Jab We Met - Indiatimes Review

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Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tarun Arora, Dara Singh, Pawan Malhotra, Kiran Juneja, Divya Seth.
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Music: Pritam
Rating: ***

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.

Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) is a young industrialist who has a whole lot of personal and professional problems. His mother left his father for another man, his father passed away, the company which his father left behind is in the pits and the last straw comes in the form of his girlfriend getting married to someone else. Completely dejected and not knowing what to do, he enters a train on its way to Delhi. There he comes across Geet (Kareena Kapoor) the most talkative and annoying Punjabi girl he has ever met. Aditya exchanges a few words while Geet exchanges a whole lot of life history including her plans to elope with her boyfriend (Tarun Arora). Clearly, Aditya is not interested in speaking to this blab and when the train stops at a station prior to Geet’s destination, he gets off. Geet thinking that everything not being fine gets off to bring him back into the train. In the process, they both end up missing the train. Now, at Geet’s insistence Aditya has to somehow manage to get her home to Bhatinda. He does so in the next few days but not before Geet completely changes his outlook towards life.

It is the new age director Imtiaz Ali’s direction and writing which is to look out for. After his much appreciated Socha Na Tha , Imtiaz goes bigger and better and the result is nothing but flying colours.

You can draw a few parallels with the Ajay Devgan-Kajol starrer Pyar Toh Hona Hi Tha and the Keanu Reeves-Charlize Theron film Sweet November but only a few.

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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. Though the film could have been a bit shorter or even better scripted towards the end, this film does have a few loose ends. But despite this, the film manages to stand on it own feet.


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.