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Run, don't walk to see this movie.
It's a flawed movie, of course, but it's beautiful and emotional and in many ways startlingly grown-up and has angst and melodrama and by the end I was very overcome but it was perfect. And the script had these little conversations, characters teasing or fighting or repressing that had a huge emotional truth under the veneer of the more usual Bolly melodrama full of oversized moments (though there was plent of those as well). It gave me that indescribable feeling that the very good Bollywood movies do: it emotionally grabbed me and pulled me into a super-saturated, hyper-real world of its own. I am so jazzed up from it I cannot sleep even though I have to be up in three hours.
First, the most important thing. Aamir and Kajol. This is the first time I've seen Kajol on the big screen and she is luminous. She is gorgeous and heart-breaking and vivid and everything. She really is my favorite Bollywood actress for a reason. And Aamir? Once upon a time I used to think he was OK but overrated. But with every movie I see of him I fall for him more and more. Rehan is nothing like either Mangal Pandey or DJ from "Rang De Basanti" but he feels like such a real human being. It's the little gestures he makes, it's the look in his eyes (even when the rational part of my brain wanted to hate his character, I couldn't, not when he'd look at Kajol the way he did). And why did I never realize before just how sexy his voice is? (Oh, and don't worry, the horrible long hair is gone by intermission and post-intermission he looks 10 years younger and 20 times hotter). And the chemistry? Out of this world. I was so right to want to see the two of them together since "Ishq" because the chemistry was so intense sometimes I wanted to look away. It's a very different chemistry than the one Kajol has with SRK. It's more grown-up, darker, not as swoonily romantic. I hope hope hope this movie does really well and maybe they will make another one together.
I actually found the ending, while devastating on one level, kind on another. True, Rehan has died, and Zooni is the one who had to kill him (though I think it's because she wasn't thinking clearly at that point: just shoot him in both legs or don't shoot at all, as the bad guys are about to get here and he can protect you), but she can live on with their son, and she has found him again, and she found that despite his other lies he truly madly loved her.
And I continue to be fascinated with Bollywood's approach to terrorist portrayal. I cannot imagine a HW movie make a terrorist a lead with whom you sympathize. Rehan is clearly a horrifically damaged human being (but then, honestly, he clearly was brought up by his psycho grandfather since he was three) who has done some horrible stuff in his life, but you see glimpses of another person, a fun person, a caring person. You see him truly love his family, you see his longing and his despair. But this movie does something better than do such movies as "Dil Se" (even though DS is a better movie) or "Mission Kashmir:" it does not glaze over Rehan's actions. Neither Manisha nor Hrithik really killed anyone in thei respective movies. But Rehan is not like that: he is shown brutally and efficiently dispatching people and it's not always soldiers in pursuit of him: when he gives his co-soldiers the poisoned drink (and what a parallel with his son later bringing him milk and saying it's 'poison') and watches the people he played with die, or when he kills and closes the eyes of Jolly Lucky with whom he was hanging out before, you can see how irrevocably unsavable he is: he's done too much (and he will look you in the face and stab you, not run away). It's such a telling moment when Kajol confronts him later and yells "you killed my father" and he replies, wearily "it was an accident" but then se brings up her uncle and he is silent.
But yet, he is savable at the same time. He can feel. I knew Rehan was a terrorist going in, so the look on his face as you saw him visibly falling for Zooni and knowing how useless it was in the first half was a revelation. Or the hunger on his face in the second half: he wants to be human, he wants to have a life not dedicated to the cause, in fact he cannot hold his humanity in any longer, you see his walls battered down by his son, by Zooni, by normalcy. But of course he cannot 'retire,' it's a pipe dream. His grandfather would never let him go and it would be perverse for him to enjoy his family when the bomb would have the potential to destroy so many other families. He wants out, but he still believes in the cause, as well (and I loved that he didn't change his mind at the end). I think, just like Manisha in Dil Se, he is so irrevocably damaged that the most he can give as proof of love is his death. When he throws away his gun, he knows Zooni would shoot him (and I love how it goes against all his instincts to do so), and he does so. And she shoots him, and it's not just to save the country or what not: it's to give him peace, peace he can never have. After these events they could never be happy together, he could never escape the military, the terrorists would never let him go. This is, in a way, the only way he can be free. He really did become 'destroyed in love.' But he also rediscovered his soul.
And connected to that, I loved an adult complexity in the Zooni-Rehan relationship. In some ways, this movie begs to be ficced. She falls in love with him in utter purity but it's also because she's never been wooed before that she is so desperate. I love her wanting to spend the night with him, no strings no attachments: after all, she knows she will never have anything else from anyone else, not with her being blind. And I love that he is overwhelmed by the magnitude of her gift, of her love, that it freaks him out as he sees his practiced wooing turn into something else, that he tries to run away from it, never to show up. He belives in his cause but I think he knows he is a damned soul and the fact that someone like Zooni can love him, really love him, not just find him hot or fun, turns his world topsy turvy for a bit. The serious, devastated look on his face when he looks at her after she tells him she likes him and holds him speaks volumes. Or that utterly open and vulnerable look after their lovemaking as he just watches her sleep. And of course, he sees her off on the train but he cannot let her go and so he gets off on the train and stops it and takes her back to Delhi even though he knows it's futile, that their time has almost run out (and the shot of him carrying her down the tracks? Adorable). Just as the hugs he gives her when she is about to have her eye surgery and he is about to leave her forever. He keeps holding on to her, he gives her his amulet, because in a way she is he only personal life, only personal emotion he's ever been allowed to feel.
The fact that he stops the train is really symptomatic of the fact that fight as he may, he will always pick her over everything. It starts out small: he shows up to 'date' her even though he said he wouldn't. He interrupts his plans to save her from a car. He changes his mind and spends those twelve hours with her. He gets her off the train. He lies to his grandfather that the woman is dead so she will be left alone. And much much later, when recuperating in her house, he sheds his reserve layer by layer and finally just tells her who he is and begs her to take him back. And of course, in the end he dies for her. I don't think heis lying when he indicates near the end that what drives him is protecting her and their son. His comment about what would happen to them if he doesn't give grandpa the part he took is chilling: "First they ill kill our son in front of us, then they will kill you in frony of me, and then if they have any mercy, they will kill me." In a way, he is always emotionally honest with Zooni. When she asks him to give her one good reason why she should take him back, hunger in his eyes or not, he tells her all his reasons are bad ones.
The pity of this whole situation is that there is a potentially wonderful person under there, that could have existed under other circumstances: just watch him gently wash his son's hair (the child actor is adorable and funny and manipulative the way real children are. He will also need years of therapy). And of course he is utterly vulnerable to Zooni: she and only she can make him cry (btw, love the way Aamir cries. Looks so natural). The scene where he knocks on her door, all wounded and half-delirious and sees her open the door? I would buy the DVD solely for the look on his face. And he tells her that he thought he would die in her house to atone for his sins but now he wants to live. And of course his greatest nightmare is killing Zooni and his child: he dreams of it and wakes up sobbing. And I love how he gradually gets acclimatized to humanity again: the way he watches the normalcy which I don't think he ever had, the way he tries to stay away from his son, even though he so clearly wants him: his feelings make him lose control and he snaps at the kid and Kajol and it's brilliant and so full of layers and pain. And how he cannot hellp but follow her with his eyes (and I love that she doesn't recognize him right away. It's realistic, that after 7 years it would take more than a few words said by him). And how there is all this sexy tension between them, as in when she bandages his arm and he half flinches half leans into her touch and she is so bewildered by her body's response to him. Or when he tries to form an apology and ends up hammering nails instead.
And of course the brilliant scene where he finally discloses he is Rehan to her. I love Kajol's character. She's shown a maturity and acceptance throughout, and she is a strong woman (so are the other women in the movie, yay!) I love that she doesn't fall on his neck, but she is devastated and she tells him about how she tried to compile his face. And he leaves in the morning after their emotional conversation the night before (I love it when he begs her to take him back) and she abandons her stand and runs, runs, runs after him and then slaps him HARD and hits him and she is sobbing and his arms go around her and he is half-unbelieving and I wanted to cry. (And then we get that wonderful picturization and boy do they look hot) and he ends up with his head in her lap, such a parallel to how he dies later.
And of course, there is the adult fact that they clearly have extramarital sex in Delhi and that is such a gorgeous, sexy scene and he kisses her foot (!!!!) and then they are in bed together and I want to rewatch this movie right now!
I have so many more thoughts about this movie, but for now I'll just close with another favorite scene, one I haven't mentioned up above, because it didn't fit into the write-up but which was too good not to list:
The way he shows her around Delhi and she feels his face and tells him what he feels like and what his voice sounds like and they tease and laugh later and he holds her and she is all shy.
Oh, and the scene where he watches her perform and you see he's fallen so in love.
It's a flawed movie, sure. Some bits are not too realistic and a very few a bit too melodramatic (but hey, it's a melodrama, so what else can you expect). But it's a wonderful wonderful film I want to watch again and again and again. So thank you, Kunal Kohli. And Aamir. And Kajol. And Yash Raj.
Run, don't walk to see this movie.
It's a flawed movie, of course, but it's beautiful and emotional and in many ways startlingly grown-up and has angst and melodrama and by the end I was very overcome but it was perfect. And the script had these little conversations, characters teasing or fighting or repressing that had a huge emotional truth under the veneer of the more usual Bolly melodrama full of oversized moments (though there was plent of those as well). It gave me that indescribable feeling that the very good Bollywood movies do: it emotionally grabbed me and pulled me into a super-saturated, hyper-real world of its own. I am so jazzed up from it I cannot sleep even though I have to be up in three hours.
First, the most important thing. Aamir and Kajol. This is the first time I've seen Kajol on the big screen and she is luminous. She is gorgeous and heart-breaking and vivid and everything. She really is my favorite Bollywood actress for a reason. And Aamir? Once upon a time I used to think he was OK but overrated. But with every movie I see of him I fall for him more and more. Rehan is nothing like either Mangal Pandey or DJ from "Rang De Basanti" but he feels like such a real human being. It's the little gestures he makes, it's the look in his eyes (even when the rational part of my brain wanted to hate his character, I couldn't, not when he'd look at Kajol the way he did). And why did I never realize before just how sexy his voice is? (Oh, and don't worry, the horrible long hair is gone by intermission and post-intermission he looks 10 years younger and 20 times hotter). And the chemistry? Out of this world. I was so right to want to see the two of them together since "Ishq" because the chemistry was so intense sometimes I wanted to look away. It's a very different chemistry than the one Kajol has with SRK. It's more grown-up, darker, not as swoonily romantic. I hope hope hope this movie does really well and maybe they will make another one together.
I actually found the ending, while devastating on one level, kind on another. True, Rehan has died, and Zooni is the one who had to kill him (though I think it's because she wasn't thinking clearly at that point: just shoot him in both legs or don't shoot at all, as the bad guys are about to get here and he can protect you), but she can live on with their son, and she has found him again, and she found that despite his other lies he truly madly loved her.
And I continue to be fascinated with Bollywood's approach to terrorist portrayal. I cannot imagine a HW movie make a terrorist a lead with whom you sympathize. Rehan is clearly a horrifically damaged human being (but then, honestly, he clearly was brought up by his psycho grandfather since he was three) who has done some horrible stuff in his life, but you see glimpses of another person, a fun person, a caring person. You see him truly love his family, you see his longing and his despair. But this movie does something better than do such movies as "Dil Se" (even though DS is a better movie) or "Mission Kashmir:" it does not glaze over Rehan's actions. Neither Manisha nor Hrithik really killed anyone in thei respective movies. But Rehan is not like that: he is shown brutally and efficiently dispatching people and it's not always soldiers in pursuit of him: when he gives his co-soldiers the poisoned drink (and what a parallel with his son later bringing him milk and saying it's 'poison') and watches the people he played with die, or when he kills and closes the eyes of Jolly Lucky with whom he was hanging out before, you can see how irrevocably unsavable he is: he's done too much (and he will look you in the face and stab you, not run away). It's such a telling moment when Kajol confronts him later and yells "you killed my father" and he replies, wearily "it was an accident" but then se brings up her uncle and he is silent.
But yet, he is savable at the same time. He can feel. I knew Rehan was a terrorist going in, so the look on his face as you saw him visibly falling for Zooni and knowing how useless it was in the first half was a revelation. Or the hunger on his face in the second half: he wants to be human, he wants to have a life not dedicated to the cause, in fact he cannot hold his humanity in any longer, you see his walls battered down by his son, by Zooni, by normalcy. But of course he cannot 'retire,' it's a pipe dream. His grandfather would never let him go and it would be perverse for him to enjoy his family when the bomb would have the potential to destroy so many other families. He wants out, but he still believes in the cause, as well (and I loved that he didn't change his mind at the end). I think, just like Manisha in Dil Se, he is so irrevocably damaged that the most he can give as proof of love is his death. When he throws away his gun, he knows Zooni would shoot him (and I love how it goes against all his instincts to do so), and he does so. And she shoots him, and it's not just to save the country or what not: it's to give him peace, peace he can never have. After these events they could never be happy together, he could never escape the military, the terrorists would never let him go. This is, in a way, the only way he can be free. He really did become 'destroyed in love.' But he also rediscovered his soul.
And connected to that, I loved an adult complexity in the Zooni-Rehan relationship. In some ways, this movie begs to be ficced. She falls in love with him in utter purity but it's also because she's never been wooed before that she is so desperate. I love her wanting to spend the night with him, no strings no attachments: after all, she knows she will never have anything else from anyone else, not with her being blind. And I love that he is overwhelmed by the magnitude of her gift, of her love, that it freaks him out as he sees his practiced wooing turn into something else, that he tries to run away from it, never to show up. He belives in his cause but I think he knows he is a damned soul and the fact that someone like Zooni can love him, really love him, not just find him hot or fun, turns his world topsy turvy for a bit. The serious, devastated look on his face when he looks at her after she tells him she likes him and holds him speaks volumes. Or that utterly open and vulnerable look after their lovemaking as he just watches her sleep. And of course, he sees her off on the train but he cannot let her go and so he gets off on the train and stops it and takes her back to Delhi even though he knows it's futile, that their time has almost run out (and the shot of him carrying her down the tracks? Adorable). Just as the hugs he gives her when she is about to have her eye surgery and he is about to leave her forever. He keeps holding on to her, he gives her his amulet, because in a way she is he only personal life, only personal emotion he's ever been allowed to feel.
The fact that he stops the train is really symptomatic of the fact that fight as he may, he will always pick her over everything. It starts out small: he shows up to 'date' her even though he said he wouldn't. He interrupts his plans to save her from a car. He changes his mind and spends those twelve hours with her. He gets her off the train. He lies to his grandfather that the woman is dead so she will be left alone. And much much later, when recuperating in her house, he sheds his reserve layer by layer and finally just tells her who he is and begs her to take him back. And of course, in the end he dies for her. I don't think heis lying when he indicates near the end that what drives him is protecting her and their son. His comment about what would happen to them if he doesn't give grandpa the part he took is chilling: "First they ill kill our son in front of us, then they will kill you in frony of me, and then if they have any mercy, they will kill me." In a way, he is always emotionally honest with Zooni. When she asks him to give her one good reason why she should take him back, hunger in his eyes or not, he tells her all his reasons are bad ones.
The pity of this whole situation is that there is a potentially wonderful person under there, that could have existed under other circumstances: just watch him gently wash his son's hair (the child actor is adorable and funny and manipulative the way real children are. He will also need years of therapy). And of course he is utterly vulnerable to Zooni: she and only she can make him cry (btw, love the way Aamir cries. Looks so natural). The scene where he knocks on her door, all wounded and half-delirious and sees her open the door? I would buy the DVD solely for the look on his face. And he tells her that he thought he would die in her house to atone for his sins but now he wants to live. And of course his greatest nightmare is killing Zooni and his child: he dreams of it and wakes up sobbing. And I love how he gradually gets acclimatized to humanity again: the way he watches the normalcy which I don't think he ever had, the way he tries to stay away from his son, even though he so clearly wants him: his feelings make him lose control and he snaps at the kid and Kajol and it's brilliant and so full of layers and pain. And how he cannot hellp but follow her with his eyes (and I love that she doesn't recognize him right away. It's realistic, that after 7 years it would take more than a few words said by him). And how there is all this sexy tension between them, as in when she bandages his arm and he half flinches half leans into her touch and she is so bewildered by her body's response to him. Or when he tries to form an apology and ends up hammering nails instead.
And of course the brilliant scene where he finally discloses he is Rehan to her. I love Kajol's character. She's shown a maturity and acceptance throughout, and she is a strong woman (so are the other women in the movie, yay!) I love that she doesn't fall on his neck, but she is devastated and she tells him about how she tried to compile his face. And he leaves in the morning after their emotional conversation the night before (I love it when he begs her to take him back) and she abandons her stand and runs, runs, runs after him and then slaps him HARD and hits him and she is sobbing and his arms go around her and he is half-unbelieving and I wanted to cry. (And then we get that wonderful picturization and boy do they look hot) and he ends up with his head in her lap, such a parallel to how he dies later.
And of course, there is the adult fact that they clearly have extramarital sex in Delhi and that is such a gorgeous, sexy scene and he kisses her foot (!!!!) and then they are in bed together and I want to rewatch this movie right now!
I have so many more thoughts about this movie, but for now I'll just close with another favorite scene, one I haven't mentioned up above, because it didn't fit into the write-up but which was too good not to list:
The way he shows her around Delhi and she feels his face and tells him what he feels like and what his voice sounds like and they tease and laugh later and he holds her and she is all shy.
Oh, and the scene where he watches her perform and you see he's fallen so in love.
It's a flawed movie, sure. Some bits are not too realistic and a very few a bit too melodramatic (but hey, it's a melodrama, so what else can you expect). But it's a wonderful wonderful film I want to watch again and again and again. So thank you, Kunal Kohli. And Aamir. And Kajol. And Yash Raj.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:25 am (UTC)I am looking forward to seeing this, but I think I'll miss it playing locally and have to wait until the DVD. Sadness, indeed.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:29 am (UTC)I don't think I've ever seen a Bollywood scene that got me as much as his crying into his gf's lap in RDB, after their demonstration got dispersed.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 06:36 am (UTC)And that scene in RDB is just killer. As is the one where the gf is listening to him over the radio as he's inside the building at the end and it's the end of it all and she doesn't even get to say goodbye.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:38 am (UTC)And that scene in RDB is just killer.
Glad it's not just me. It is so understated that it feels more painful for that. And I love the easy implied intimacy of it.
It's funny, Aamir is not the most good-looking guy out there. But just like SRK he has this intense charisma to burn.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 06:47 am (UTC)I have nothing much to comment on except omg want to see it. Also, I'm so glad it wasn't just me going crazy looking forward to just *any* mediocre Bolly-film but that this one definitely seems to be a good one and even better - a great film.
And yeah, every time I listen to Mere Haath Mein I almost can't listen to the Aamir-monologue bits because not only does his voice sound suuuuperdramatic but also rather hot.
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Date: 2006-05-27 06:53 am (UTC)I love the intercut with his joking and her devastated face, her falling apart.
I know and I kept hoping that somehow she would get in there, but she was stuck on the outside knowing how it would all turn out.
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Date: 2006-05-27 07:02 am (UTC)Exactly. And it's part despair on his part and the fact that he is just an average guy with a normal life before this, but now it's all out of control and he feels so powerless and so full of grief, but t's also part the fact that he is so comfortabl with her, that he loves her, and if you cannot admit weakness in front of the person you love, then you are incapable of admitting weakness at all. And he is just so gone and his control is lost and she is comforting him and my heart just breaks.
I know and I kept hoping that somehow she would get in there, but she was stuck on the outside knowing how it would all turn out.
I wasn't very interested in RDB before it opened (yeah, insane) so I went in unspoiled and I was utterly shocked when the police started killing them. And I kept hoping for him to survive, for all of them to survive actually and then...
I do love how unBollywoodish their deaths were. Somehow the impact hit me all the more because of the fact that no, Aamir didn't get to see her before he died. He didn't even know she was listening. Horrible. And in a way, I think she got a demonstration why most people stay away from ideals and causes. It was so romantic and remote and noble for her when she read about Bhagat Singh and co in her grandfather's journals but in the end she faced what it was like to have to live with something like that.
That movie just devastates me and yet it's so full of joy.
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Date: 2006-05-27 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 07:18 am (UTC)I want to believe he did know and that's why he talked about wanting to marry her, because he wanted her to know.
And I don't know how any of the women in that film went on from that. I like to think they came together and found comfort in that.
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Date: 2006-05-27 07:24 am (UTC)And I don't know how any of the women in that film went on from that. I like to think they came together and found comfort in that.
They do show Soha and Alice being together at the end, don't they? Or am I confabulating it with something else? But yes, Madhavan's mother, Soha, Alice, Kirron Kher...all those women with all that grief. It's horrible. Though however heart-breaking, I really loved that they didn't go for the cliche of giving Alice a child by Aamir to 'remember him by.'
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Date: 2006-05-27 07:38 am (UTC)*holds hand over spoilers*
[[commences to dance around the room]]
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Date: 2006-05-27 08:41 am (UTC)Fanaa blogroll
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Date: 2006-05-27 05:24 pm (UTC)I'm practically ignorant about Bollywood movies since I got into them becauseof Aamir Khan, so knowing there this movie is out and what is about and his performance and all... I really want to see it!!
However, the bad thing is that I'll have to wait for the dvd. We don't get Bollywood movies showing in theatres :(
I've managed to watch a mini trailer and there is a scene in the rain or with water (so cute!!!) and both look great together!!
Seriously, thank you for this post!!! ;)
Now I need to make Aamir icons!
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Date: 2006-05-27 08:12 pm (UTC)Re: Fanaa blogroll
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Date: 2006-05-30 04:08 pm (UTC)Btw, where did you get the icon? I am dying for an icon from that poster...
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Date: 2006-05-30 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-30 04:11 pm (UTC)Ooooh, and do make icons! I have a sudden urge to have some Aamir icons!
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Date: 2006-05-30 04:11 pm (UTC)And the KANK trailer was great. The audience actually burst out into a lot of noise when SRK came on screen (good on them!).
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-02 05:39 pm (UTC)Anyway, what I meant to say was, I recognized everything you talked about in this post. And understood your reactions because they resembled mine in many ways. This film tore me apart emotionally. And I loved it.
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Date: 2006-06-02 06:29 pm (UTC)That movie made me want to cry at the same time I realized the inevitability of it all and how it couldn't end any other way. And I think Kunal Kohli just went on a list of my favorite directors (and one who makes different movies) and certainly screen-writers, because I love the little real moments in his movies, both physical and dialogue.
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Date: 2006-06-02 07:04 pm (UTC)I think it was Aamir's character who killed me the most. Like you said, definitely two sides to him, one ruthless and messed up person beyond saving and inside a man who's still got hope. It kills me because at some point I kind of realized there was no happy end to be had, because the negative side would never just magically disappear so he could lead a happy family life. But the positive side is always there, as well, which is why he drops the gun.
And the fact you can see a strange sort of relief on his face when she shoots him.
I may be slightly in love with Aamir Khan right now. But yeah, not that Kajol wasn't 100% suberb and amazing in this film, too - both of their roles were so meaty and amazing, I can see why they both wanted to do this film.
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Date: 2006-06-02 07:14 pm (UTC)Yes, I felt such a sense of pity for Aamir's character, and yet there were moments where I was appalled by him and revolted by him. He is just such a mess. And of course, he does mention that he was brought by his grandfather (the crazy terrorist leader guy) from the time he was three, so really, he never had much of a chance, did he? Quite a difference from Zooni and her loving and normal family.
And it's his hope that actually kills me the most, because he could never really be let go. Even though he genuinely wants to retire, even if the government never found him out, can you imagine the terrorist group leader going 'OK, fine, live in peace with your wife and son.' He would have just killed them as obstacles. There was no way out for him, even before Rishi accidentally went over the cliff, or Zooni shot him. And I think Zooni knew that, which is why she was able to do what she did.
And the fact you can see a strange sort of relief on his face when she shoots him.
Yes. And his telling her their son's catchphrase 'Rehan loves you more than you love Rehan' and then telling her he is not afraid any more. Waaaaaah!
I am definitely in love with Aamir right now, and with Kajol. They were both amazing and the roles were so complex and they really were co-leads in every sense of the term and whoa...
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Date: 2006-06-02 07:38 pm (UTC)Hey, I'm rewatching the last 30 mins and when Aamir shows up at the Colonel's place and Kajol asks about her father's death and Colonel's death and then they talk in the kitchen and he says something about his lie ("Mera -- jhooth") and then something about loving - how does that line go?
And can you remember what else he tells her in that scene before he takes the remote control thingy?
God, I just rewatched the end and needed to get a few tissues from the kitchen. Wah. Beautiful.
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Date: 2006-06-02 07:59 pm (UTC)And she tells him he's lied to her and he tells her that his feelings weren't a lie, or something to that effect.
And he tells her that he will just give the trigger to terrorists and then he'd be out and she says how can all those people be killed for them to be happy and he says that no one will be killed, bomb will just be used as a threat. And some talk about family and he tells her that he is trying to protect the family because if he doesn't give them the trigger, they will kill their son in front of them, and then her in front of him, and then, if they have any mercy left, they will kill him.
Yeah, the ending is amazing.
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Date: 2006-07-10 04:07 am (UTC)I hope Kajol and Aamir work together again.