Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Akhtar, 2011)

[kaytee]

I liked Luck by Chance and have faith in the Excel Entertainment banner coz so far their track record has been pretty darn good. The poster is pretty shite though, lets hope the trailer is better.

[shariqq]

[shariqq]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/LkpoBIseGAc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/LkpoBIseGAc&rel=1</a>

[kaytee]

This new generation of film making in Bollywood hopefully takes us closer to Hollywood. ZNMD follows the path that DCH took but here the characters are more mature who just need to be shown the correct direction to move forward in life. One needs to get over his father who abandoned him, another needs to standup and say no to a marriage that he is not commited to and lastly one needs to realise that money is not the end all, you need to enjoy today so that one can live through tomorrow.

The story is what makes this film enjoyable, yes the visuals and the setting in Spain is unseen in Bollywood, people are not running around trees anymore but they are driving across a pleasant open desert or mountain range, no songs being lipsynched just being played in the background and that shows maturity on the part of the directors and producers that they are ready to step out of the box and grow. Maybe this is the new age Bollywood.

[ozzylogic]

I absolutely loved DCH, so I might acquire this for the Missus and I soon.

[shariqq]

Will watch it in a day or two...

[shariqq]

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara: a good road-trip movie, good performances by all three leads, and well-written. A very good depiction of our generation's "quarter-life crisis", and a worthy follow up to Dil Chahta Hai. Same vein, but a decade later in the lives of boy-men.

4/5