When Hamne Dekha “Jab We Met”

October 5, 2008

Jab we met What happens when you see a movie three times every day for 9 months without any break? To begin with, you remember every dialogue, lyrics of all the songs, every set, every sequence, every costume like the back of your hand. There is another extreme possibility which is either you love the movie very much (with a lot of time to sit on your a**) or you hate the sight of even its poster and swear never to see it again during this lifetime. I’ll go with the ‘loving’ part for “Jab We Met” because I must be totally crazy to see it at 10:40 p.m. on a Sunday night on TV too when I just saw it on DVD a few hours earlier over dinner.

We have 2 copies in DVDs of the movie JWM at home. The first one wore out because of playing repeatedly. After all, no DVD is designed to be viewed like a five hundred times or more, right? I’m afraid the second one has also begun to show signs of wear and tear and might need a quick replacement. Navratri shopping can wait, a new copy of JWM takes a higher priority. Just kidding..no more DVDs of JWM.

So, how did this obsession began? It started off as an accident; back in January when LG was going through a very tough fussy-eating phase the only distraction that made him eat was the song “Mauji hi Mauja”. It played on different chanells through the day that he grew fond of the song and gyrated to it while having his food. When the frequency of the number decreased on TV, I got a DVD of the movie for Rs.30 (thank you Moser Baer!). Initially he finished his dinner by the time “Mauja hi Mauja” and “Nagada, Nagada” numbers finished playing. When he grew bored of it, it moved on to the other songs and with time different parts of the movie (minus the swearing or objectionable scenes). Soon we were seeing a good chunk of the movie (about 30 minutes in all) through the day which was the only TV viewing allowed. I know it’s bad parenting..very bad rather. But let’s just forget that for a while and keep in mind kids outgrow nursery rhymes too. Anyways this post is about the movie and not about my parenting ways, remember?

There’s something so refreshing about this movie that I think no review of it so far has done enough justice. The only other movie before this one that I claim to have seen more than once is “Dil Hai Ki Mantha Nahin“. Ironically, both the movies have similar story lines of boy-meets-girl-in-journey, falls in love with a happily-lived-ever-after ending. JWM exudes a positive energy every time you watch it; there’s so much enthusiasm to live life on one’s terms, a feel-good romance and a story freshly dealt like never before in recent times that it puts all the romantic movies to shame. It has raised the bar for Hindi movies with its realistic, no-hype approach that doesn’t go over-the-top in costumes or make-up making you connect with the characters. I remember the dialogue of almost every scene and yet I see it with the same anticipation as a first-time viewer every time I see the movie. This is one movie when you wouldn’t need a DVD remote after playing for there’s no need to skip any section or song. Imtiaz Ali must have done a fabulous job for viewers to consider Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur among their favorite actors especially when the latter was considered more of a female actor than male because of his looks and roles in earlier movies such as Dil Maange More . The chemistry between the lead pair couldn’t have been better and I can’t believe myself to be writing about a movie at this time of the night!

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6 Responses to “When Hamne Dekha “Jab We Met””

Pravin on October 6th, 2008 4:08 pm

I just cant digest that you still buy in to this traditional love story crap from bollywod!!
Lakshmi on October 6th, 2008 5:39 pm

Really, you can’t? Ofcourse, I am into it even after all these years Try it for once..it’s better than the crap you watch at 2 a.m.
Vaz on October 16th, 2008 7:56 am

Me and Bharath(my hubby) are in love with this movie and frm the time it got realeased, we wanted to watch it together and we could manage that only after our wedding on the laptop. It was fun watching it and you wunt believe we started a blog of jab we met ( still under process). Will send in the link sometime.
Huma on January 30th, 2009 11:43 am

lol
this is my 6 year olds fav Hindi film and she watches it at least once a week too. she knows all the dialogs and speaks them quite fluently where as she cannot speak a word of Hindi other then that. if i let her she would love to write a review about it but i think we will leave it for now.
Now its her birthday in March and she wnats the black costume that Karina wore in the very last song Mauja for her birthday Party. trying to find that out now but it looks like a long shot knowing that not many boutiques deliver to UK or make it for kids.
Vinayak on May 14th, 2009 3:36 am

I so loved this article. Actually its quite like my story, at least the feeling is. I watch this time every time it airs on TV, i watch it whenever i feel like watching it, on DVD and i have a large collection of pics of this movie. To add, i have also taken out audio version of my favourite scenes, like the Hotel decent one, the ticketmaster one, Geet abusing Anshuman one, etc.

Also tho many would find the kiss useless in the movie, i found it very nice n important. It was not the usual vulgar kiss that we seen in bollywood, but it was a sweet, innocent kiss, that a true lover does. Also, i think it was the best way to end this movie. Superb climax!

Songs are too good, in fact this was the first movie album that i bought. I listen to it whenever i am on PC but even if m off in a car, i listen to it, as i have my audio cd there. Tum Se Hi for me, is the best song every made, and is a very special song for me. I just LOVE IT!!! Its the only song that i heard over 100 times in a day.

For me, this movie stands out to be the best movie ever made, precisely the best LOVE Story ever made!

The Best Music!

And the best couple to enact it on screen. Shahid-Kareena were simply tooooooooo good in this flick! Imtiaz Ali rocked with his direction and dialogues. I cant choose juz one scene which is my favorite. There are just so many.

Also, this movie airs almost every week on some channel or the other, which just shows how much our audience loves to watch it on TV, as movie is aired so much only when they are having viewers.

Thank U to everyone related to the movie, who made and helped in the making of this movie. I am just so proud of it

LOVE U JAB WE MET
SZA on February 3rd, 2012 10:21 am

Very good article, I have seen it only once, Initially after watching the promos I thought this movie is going to be very bore, but accidentally I watched it on Setmax, due to repeat telecast of several100 times, after watching it I realized JWM is one of the best movies ever made in Bollywood.