Beautiful Song from the movie Jodha Akbar: Good lyrics, Good music and Well sung
Kehne ko Jashn-e-bahara hai Ishq yeh dekhke hairaan hai Kehne ko Jashn-e-bahara hai Ishq yeh dekhke hairaan hai
Phool se khusboo khafa khafa hai gulshan mein Chupa hai koi ranj fiza ki chilman mein Sare sehmein nazare hain Soye soye vaqt ke dhare hain Aur dil mein koi khoye si baatein hain
Ooooo hooooo…
Kehne ko Jashn-e-bahara hai Ishq yeh dekhke hairaan hai
Phool se khusboo khafa khafa hai gulshan mein Chupa hai koi ranj fiza ki chilman mein
Kaise kahen kya hai sitam Sochte hai ab yeh hum Koi kaise kahen woh hai ya nahi humare
Karte to hai saath safar Faasle hain phir bhi magar Jaise milte nahi kisi dariya ke do kinare
Pass hain phir bhi paas nahi Humko yeh gum raas nahi Seeshe ki ek diware hai jaise darmiya
Sare sehmein nazare hain Soye soye vaqt ke dhare hain Aur dil mein koi khoye si baatein hain
Oooo hoooo..
Kehne ko Jashn-e-bahara hai Ishq yeh dekhke hairaan hai
Phool se khusboo khafa khafa hai gulshan mein Chupa hai koi ranj fiza ki chilman mein
Hum ne jo tha nagma suna Dil ne tha usko chuna Yeh dastaan humein vaqt ne kaise sunai
Hum jo agar hai gumgee Woh bhi udhar khush to nahi Mulakato mein hai jaise ghul si gai tanhai
Milke bhi hum milte nahi Khilke bhi gul khilte nahi Aankhon mein hai baharein dil mein khiza
Sare sehmein nazare hain Soye soye vaqt ke dhare hain Aur dil mein koi khoye si baatein hain
oooo hoo
Kehne ko Jashan-e-bahara hai Ishq yeh dekhke hairaan hai
Phool se khusboo khafa khafa hai gulshan mein Chupa hai koi ranj fiza ki chilman mein
A good week for watching movies. The second review for movies I watched this week.
Amu- Simple yet very powerful
the central character of the movie is a foreign return girl Kaju played by Konkana sen sharma who left the country when she was 3. Now that she is back in the country she wants to explore her motherland and is more keen to know about the interiors and about the poverty ridden. Among these she was also keen to know about her actual family as she was an adopted child. During her interaction with people she gets to know about the 1984 riots and gets very curious to know about it in details. This coincides with her quest to know about her family as she finds out that her mother had migrated to city before she died and she happened to be living in the region which was most affected by the riots. She falsely assumes some drunkard to be her father as his wife’s initials match with her mother’s. This is the time when she is told everything about her family. The movie enters a flashback mode. She belonged to a Sikh family and her father was killed in the riots. Her mother tried to get some help and in trying to do so, she also loses her baby brother. Her mother shifts with her to a relief camp and there her mother hands her over to her new mother.
It would be inappropriate to say that the movie portrays the sufferings of people well (since those sufferings actually could not be reflected/portrayed at all – The loss and suffering caused is uncomparable). It attempts to reflect on the insane and irrationale behaviour of the Hindu community then. Although at times, it appears to be an attempt to target specifically the Hindu community but a few otherwise instances were sufficient to get the benefit of doubt from me. As far as timing of the movie is concerned, I think it is a bit late and could have been released when the rulings on 1984 riots were announced. Anyways the movie would not be able to cash in huge amounts for being on such a serious and sensitive issue but crititcally, the movie manages to score high for good handling of a sensitive issue, for apt screenplay, an engaing pace and above all its simplicity and effectiveness!
The movie by no means is a commercial movie but for all fans of sensible movies, Amu is yet another treat. All the people sensitive to the social issues are likely to feel touched by the movie.
Going by the rating tradition, Amu manages to score 4 on 5 for its subject, good acting by Konkana Sen Sharma (and others) and a good and engaging pace of the movie. It is indeed an art to present so much sensitive issues in a manner that will heart everybody’s heart and yet not offend anybody.
Jodha Akbar Good direction, Good Sets, Good Acting, Proper dialogue delivery, Proper casting … is sufficient enough to make a successful period movie.
Akbar is a kind hearted king who doesnt believe in inwanted tortures and uncalled wars. His target is to rule whole of the country but with harmony. He believes in making allies(to work under him) and not fighting them for stake. A fight is last resort to him and he would like to do anything to save any bloodsheds and to save honour of his territory. In fulfilling this quest, he is confronted with a difficult condition to marry a Rajput girl. He agrees to marry and also agrees to allow her to keep her religion. This does not pleases some of his family members who try their best to distance Jodha and Akbar. Falling into one such trap, Akbar sends Jodha back to Amer but as soon as he realises his mistake, he himself moves to Amer to get her back. Jodha made her feel that although he can win wars but he knows little about ruling. He gets the point and did a marketing research on what is percieved wrong among common man and he takes immediate actions to bring about changes. Then there are couple of war scenes, which are very similar to the scenes from Troy. Hrithik Roshan does a terrific job in the Mughal getup. Deliviering Urdu dialogue is not that easy but he does it with so ease that one could not help but admire. Aishwarya Rai also displayed extremely good acting display. The emotions are pretty similar to what I was expecting for this being a period movie.
What I think lacked in movie was some focus on Jodha and Akbar. At times movie strayed a bit from the theme but those durations are so small that before someone realises it is off the point, it gets back. So, it doesn’t hurt the movie as such.
Overall a tremendous performance on part of actors, a beautiful job on part of script writer and terrific job as far as costume designer is concerned.
Based on the lively performances by the actors, I would rate Jodha Akbar 3.5 on the scale of 5. There is not much more one could expect from a Period movie.
Why to watch?: Lively performances by actors Good Direction Long yet engaging throughout Good sets Well written dialogues
Why not to watch?: Only if period movies is not your taste and you do not admire Hrithik Roshan or Aishwarya Rai
I had heard a lot about this movie but never had the chance to watch it and then I thought it was too late to spend any time watching an old movie. But things do change and yesterday was a bit different. While browsing through list of available movies on LAN, I came through the name Jogger’s Park and thought ‘why not?’. And to tell you frankly, I have become a huge fan of this movie now. I know you must be aware of story but still just for the sake of background in case you missed it, here is the story: Justice Jyotin Prasad Chatterjee (JC) , one of the most respected judge, retires from the post after serving the nation for 40 years. He has never taken any favours from anybody and has always gave rulings in favour of justice. But now is the difficult thing for him. He, being a judge, never socialised much throughout his life and now being a public figure is afraid of social gatherings. He, who used to be busy all the time with his work, has now nothing at all to do. His family members suggest him to join Jogger’s Park to keep himself fit and busy. Initially he did not like the idea much for the fear of public there but when everybody insists, he agrees to join the Jogger’s Park. There he meets a ‘model cum VJ cum event manager cum hotel manager’- Jenny, who is a big fan of his. The bonding between them gets stronger and stronger and JC feels love for first time in his life (but he has a family!!). The story carries on and a lot of characters are introduced. Then one fine day, Jenny was unwell and JC took him to hospital and Jenny also felt love for JC (Earlier it was mostly regard for him). But JC has a family and there is a big age gap!!. Jenny’s friend told her about Ranjit’s love for her (Ranjit is a famous singer) but she is incapable of deciding anything at the moment due to feelings for JC. Her friend told her not to get carried away with those feelings for JC as that is not love but infatuation. To prove the point, she asks JC to come over to Jenny’s place for a party on the day of JC’s wedding anniversary (which JC did not remember as he was so much involved with Jenny). While he was about to leave, a newpaper editor visits his place and handed over some photographs of him and Jenny that were supposed to be published in next day’s edition but he, being the editor, stopped it from happening for some favour JC had done in past. JC’s daughter gets the photographs and asked him to choose either if the two. JC had no choice but to choose family and they moved to Pune. After 4 years, JC met Jenny at airport and she was married to Ranjit. She was happy.
The movie portrayed that love sees no age barriers, which was portrayed beautifully by running the love story of JC’s granddaughter in parallel. On the other hand was social norms – either it can be about you and your happiness or your responsibilities. Society doesn’t approve of such a behaviour and JC himself gave a ruling against similar case involving his son in family court(A judge never retires in that sense). On the one hand, movie talks about freedom of individual while talking about social norms restricting our actions on the other hand. Director manages to strike a perfect balance between the two, effectively conveying the importance of striking this balance in real life as well. The actors really played the characters well and you can relate to them as common man. Despite of building a plot around high power individuals (which I think was an appropriate act), the characters are representative of the common man and there is no jazz about the high end society. There is just this one story and a very powerful one. There is no redundant story running parallel, which had become quite a common phenomenon lately. The songs are really good and the background score by Usha Uthup, which I earlier thought was irritating, managed to engage me totally into the movie. Hats off to the apt screenplay, awesome music, simple yet effective script and good story.
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