Farhan Akhtar came up with Don last year and will soon to be launched as an actor. Anyways this writeup is not about Farhan Akhtar, it is about his first movie, 'Dil Chahta Hai', his best yet, according to me.
The movie came and hit the bull's eye, the young urban audience. The movie's numbers were hummed even in South Bombay's crowd. Not an easy task for a Hindi movie. The movie had the perfect milieu, a perfect cast, very stylish, young with a typical laidback, dont-give-a-damn attitude, the right kind of humour and the right story.
According to many it was like watching 'Friends' in three hours. But not to me. Yes, given all the above things, it might sound so. But it was also Indianised or rather Bombayised, not Mumbaised mind you, and melted down at the right temperature.
It had a classy humour that you get just if you have it. Like the one where Saif's Sameer Mulchandani says to Sonali Kulkarni, while showing a pic with his friends, 'Haan ya to ye dosti hain ya phir photo 3D hain!' Also liked the line "Waise bhi perfection ko improve karna mushkil hain!" Cool.
And what the heck! The movie also had its silent cinematic moments. So unusual for Hindi cinema. When Sid and Akash have a row and Sid slaps Akash, Akash goes home still in a shocked-brooding state of mind, we see him glued to a chair thinking, hurt. He gets up only to shut off the alarm. Fantastic! the passage of time, the night. He's up all night thinking about the episode, that's how much Sid means to him. And like a good movie the drama ends without taking it to a further melodramatic moments. It remains with you but in a subtle way.
The film was also right for me on a personal level. The movie came when I was in SY. And it instantly put me in a 'Carpe Diem' like state about my friends and my career. I knew things were soon going to change. The lines 'Kabhi ye socha hain, har saal main ek baar aana to dur, dus saal mein ek baar bhi yaha ana mushkil hoga' resonated so well. There couldn't be a better timing.
I have enjoyed my college life to the hilt. Done all the good-crazy stuff, meaning cutting classes, laughing crazy, chasing goodlooking seniors, made great friends, and not meaning drugs and other stupid-crazy stuff.
I have hardly [hard-ly meaning none] watched any mainstream Hindi movie after DCH except Jhankaar Beats.
P.S. For Farhan; I was hoping Farhan, having the right combination of being Javed Akhtar's son and also having the exposure to World cinema would give us more such surprises. But so far none have matched DCH. He is doing different kind of movie but the result looks like a typical bollywood fare.
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