Rahman ( Slumdog Millionaire) for some energetic songs, thrillingly choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant with suprising eroticism. Here, too, Chopra has brought in Oscar winner A.R. Yes, the film has its silly aspects, but audiences willing to suspend disbelief (why does military man Samar have sexily coiffed and moussed hair, even while camping out on a Ladakhi mountaintop and aren’t those Tibetan Buddhist monks put off by the scantily clad Sharma shaking her behind?) will find much to love.Ĭhopra, an icon credited with creating many of the most distinctive elements of the Bollywood formula over his 40-film producing-directing career, has collaborated with Khan on more than half a dozen projects. Later, working for the Indian army while nursing a broken heart, Samar meets vibrant young journalist Akira (Sharma), who inspires him to be happy - until Samar is felled by that most timeworn of Bollywood film conventions, an accident followed by a case of retrograde amnesia.
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Samar seems to be daring God to kill him, and the reason why is revealed in a flashback that takes up the first third of the film: as a struggling Indian immigrant living in London, Samar fell in love with Meera (Kaif), who reciprocated his passion but felt conflicted because of her own devotion to God - whom a jealous Samar scornfully calls “Mr. STORY: India’s Film Bazaar Shortlists Co-production, Mentoring ProjectsĪt 175 minutes, Jab Tak has a story line too lengthy to recap in detail, though it opens with a scene straight out of The Hurt Locker - Indian army explosives expert Samar Anand (Khan), his country’s best bomb defuser, refuses to wear a protective suit and displays an almost pathological lack of fear as he disarms an IED to save his squadron. Devgn unsuccessfully sued Chopra to try to change Jab Tak Hai Jaan’s clashing release date, but his concern seems unnecessary as crowds are bound to discover Sardaar through positive word-of-mouth - there’s room at the multiplex for everybody. The drawing power of Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma (who costarred with Khan in the charming Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi), combined with a wide Diwali holiday release, will ensure large, appreciative audiences despite competition from actor-producer Ajay Devgn’s broad, crowd-pleasing comedy Son of Sardaar. STORY: India Chooses ‘Barfi!’ for Oscars Foreign-Language Entry