Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Rahim Chacha is an old family help. He came over to the USA with my siblings and me. These days he visits my siblings once in a while, but thinks of my home as his home. As old as he is, he still insist on doing everything. He cooks & cleans, drives me around, he is the butler as well as the gardener. He is truly family to my siblings and me, and like true family members we subject him to a lot of pranks. We have convinced him that his eye sights are getting weaker. Every time a new Lil C movie comes to town, we take him to see the movie. On seeing Lil C, he always says, “When I see Fardeen Khan, I can see that he is Feroz Khan’s son. When I see Bobby Deol, I can see that he is Dharmendra’s son. When I see Nawab Saif Ali Khan Patuadi, I can see that he is Sharmila’s son, but when I see Lil C, it appears that I am seeing Gulshan Groover’s son”. Ofcourse all he has to do is say that and we pound him till he is convinced that his eyes are getting weaker.
Thanks to Rahim Chacha, I saw “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom” on June 16, 2007. Rahim Chacha’s reaction was, “Kaisi Chali Hai Abh Ki Hawa Tere Shaher Mein, Bunday Bhi Ho Gayein Hai Khudah Tere Shaher Mein”. In the old days of Rahim Chacha there used to be Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Aanad. He also saw the likes of Shammi Kappor, Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra. Unfortunately for him (as he puts it) he has lived to see Lil C, a ugly third class actor with no charisma being shoved down our throats by the media.
As opposed to many, I liked JBJ’s story. I can see why Adi invested in this venture. Nonetheless, the screenplay let the movie down and the dull direction just killed it. If you ask me who screwed up JBJ, I would say it is a toss up between lack luster direction of Shaad Ali and the poor acting of Lil C.
All Lil C had to do was be slightly better than Akshay Kumar (in Namaste London). Now how difficult can that be? But leave it up to Ash’s husband to screw up even a simple job. Instead of a Panju from Batinda, we see a Doodhwalla Bhaiya from Allahbad making all kind of faces. What was Lil C thinking ? Does he not know the difference between Punjab and UP ? He acts in JBJ as if this was some street “Nautanki”. Needless to say Lil C is so lacking in the charisma department that even Huffy Bhai scores over him. As usual, Lil C is very under whelming.
Preity Woman must be furious that after “Salaam Namaste”, she got demoted to a Lil C movie while Adi’s pet Rani, after Bunty & Bubly, got promoted to a Nawab Saif Ali Khan Patuadi movie. Thanks to Saif, Rani has a hit and thanks to Lil C, Preity has a flop.
Bobby Deol was the star in JBJ. He looked great and acted even better. Even in a relatively small role, he steals the show. Do not trust any review which claims that Lil C was better. Bobby did to Lil C in JBJ what HR did to him in Dhoom II. In the first half Bobby plays a rich suave guy and in the second half a nervous nelly. He does both of them so well that I would love to see him more often in comic roles. Along with Preity Woman, and Huffy Bhai he is the life of the movie.
Lara Dutt seriously needs to lose some weight and the less said about Big B the better. No wonder Big B is fast becoming very irrelevant. That Big B laughter close to the wee end of the movie was so fake and it puts into play the question, “Is Bachchalan Burnt Toast?”
At the end of the movie, I teasingly asked Rahim Chacha if he liked the kiss (Lil C kisses Preity Women in JBJ) ? To which Rahim Chacha replied, “You call that a kiss ? Kiss is what HR gave to Ash in Dhoom II”. It is safe to say that we all agree with Rahim Chacha. This was Lil C’s one last chance to prove that he is a contender for a slot in the top fifteen stars of Bollywood, unfortunately even with YRF’s backing, Lil C like a true Bachchan, fell flat on his face.
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It’s High Time Amitabh Bachchan should Retire and let Newcommers come in. At the Moment He is Doing same thing like Making 0’s and not retiring and taking place of others. This Role could have been done by Any Tom, Dick and Harry and would have earned some Money, but Lalchee Bachchan didn’t happened this.
I apologise that I put my short form NKS in previous replies…….I am writing this is just to avoid confusions
@nitin
do u really think amitabh should keep on appearing on screen with his son irrespective of the roles.too much apperance really wont do good for him.i guess now he should concentrate on doing some quality roles .as far as b n b is concerned atleast he had a subtantial role to play.
now coming back to abhi i dont think he is a bad actor.he acts well.but thing is that some sections of media bcoz he is the son of amitabh tend to overhype him n put him in the league of a srk or an aamir or for that matter a hrithik which is sad.these media people even dont know after 8 yrs he still hasnt given what we call an all india hit.guru his 1st solo hit did the best in mumbai followed by delhi.i dont know why they make all these non sense, superficial predictions of him becoming the next superstar.i dont say he cant become but with the kind of track record he has at the boxoffice indicates he is far away from that.
@somadatta
I thought when i exposed you naked lie that you told about amitabh inorder to put bigb down i tought you must be getting some sense……..bu looks like you are out of your mind…….
what do you mean by “doing qualiy roles”???…..Eklavya, Babul, Cheeni kum etc… are these bad roles???
I never saw such shameless guy like you……
Instead of showing your embarassment you ae shamelessly again arguing even though I gave you proper link to proove that he didnt get any reco letter…….you think am i a fool???…..I knew what your intentions were when you said that…..
It was amitabh who came from nowhere and not SRK…….SRK was already a known face on TV when he came to bollywood on bigscreen………he was not an unknown face…..at that tme whatever crap serial came i DD, people use to see that and his serias were popular……..he was even in contact with Aziz mirza who directed circus …….When he came amitabh was already retired and there was not any big superstar like rajesh khanna when amitabh came…..it was not easy for amitabh to become superstar as you are potraying……..
Go and see the authentic interview of the director of first movie and you will get the sense how amitabh got his first movie:
http://www.indiafm.com/features/2007/01/18/2116/index.html
Not only that I also gave you the interview of amitabh that he gave to the whole world
http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19981112/31652184.html
but still such a useless person like you is shamelessly giving illogical statemnt instead of accepting that you were wrong..
AB is a 100% bakwas flop actor.SRK is 100% hit actor.SRK did not have any godfather in film industry whereas ab had his famous father harivansh rai bachan who is a poet.nitin saale uyou dont know anything.you are a idiot.