It’s been quite a while since I saw a good Bollywood movie, so when the craving didn’t stop after watching Kabi Kushi Kabi Gham or Kutch Kutch Hota Hai VCDs (for a hundred of times ;-p), I went to the VCD store and bought some promising titles.
Salaam Namaste (SN) was one of the movies I chose. Starring Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta this movie was easily picked. Just like Shahrukh and Kajol’s duo, I always think that Saif and Preity have a great chemistry—especially in Kal Ho Na Ho. Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra, the movie’s major plot was said to be based upon US’ Nine Months.
Two Indians, Nikhil Arora, called Nick, (Saif Ali Khan) and Ambar Malhotra, called Amby, (Preity Zinta) left India in order to live their own lives in Melbourne, Australia: Nick finished studying Architecture in his hometown of Ludhiana and moved to Australia, to pursue dreams of becoming a chef, and does so at a restaurant called "Nick of Time", which provides him with his laid-back lifestyle (and he can get up late in the morning); Ambar left her home due to her parent's persistence to get her married—they are likely to introduce the entire male Indian population to her if she does not choose a suitor—and is studying to become a surgeon. When Nikhil is supposed to do an interview for the Australia based Indian radio station "Salaam Namaste", he is late (due to oversleeping), so a war of very public words ensues with the RJ of the show, Ambar Malhotra.
The bickering war was soon to be replaced with attraction. Nick and Amby admitted their mutual affection toward each other, and then decided to live together. Everything was haven to them; they were even enjoying premarital sexual relationship—This was SHOCKING to me!! After all it was a Bolly and not a Holly. They even have sex scenes! Mild ones, of course, but still! Talk about cultural revolution! Hehehe. But their casual relationship was soon to be tested when Amby found out that she’s pregnant, and Nick was still insisting on his strong opinions about marriage and children, which are: not to have them.
The songs and dances were surprisingly not really great considering this was Yash Raj Films’ production. I was more of a “traditional Indian dances than beach’s dancing rave” type of person, of course; I missed all the pretty saris. And just like most of the Bollywood’s movies, you definitely can already guess the ending of SN; the process to reach it was the thing that made me watch them. In SN, the process was quite fun, the typical Indian movie lines or scenes were nicely welcome, nothing really annoying—except for some parts in the movie’s last minutes.
Ah, but speaking about annoying, what’s with Zinta’s maternal clothing? I was soooo like to strangle the wardrobe people! Yes yes, we know she’s playing a pregnant woman, already, must you all show her lower pregnant belly peeking from her shirt? Couldn’t find something more suitable for her to wear or something?
Over all, it was only an okay movie for me, but was tasty enough to satisfy my Bollywood’s craving.
Trivia:
- Mother and son in the bookshop Saif Ali Khan's character visits are actor Arshad Warsi's real-life wife and son, Maria and Zeke.
- This was the first Bollywood film to be shot entirely in Australia.
- Preity Zinta's real life boyfriend, Ness Wadia has an appearance as the man reading the newspaper who Preity sits next to whilst on the bus.
- The film was one of the biggest box-office smashes of 2005 in India and has done well overseas.
- The success of the film marked the fifth hit for Yashraj Films since 2004.
- “Ben & Jerry’s ice cream mentioning”, again! What’s with this ice cream anyway? Is it really that yummy?
Casts: Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi, Abhishek Bachchan Producer: Yash Raj Films Director: Siddharth Anand Runtime: 158 min Language: English / Hindi, 2005
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaam_Namaste
Salaam Namaste (SN) was one of the movies I chose. Starring Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta this movie was easily picked. Just like Shahrukh and Kajol’s duo, I always think that Saif and Preity have a great chemistry—especially in Kal Ho Na Ho. Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra, the movie’s major plot was said to be based upon US’ Nine Months.
Two Indians, Nikhil Arora, called Nick, (Saif Ali Khan) and Ambar Malhotra, called Amby, (Preity Zinta) left India in order to live their own lives in Melbourne, Australia: Nick finished studying Architecture in his hometown of Ludhiana and moved to Australia, to pursue dreams of becoming a chef, and does so at a restaurant called "Nick of Time", which provides him with his laid-back lifestyle (and he can get up late in the morning); Ambar left her home due to her parent's persistence to get her married—they are likely to introduce the entire male Indian population to her if she does not choose a suitor—and is studying to become a surgeon. When Nikhil is supposed to do an interview for the Australia based Indian radio station "Salaam Namaste", he is late (due to oversleeping), so a war of very public words ensues with the RJ of the show, Ambar Malhotra.
The bickering war was soon to be replaced with attraction. Nick and Amby admitted their mutual affection toward each other, and then decided to live together. Everything was haven to them; they were even enjoying premarital sexual relationship—This was SHOCKING to me!! After all it was a Bolly and not a Holly. They even have sex scenes! Mild ones, of course, but still! Talk about cultural revolution! Hehehe. But their casual relationship was soon to be tested when Amby found out that she’s pregnant, and Nick was still insisting on his strong opinions about marriage and children, which are: not to have them.
The songs and dances were surprisingly not really great considering this was Yash Raj Films’ production. I was more of a “traditional Indian dances than beach’s dancing rave” type of person, of course; I missed all the pretty saris. And just like most of the Bollywood’s movies, you definitely can already guess the ending of SN; the process to reach it was the thing that made me watch them. In SN, the process was quite fun, the typical Indian movie lines or scenes were nicely welcome, nothing really annoying—except for some parts in the movie’s last minutes.Ah, but speaking about annoying, what’s with Zinta’s maternal clothing? I was soooo like to strangle the wardrobe people! Yes yes, we know she’s playing a pregnant woman, already, must you all show her lower pregnant belly peeking from her shirt? Couldn’t find something more suitable for her to wear or something?
Over all, it was only an okay movie for me, but was tasty enough to satisfy my Bollywood’s craving.
Trivia:
- Mother and son in the bookshop Saif Ali Khan's character visits are actor Arshad Warsi's real-life wife and son, Maria and Zeke.
- This was the first Bollywood film to be shot entirely in Australia.
- Preity Zinta's real life boyfriend, Ness Wadia has an appearance as the man reading the newspaper who Preity sits next to whilst on the bus.
- The film was one of the biggest box-office smashes of 2005 in India and has done well overseas.
- The success of the film marked the fifth hit for Yashraj Films since 2004.
- “Ben & Jerry’s ice cream mentioning”, again! What’s with this ice cream anyway? Is it really that yummy?
Casts: Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi, Abhishek Bachchan Producer: Yash Raj Films Director: Siddharth Anand Runtime: 158 min Language: English / Hindi, 2005
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaam_Namaste
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