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Designer DREAMS
By ZIYA US SALAM
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It is just the kind of cinema perfected by the likes of Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra, minus their emotional overload.
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MAIN HOON NA
( At Odeon and other Delhi theatres)
AFTER DESIGNER romances, designer campus, here comes a designer take on patriotism. And a film that is supposed to be a designer's delight all the way. From costumes to sets, to even feelings, everything comes packed in cellophane of blinding brilliance. Candyfloss love, pierced belly buttons, flared pants, accented lingo, delirious dances. Just the kind of cinema crafted and perfected by the likes of Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra, minus their emotional overload. What's more, it works in Farah Khan's debut directorial venture. With its mirth, merriment and R.D. Burman's retro-music, it imparts a sense of joy to cinegoers, leaving them smiling, laughing, even swinging along.
All this largely because of the ceaseless energy of Shah Rukh Khan, who after many a summer in the film industry, is still able to pull off the college boy act with a cool disdain. The man was born for it. He is the spark that lights up the most mundane of scenes, and proves here that even minus the trademark hamming he is a force to reckon with. But hey, when did he ever step beyond being the naughty guy always up to some pranks, the guy who stole the laddoos and touched the mother's feet? Never mind. He is good the way he is.
Giving him tantalising company in this film, which is actually nothing but a timeworn tale of brothers separated at birth, is delectable Sushmita Sen. As Shah Rukh's chemistry teacher, she works up a wonderful formula. Her screen presence is magnetic, her smiles infectious and inviting. And the sari has not looked as seductive since the time Sridevi transformed it into an instrument of temptation in Mr India. Sushmita carries her tall figure with stately grace and is very much the fragrance of the film with her lovely tresses, luminous eyes, flowing saris, pouting lips. Alas! Like fragrance, she too is fleeting in the film, leaving the old faithful hoping for more.
Much like the film where the die-hard cannot seem to have enough of fun, right from the time Shah Rukh enters the college as a guy who dropped out 10 years ago. But he is here on a mission. That is to save a girl - Amrita Rao turning hep here after an impressive beginning in Ab Ke Baras - from militants led by Suniel Shetty's Raghav who wants no peace with Pakistan, pardons no broker. By the time Shah Rukh discovers, fights and makes friends with his long lost brother - Zayed Khan, as profound as any member of the bubblegum brigade - and saves the girl, the viewers are treated to some hectic narration, lovely locales, nice music. And good looking guys and girls make a nice, little feast for the eyes.
Yet the film is not all fine. The Pakistan-India friendship and the action at the end is too prolonged for comfort. Also, Shetty seems to have just stepped out of the sets of Rudraksha and continues to be the predictable mean guy with a meaner machine at command. He is as wooden as the chair you will sit on watching this popcorn entertainment.
Watch Main Hoon Na when you are alone and you will enjoy it. Watch it in the company of your best friend, and you will draw closer still. Avoid it, and you may have to wait for a while till another `happy' film comes along to offer some light fun.
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