JAB WE MET - Rating 4/5

No, this isn’t one of those young mushy love stories that you might expect when entering the hall. For most of the film there is no tear-jerking, spending life together promises or for that fact even romance. What you have is something really fresh to come onto Indian cinema.

Opposites attract. These two are opposites. There is some sort of chemistry between them. But it’s not the one which makes Hindi cinema couples dance around trees in the fields of Punjab. It’s just the way one looks at life and how the other manages to influence it with ones own eccentricities.

The hero of the show is definitely the script and the dialogues. Mix that up with wonderful performances and you have a really fine movie. Kareena Kapoor’s lines deserve top honour as those are probably the highlight of the film.

Pritam has come out with probably his best score after Metro where almost all the songs are foot-tapping. They are infused with the music perfectly and the feeling of unnecessary need of songs in the screenplay is never there.

Whether rumors of Shahid and Kareena’s break-up is true or not, one has to say that this is the best chemistry they have shown on-screen yet. Their Fida, Chupke Chupke and 36 Chinatown might have left the audiences disappointed but hey, fourth time’s the charm.

Kareena Kapoor might have been irritating in Khushi , but with a character on similar lines, one would have expected an encore but she manages to bring out of her finest performance. She could have easily gone over the top but full marks to her and the director for extracting a fine feat.

Shahid Kapoor too does a wonderful job as the jilted lover who gets a new approach in life. He picks up from where he left off in Sooraj Barjatya’s Vivah but this time only better.

To sum it up, Jab We Met is a very refreshing fare and one of the better films to come out in recent times. There is innocence but no mush, there is a whole lot of non-sense but then you realize it makes sense, there is something about Jab We Met which you end up loving. So people, before the Om Shanti Om and Saawariya fever catches up in the weeks to come watch this one for a rocking time. (Rating 4/5)