other side cannot act. Even for that time (1991) her acting is lousy. There is a lovesong in the movie with Anil Kapoor and Shridevi. Beautiful song even when the lines are repeated again and again and again. That didn't disturb me. It disturbed me that Sridevi banged her head around and around when she sang a specific line.
Even when she plays a little girl she doesn't do that convincingly. I can see a lot of similarities in Yash Chopra's films, this movie compared to DDLJ, KKKG and KKHH. I liked that a lot! I liked the tour through Enlgand, because I have been there last weekend too! The movie was great, but not that great to be a blockbuster. It is very twisted to make a relationship between a very little girl (let's say 16 years old) and a grown man (maybe 35 years old). There are elderly people in the story like the woman who took care of Viren and Puja and Viren's best friend (Anupamkher). Neither of the two tells Puja not to fall in love with an older man. No, they support such a crazy relationship! If my daughter would fall in love with such an older man, I would not support that at all! If there would come a girl in my life who is the daughter of an ex-girlfriend, I would not allow myself to fall in love with her. I wonder if Abishek Bachchan would fall in love with a 65 years old woman who had a crush on his father, but his father not on her, so he would begin a lovestory with this old woman. I don't think so! Or wait! Female Sharukh Khan fans have still a chance! Sharukh has a ten years old son. When he grows up as a man, you all grown up woman still make a chance to fall in love with Shahrukh by beginning a relationship with his son! The movie is well done, but you can expect that from a couple like Yash Chopra and Karan Johar. But that doesn't mean a story could not be twisted. It's like the movies of Amitabh Bachchan nowadays; an old man with a too much younger girl. Had Bollywood gone mad? I put my mind open for different people, like gay people, people with deceases like aids. But a grandfather with a girl in the age of his daughter or granddaughter? I find it very amusing Bollywood has gone that way. It's like giving pedophiles the stimulance in there sexual needs.
Besides these arguments the movie was great. :-)