The Weekend – Main Hoon Na , Yuva !

Last weekend was a very relaxing one. We caught up on some interesting movies, Main Hoon Na and Yuva.

Sorry about the pun on the title of the post Just couldn’t help it. It’s an old habit that gets more and more difficult to kick )

Let’s start with Main Hoon Na. It’s to the Manmohan Desai school of film-making that Farah Khan pays her heartfelt tribute ! It’s a total ‘time-pass’ and ‘paisa-vasool’ kind of film. Shah Rukh Khan and Zayed Khan are good. Though Boman Irani seems to be getting trapped in his Munnabhai MBBS image of the Mr. Weatherbee of Mumbai. He’s gotta be careful. In this post I shall confine my comments to Ms. Sushmita Sen ! Sigh ! She’s a dream and is a total take-off on the stereotype of the Yash Chopra heroine ! And she is even called Chandni ! Yes, boy, she does take to the caricature so smoothly that you see a different kind of Sush ! As an aside , even Ekta was a Chemistry teacher before her MBA and her students used to say that she was a duplicate of Sushmita Sen ! That made the movie a little more personal for both of us !

Now coming to Yuva …

This movie is a pretty different movie. (i) It’s based in Calcutta..oops…Kolkata (ii) It’s lead characters are named Lallan, Michael and Arjun (iii) it’s dark and brooding but ends with hope

And if this movie does not define the persona and make Abhishek’s career, I don’t know what will ! It gives him an author-backed role that he’s able to pull off so well that it takes your breath away. Ajay Devgan is the smouldering optimist and delivers a great performance too. Vivek Oberoi in my opinion is the guy who got the raw deal.

The interesting fact is that the three leading ladies choose to make their own future by rejecting and confronting the patriarchial system. Echoes of the 1980s?