As Akshay Kumar, the hero of the film, a few days ago revealed while taking on a TV interview, the recent hit on the golden screen, Namaste London is a real, with a manipulated end, story of his friend hailing from Ludhiana.
The movie, as the Indian audience is taking, is not a comic drama but a bit more. It is a chronic saga of the Indian women who have been suffering from male dominated system not even in India but abroad too since long times. Indian males, under duress from their family cultures or their own egos, marry Indian girls but steer clear from accompanying them while socializing with their outer world especially the foreign people. They feel their brides are not enough good looking and eloquent in communicating in English.So ridiculed by this phobia, heroine Katrina Kaifs mother, although not openly, prepares her England brought-up and bred daughter Katrina against this Achilles' heel so that anyone cannot blemish her daughter of veneers of civilization.
It is story of Punjabi family dwelling in England whose daughter Katrina Kaif leads a western life style full of cocktails and boyfriends totally against her Rip-van-winkle parents wishes. By playing a trick, her father fetches her to India so that he can find a match for her in the hope of changing her western life style into a traditional Indian married way of life. So they come to India and enjoy visiting Indian monuments and country side.
The director fully exploited the talent of Rishi Kapoor and Akshay Kumar by making them speak chaste Punjabi while relishing Punjabi village life style laced with feasts made of clarified ghee and eating Makhan (unmarked butter) directly from the pot of Lassi (butter milk).
A village lad Akshay Kumar, the hero of the film falls in love with Katrina Kaif and dreams of marrying and honeymooning with her. Akshay did full justice to his role. He, although in dreams, enjoys Katrinas august and scented company while making love with her on the narrow lanes of his Punjabi village, bulleting his bike, amidst sugarcane tracts, atop caned trolley-tractors et al.
Suddenly Rishi Kapoor, Katrinas father settles her marriage with Akshay Kumar and threatens her to obey his will. Katrina muzzled and between the devil and deep sea, plays a trick of marrying Akshay and repairs to London without registration of her marriage in the court of law. On reaching England she refuses to accept the pseudo marriage. Broken but composed Akshay Kumar keeps himself low-profile and wins the race slowly and steady without any trick but with a sense of self-sacrificing for his beloved.
All the actors lived their respective roles with flamboyance. Songs and music sails almost smooth. The dialogues and their delivery are simply superb especially by Akshay Kumar and Rishi Kapoor.Katrina Kaif has arrived a long way as an actor. She performed both her roles as a British girl friend and a Punjabi shy girl with equal lan.
The best thing about the foreign marriage system is that any of the both partners can take U-turn even in the nick of the hour. But our Indian system is yoked by the tradition of not breaking the relation once tied.
The film lessons both the parents and children to understand each others feelings and stop slapping their decisions on each other. It is just writing on the wall that we, Indians have to abandon our long-cherished wish to settle abroad at any cost.
Plus Points: Story, Dialogue and its delivery
Minus Points: Music
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Hi,
I just saw the movie today and quite liked it. I remember there was this punjabi couplet that akshay kumar uses while describing a scene of a few years hence when he would return to london and katrina would come to meet him and would say it. And later in teh movie katrina realises what it means and repeats it.
I am on teh lookout of that couplet. And since I read you hail from ludhiana I thought you might be knowing it. Do you?
If you do.. just leave a mesg for me at www.varshita.net or mail me at varshi.mahajan@gmail.com
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