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Product Description Busy London station. Delayed train from Birmingham. Two strangers waiting for the train... Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) born in Bhatinda, living in London; and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta) more Brit than the Queen herself, however with Lahori blood in her veins.Crowded café. One table to share. Two hours to kill. Perfect setting for the start of a love-story. Hitch? Both Rikki and Alvira are engaged and have come to pick up their fiancés who are coming by the same train. To kill time, they end up telling each other their how I met my fiancé stories.Rikki met his fiancé Anaida (Lara Dutta) at The Ritz (Paris), the same night that Princess Diana and Dodi walked out of the hotel and into the paparazzi. As Rikki says, When two lovers die, another two are a born. They dance... they sing... they're in love!Alvira, a princess by nature discovers her prince at Madame Tussauds. When a gigantic wax model of Superman falls from the ceiling, Alvira is a sitting target. But Steve the Prince (Bobby Deol), a lawyer by profession saves her life but steals her heart! They also sing, they also dance and they also fall in love...Stories unfold, time passes, the two strangers start enjoying each other. That Alvira is a Pakistani Brit and Rikki originally from India... that Rikki is crooked, earthy, and rakish: dabbler in various businesses; that Alvira is prim-n-proper, wannabe blue-blood, stiff upper-lip: Asst. Manager at House of Frasers... none of these details matter. They have gotten alarmingly attracted to each other!Their brief encounter has created a complicated quadrangle... Rikki Thukral and Alvira Khan have gotten themselves and Steve and Anaida into a lovely mess... To get out of it both of them bend over backward, thinking quickly on their feet, dancing around each others emotions... After all when youre playing musical chairs with love, theres nothing you can do but... Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (Dance Baby Dance)! Review Jhoom Barabar Jhoom belongs to Abhishek first and Preity next. Abhishek is in terrific form. It wouldn't be erroneous to state that his performance makes the goings-on watchable at times. A lesser actor would've fallen flat on his face in the absence of a cohesive script. Preity is lovely and takes to her character like a fish to water. In fact, the two actors make an attractive pair. Bobby is relegated to the backseat. Also, would someone please tell Mr. Deol to chop off those locks? Lara Dutta is confident, though she's not in the forefront either. Amitabh Bachchan adds to star-value. He only appears in one song, flashed throughout the movie. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music is quite good. 'Ticket To Hollywood' is the track you carry home. The title track is another foot-tapping composition. Cinematography is exceptional. The film is a visual treat. Choreography [Vaibhavi Merchant] is different, but Abhishek carries it off very well. Aki Narula's costumes are smashing. --www.platform47.com
M**S
Great Bollywood movie
I really enjoy the Bollywood movies and was not disappointed with this. Colour, music and dance
W**R
Very Enjoyable
Enjoyed this film (with subtitles). Good music and dance. Watched while on the treadmill.
S**E
Hilarious
This must be the best Bollywood film ever
S**S
Good dvd
Good quality dvd. Worth it
L**N
entertaining diversion with some good song and dance
The opening item of this really lifts your expectations - good choreography, catchy tune, Amitabh Bachchan doing a guest lead item stint.The story then moves into what turns out to be 2 peoples fantasies. This is part is done in a stereotypes cartoon style with some hammy acting. Not knowing at this point it was a fantasy section it just looks badly acted and the songs corny with the catchy 'Ticket to Bollywood' with corny lyrics.Then we get into reality and it settles down and becomes a reasonable entertainer. overall. It's opening song 'Jhoom Barabar' is repeated several times (when you are on a good thing...)This is where I was introduced to both Bobby Deol and Abhishek Bachchan and was an early Bollywood I saw. I have followed both with interest after this taste (even though they have done a lot more interesting stuff elsewhere).It has some good dance and catchy music and I thought more highly of it after realizing the hammy acting early on was for a reason in the fantasy context. Not the best Bollywood but I've held onto it and will revisit sometime - a bit of light fun for a diversion.
A**R
Spectacular
This is the first Bollywood film I have seen. I only sought it out because it is set in Waterloo station and I worked there at the time it was made, but I was pleasantly surprised by how watchable it was and how genuinely amusing it was at times.The film is stuffed full of some of the biggest names in Bollywood, with a couple of cameo appearances by Sanjiv Bhaskar and Meera Syal from Goodness Gracious Me. It starts when a young man and a young woman meet in the cafe at Waterloo station. They are both waiting for people arriving on different trains and pass the time swapping their life stories, all told in flashbacks.Every now and then an extravagant song and dance routine pops up for no apparent reason, but that only added to the fun for me. I found the songs to be extremely catchy and couldn't stop humming one of them for days.I am told by some Indian friends that this film is considered a bit 'modern' by some of the more traditional Bollywood fans, which makes it an ideal introduction to the genre for those of us not familiar with the culture.I'm still trying to work out how a train from Manchester ended up at Waterloo station - but I didn't let that detract from my enjoyment of the film.
A**D
excellent
Excellent movie with very nice songs, but the story line was a bit boring. I still love the movie
H**D
brilliant
the best movie i've seen in a long time. The best and you can watch it over and over again
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