The kind of movies I hate..

I found this review on rediff.com and really liked it. Just wanted to share it with all u ppl ...

Basically the filmmakers have a strategy based on which they promote the film as a 'love legend'. So whether you are ready or not, this spoonful of gooey, old world, sentimental romance will be thrust down your throat like that gluey rice porridge Mommy forced into your salivating mouth as a 7-month-old.Oh, but didn't you somewhat enjoy the taste of it initially?

Ditto with Veer-Zaara. It's not entirely inedible. You got to watch it like any other Yash Chopra film – with your eyes and heart wide open. After all, apart from that stray Vijay and Parampara, the King of romance had never given any reason to complain.Like any other Yash Chopra film, it has oodles of open-air romance, sensual chemistry between the lovers and teary-eyed emotionality.

Like any other Yash Chopra film, it has multiple cameras zooming in and out of mustard and sunflower fields, gushing waterfalls, snow-clad mountains and untimely rains.Like any other Yash Chopra film, it has its hero and heroine running towards each other from opposite directions to give that one passionate embrace.Like any other Yash Chopra film…wait a minute. Am I saying Veer-Zaara is like yet another Yash Chopra film? Guess I am. But then the makers need some strategic difference to project is as a 'love legend'.

Oh yeah, the hero, Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) and the heroine, Zaara Haiyyat Khan (Preity Zinta) belong to different nationalities – India and Pakistan, respectively. You don't need to be too focused to notice just how much stress is given on their names and nationalities. It also stresses on how to improve the social standing of the fairer sex. You soon reach a point of 'okay, okay I get it. Now, can we get on with the movie please?' As Amitabh Bachchan's character (in a guest appearance) casually points out, "Hindustani ho, Pakistani ho ya phir Chini, Japani - ki farak painda hai"?

The story of Veer-Zaara, in a nutshell, revolves around two individuals who fall in love in two days and are forced to spend 22 years apart from each other owing to circumstances. Veer is now in a Pakistani jail serving for no crime or reason. He is a 50-something wobbly old man whose ca(u)se is taken up by a lady lawyer Samiya Siddiqui (Rani Mukherjee). Where is Zaara? What is the original problem? Now now, that would be telling.The funny thing, however, is that it's not that the Indo-Pak factor that really works against Veer and Zaara. The real reason is so ridiculous that at the end of it you feel it's you and not them who have been inflicted with needless tragedy.