4/6/2024 0 Comments Jab tak hai jaan movieMehta’s cinematography-the way he and the director use the locations, London and Ladakh-has the stamp of a seasoned hand. Rahman’s music dilly-dallies along the formulaic and the original there are flashes of genius in the way he uses voice, but overall the music is remarkably ineffective. There is a hole in the basic template, which Chopra made his own in his long career-poetic, rhapsodic music that beautifies his scenes, even his characters. In all his romances, Chopra has translated romance on to the screen lyrically, and there are some of those trademark flourishes in JTHJ-realized in some beautiful scenes. Rahman’s music, Anil Mehta’s cinematography and Hindi cinema’s reigning romantic matinee idol Shah Rukh Khan. The best of talent comes together in Chopra’s swansong. The story of JTHJ, written by Aditya Chopra and Devika Bhagat, isn’t much of a story-just a patchwork of tried-and-tested situations, disclosing any of which will kill your thrill of guessing the next predictable turn of events. For a film spanning 3 hours, these antics, propelled by passionate love, are sore and laughable. The leading lady is a fatalistic believer in religion and self-denial. Unrequited love hopes for consummation in the next birth. Yash Chopra’s Jab Tak Hai Jaan (JTHJ) has archaic ideas about love and existence, mostly concocted in its regressive characters’ heads. Empty, rhetorical conversations with God, in the garb of life-affirming faith.
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