Junooniyat : So Cliché
This week's release Junooniyat, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, is another inclusion in the creepy love stories of Bollywood. The movie focus on a love story between a Captain of the Indian Army, Jahaan (Pulkit Samrat) and an adventurous Punjabi kudi Suhaani Kapoor (Yami Gautam).
Their first meeting happens when the heroine does swimming in a restricted area because its "adventurous" and the hero helps her from getting drowned. No wait, but she doesn't seems to be drowning or in danger when help comes. But why was there a distress call in the first place. No one knows. Anyways the over smart heroine irritates us in the following scene when colonel ask her questions. She is detained in the army camp until investigations about her is complete. Suhaani also wants an apology from the captain for reason I'm still finding. For helping her, maybe? Colonel is so generous that he invites her to the army's official Christmas party. There after a drink of brandy, which according to colonel is not alcohol but a lifestyle, she dances with the hero and falls in love with him. They separate. They meet again, plays holi and again gets seperated. This goes on for some time.
Suhaani's family comes to know about the love and is totally against it just because Jahaan is an army man. Having lost three family members, Suhaani's father doesn't want history to be repeated on his daughter's life. Jahaan was not willing to leave his army for her and thus gets separated again.
The film has some of the worst scenes ever made in the history of Bollywood. There is a scene where Suhaani tries to escape from the train, which goes to her college organised winter camp, with the help of her friends who distracts the teacher by giving Aloo ka paratha. Really? Wasn't there a better option?
There is another scene where Jahaan and other army officers rescue a family from a car drowned in snowfall and the family invites only the captain to the family function. And that too by taking leave. The person turns out to be Suhaani's fiance. (One could easily guess!). And in the following scenes we see the fiance hailing from Canada shares his griefs and doubts only with Jahaan, whom he met two days back rather with a bunch of friends and family members he has.
The story-line is undoubtedly predictable. The chemistry between the leads doesn't help in saving the movie from being a disaster. The music is not up to the mark and is being unnecessarily included every 15 minutes. The camera captures some beautiful views of Kashmir and Punjab. Coming to acting, I feel Pulkit Samrat did a better job than Yami Gautam. Yami Gautam is beautiful as usual but her charachter Suhaani fails to impress us.
Junooniyat is a movie about a boring love story that will never exist in this present world.
My rating is 0.5 out of 5
My rating is 0.5 out of 5
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