Copy - Paste With a Punch : The Telegraph
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
, Posted by D i p at Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Poran Jai Joliya Re :-
Starring : Dev, Subhashree, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Aritra Dutta Bhowmick .
The plot : No novelty there. PJJR is a scene-by-scene copy of Katrina Kaif-Akshay Kumar’s Namastey London. But with a few innovations thrown in, it has a Tolly feel right through. Subhashree’s Anamika, aka Ana, who has grown up in scenic Malaysia, returns to desher bari as her dad wants her to settle down with a “sidhe-sadha Bharatiya chhele”. That’s when girl meets boy (Dev’s Raju) and boy falls in love. But Ana, who has a Brit boyfriend to boast of back home, plots to get rid of her suitor (who comes all the way with her to bilet) on the advice of big bro Sid (!). That’s Tota for you. But after a few peppy tracks and some dhishum-dhishum, girl sees true love in the dreamy eyes of Indian boy.
The showstealers : Dev and Subhashree. And in that order. Dev, who is only getting better with each movie, does a great job of a desi dude falling head over heels for a hot chick. His fun scenes are really funny, his sad scenes make you sad, and his moves and shakes make the crowd at Indira cinema go berserk. Though the film belongs to Subhashree — she’s the pivot in the plot — her Ana is OTT and her voice too shrill for comfort. But she does manage to sizzle in all the frames, be it in a sari or sexy hot pants.
The rest : As Ana’s dandy elder brother with a firang babe for a girlfriend, Tota looks cool. He shakes a leg at discs and sips wine at plush clubs, all very convincingly. You wish his character had been little more than just a sketch. Laboni and Biswajit make two cute hapless parents (of Subhashree), a role reprisal from Challenge. Little Aritra does, well, what he is best at — delivering corny one-liners punctuated with his paka acts. Sample this: ‘Arre chhele meyera prothome fighting, tarpor tader mone Chandannagarer lighting. Ekei bole prem!’
The soundtrack : Jeet Gannguly’s music is foot-tapping. Mon jaane, sung by Shaan, and the title track by Jeet himself stay with you for quite some time after leaving the hall.
The backstage boys : Cinematographer Harish Joshi makes Malaysia look like the hottest thing to put on your travel map (and you wonder what made director Ravi Kinnagi pass it off as London). Rabiranjan Moitra’s editing is crisp and tight, but choreographer Madhav Kishan makes little use of Dev’s dancing feet.
News From : The Telegraph (28.07.09)
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Starring : Dev, Subhashree, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Aritra Dutta Bhowmick .
The plot : No novelty there. PJJR is a scene-by-scene copy of Katrina Kaif-Akshay Kumar’s Namastey London. But with a few innovations thrown in, it has a Tolly feel right through. Subhashree’s Anamika, aka Ana, who has grown up in scenic Malaysia, returns to desher bari as her dad wants her to settle down with a “sidhe-sadha Bharatiya chhele”. That’s when girl meets boy (Dev’s Raju) and boy falls in love. But Ana, who has a Brit boyfriend to boast of back home, plots to get rid of her suitor (who comes all the way with her to bilet) on the advice of big bro Sid (!). That’s Tota for you. But after a few peppy tracks and some dhishum-dhishum, girl sees true love in the dreamy eyes of Indian boy.
The showstealers : Dev and Subhashree. And in that order. Dev, who is only getting better with each movie, does a great job of a desi dude falling head over heels for a hot chick. His fun scenes are really funny, his sad scenes make you sad, and his moves and shakes make the crowd at Indira cinema go berserk. Though the film belongs to Subhashree — she’s the pivot in the plot — her Ana is OTT and her voice too shrill for comfort. But she does manage to sizzle in all the frames, be it in a sari or sexy hot pants.
The rest : As Ana’s dandy elder brother with a firang babe for a girlfriend, Tota looks cool. He shakes a leg at discs and sips wine at plush clubs, all very convincingly. You wish his character had been little more than just a sketch. Laboni and Biswajit make two cute hapless parents (of Subhashree), a role reprisal from Challenge. Little Aritra does, well, what he is best at — delivering corny one-liners punctuated with his paka acts. Sample this: ‘Arre chhele meyera prothome fighting, tarpor tader mone Chandannagarer lighting. Ekei bole prem!’
The soundtrack : Jeet Gannguly’s music is foot-tapping. Mon jaane, sung by Shaan, and the title track by Jeet himself stay with you for quite some time after leaving the hall.
The backstage boys : Cinematographer Harish Joshi makes Malaysia look like the hottest thing to put on your travel map (and you wonder what made director Ravi Kinnagi pass it off as London). Rabiranjan Moitra’s editing is crisp and tight, but choreographer Madhav Kishan makes little use of Dev’s dancing feet.
News From : The Telegraph (28.07.09)
Dev Fans Club © - #1 Dev Site Around The Web . Dev Rocks ....
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