chiragsharma-14930
If you had a chance to go back into the past and 'fix' it, what would you do? Turn joyous cartwheels of course, because hindsight gives us wisdom that we didn't have when we were in the moment. Maths genius Jay Varma (Sidharth Malhotra) has the gift of time travel, that miraculous thing which he can use to make things right between him and lady love Diya Kapoor (Katrina Kaif). What can go wrong with that most intriguing premise, even if we've seen similar stuff in About Time and The Time Traveller's Wife? Quite a lot, actually, as it turns out: Baar Baar Dekho doesn't have anything that can entice us into repeat viewings, let alone a single one, because the execution is flat and banal. The problems are apparent right from the beginning when the characters start taking shape: they remain fuzzy, especially the character whose actions set everything in motion. Sure, a potential groom can start developing cold feet when the rituals of the big fat Punjabi wedding, fronted by a big fat Punjabi papa, threaten to overwhelm. But Jay is such a drip that you are never convinced about anything he does, whether it is a feeble declaration of loveor a stab at teaching moony-eyed female students. The life lessons that Baar Baar Dekho holds out is a) there's more to life than differential equations (we know), b) the past and the future can only be accessed through the present (we know ) and c) that Katrina Kaif may have the most amazingly mobile waist in the universe but her emoting ambitions are strictly futuristic (this we get to know all over again, sigh). I have now started finding better movies through www.flickstree.com. It not only suggests great movies to watch, it also tells where you can watch the movie online.. Highly recommended.
parveenchandra11
BBD has a few basic elements, which are really rather good:1) Basic idea is this: "While waiting for the big moments of happiness in life, we miss out on these small moments of happiness" (From Bawarchi, 1972).2) Time travel/ Groundhog day: Hero goes to sleep and wakes up at consecutively increasingly further out time points in the future (10 days, 2 years, 15/16 years in 2034). At the third one (2034) he realizes he's messed up big, and promises to fix things. Goes to sleep crying, and this time wakes up 10 years before (2023) and manages to make the wrong choices. Next leap takes him 26 years in the future, at the death of his mother. This is the furthest out in time, and he realizes his priorities should be different. Goes to sleep, and wakes up at the only repeat time point (year 2023) - chooses to put his family first, and then comes back to 2016 (the present).The premise was rather good. I liked the elements underlying the story. The execution was... not so great.Some points that stuck out for me:1) The hero is rather taken aback when his girlfriend proposes marriage, and doesn't come back with an enthusiastic enough "yes". It's a scene where we're supposed to empathise with the heroine and pity the hero. He really should've leapt at the chance of marrying KK. why? Everyone has a right to make their own decisions in life, no? If he wants to think about it, let him. 2) All the wedding preparations frustrate the groom (hero) - how selfish and disrespectful of him! (It's rather normal; why paint the poor boy in a bad light because of these small issues!)And what's wrong with wanting to go abroad for job/education? Our movies would have you believe that you shouldn't venture out because our family and friends are here... Well, a lot many people actually do come back. Nothing wrong with seeing the world a little.3) In the year 2023, when KK's character reminds her husband that there's a show in the evening, she says something to the tune of how "will you remember?" and "you're useless". Their two small children are running around! And she's supposed to be a good mother? It's the worst kind of parents that paint their spouse in a bad light in front of the kids.Btw, just fyi, men without full time jobs are 33% more likely to divorce: aka to remain married, the guy needs to be working -- according to a recently published paper (Killewald, ASR 2016); also quoted in TIME magazine (http://time.com/4425061/unemployment-divorce-men-women/)4) Somebody has a vendetta against maths/logic and mathematicians, and doesn't even know what maths is (more on the second half later). The pandit (Rajit Kapur) says logic doesn't explain what's important in life. Which our poor hero doesn't understand because all he understands is maths! Understanding of maths and relationships/values are not mutually exclusive! 5) Classroom scene in one of the time leaps: a student says that you said you have a solution to Fermat's last theorem, how does this affect bla bla bla. Guess what Fermat's last theorem was "proven" 20 years ago, first valid proof presented in 1994 (only about 350 years after the conjecture was stated). A 5 min googling could've take care of this jarring moment.6) The H is supposedly a math genius. And the script writers have no clue what that entails.Being able to find square roots, products of large numbers, is not the same as being able to prove and postulate mathematical theorems and lemmas. Hero is either a student or professor of mathematics, and apparently he's written a paper on Vedic maths. His appointment to Cambridge is based on that. Quick note on VM: it is a collection of tricks to do mental arithmetic, not what maths is really about. Please look up Quora for an involved discussion on the topic. A quote from S.G. Dani (http://www.tifr.res.in/~vahia/dani- vmsm.pdf): "lack of adequate attention to academic pursuits... has unfortunately resulted, on the one hand, in a lack of awareness of our historical role in actual terms and, on the other, an empty sense of pride which is more of an emotional reaction to the colonial domination rather than an intellectual challenge. Together they provide a convenient ground for extremist and misguided elements in society to "reconstruct history" from nonexistent or concocted source material to whip up popular euphoria."And I'm not even a mathematician :|7) My guess is that this was someone's understanding of Good Will Hunting's ending - that he leaves "maths" to be with the girl... Look at the interview scene (with NSA), it doesn't preclude Will Hunting's working on maths, just not with those guys. And yes, we need to have both in our lives - work and relationships. There should be a balance between the two. 8) One more teensy weensy thing... the futuristic technology... uh... there are driver less, self-driving cars already around on roads (Uber has launched driverless cars in Pittsburg, PA, USA). Various corporations have been testing those for quite some time. It would've been fantastic if could've incorporated that in their futuristic settings. But maybe that really is too much to expect...Final verdict: Well, this is definitely a movie you can see with your family or friends without blushing! If you're at the mall, and need to go watch something, this ain't a bad choice. Or, skip the movie tickets, go eat out :)
Anukool
WoW! This is it! A fresh Love Story flavored with other genres to give a new blended flick. A thumbs up to Dharma Productions for bringing something different from the leek. So starting with the review about Movie : Baar Baar Dekho is a Rom-com with sci-fi and time travel as the toppings over it. Simple love story between Katrina and Siddharth, which have different expectations from their life and how they compromise. Coming to acting : Sid did a great job by portraying different parts of himself. His performance was indeed appealing. Katrina also acted well, but her size zero was not at all delight to eyes. her flaunting of abs was a disgust. Coming to songs : This movie has got all the catchy and beautiful songs. Shot at the exotic locations. Kala Chashma was the USP of the movie, along with Sau Aasman, Nach dene Saare, Kho Gaye Hum Kaha and Khair Mangdi. Each and every song was perfectly shot and well synchronized. Beautiful playback voices with great lyrics made all this possible. Songs wont go out of your mind for few days. Coming to Direction : KJo's prod house made very well efforts to give you the glimpse of the future in present. The technology presented in the movie,take us to the upcoming time and make us think that this is going to come in near 20 years and how we will deal with it. All our life will turn up to materialistic is the bitter truth presented.Movie gives you 3 takeaways- 1. Live every second of your life now, and right now, nobody know about future. 2. Life always gives you a second chance, utilize it well if unable to do in 1st. 3.Give priority to your family before job, job will end at age of 60, but family won't!So this was it, you will feel the same too after watching the movie which gives this teaching in a entertaining way! Happy watching!
