My Obsession with Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

It is shameful that in all these years of this blog, I have not written a single post about the love of my life, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Like I was stumped, how could I do this????? I knew this blog lacked something!!

Let us begin from the beginning...!

So it was I guess October 2nd when the poster of the movie released. The girl was mystery, hiding behind this very average looking guy. I wasn't extremely curious back then so I didn't really research on who the girl is. I will tell you something, I grew up with YRF films. I loved the grandness yet the homely connection their movies would have. When someone would say "Yash Chopra movie", you knew it is a quality film. And if it has SRK then yeah, a sure shot winner. Do realize that I am talking in past tense here. :P Well, here is the first poster.

To make things way more special, YRF decided to release the first promo on Shah Rukh's birthdaaaaaay. But no trailer yet, ok?

Most of the things were released on their website which I really liked. And the first song promo was Haule Haule. Shah Rukh and Anushka had some amazing chemistry in that promo. But the story was not apparent from that promo itself. Like doh. I didn't like the song that much but the visuals were really nice. Ten days or so after the promo, they released the trailer of the film.

I loved the trailer. I LOVED IT. The colorful visuals, lots of emotions and background score...all of these were extremely promising. And hello? Shah Rukh Khan. I wasn't the kind to pause every second though or take screenshots. I couldn't say much about Anushka but I loved how there wasn't so much hype over her. Or at least I'd like to believe so. Did I say that I could die for the background music in the trailer? Yes, I died for it actually.

Then more promos started coming out. My personal favorite was the Dance Pe Chance promo because it was so funny and the song was awesome. The stern face of Anushka and the goofiness of Shah Rukh at the end of the promo always brought a smile to my face.

Let's fast forward to December and I get to know that I can't watch the movie on the 12th. :( But Saturday was fine.

It is then when I saw a film which would forever be my favorite. Plenty of films come out every Friday, but only some films leave an impression in your heart. This was the one for me which made the biggest impression.

It was a fun filled ride with only a few characters. That was interesting. Shah Rukh played double roles many times but both Suri and Raj were absolutely poles apart in their presentation of love. That was interesting as well. No one had heard about Anushka til this movie but I felt I knew this Taani ji from a very long time. That was interesting too.

My favorite character from the movie is Raj. I know he's not the most popular character but the reason why I admire him is because he is similar to many loud people in real life. You need to keep in mind that he is Suri himself. And who is Suri? Suri is the quiet and shy person. It takes a great deal of effort psychologically and physically to transform yourself into a flashy person from a person who even takes a bath in his kacha and banyan. Just because you think you have to entertain your wife who has gone through two or three tragedies in a matter of few hours. Love makes you do a lot of things, so Suri did that as well.

One argument people kept making and even make today is that how come Taani never recognized Raj. Taani hardly even looked at Suri to figure the difference. Mustaches do make a whole lot of difference my dear. Taani never thought she would marry Suri, the man who had grown older much before he was supposed to. When you lose people in your life, it takes a while to get out of the trauma and for sometime, you just don't care about anyone.

I never thought though, that I would be defending Taani in this manner but I have learned that recently. Anyway, coming back to the movie, even its music was outstanding. The theme music was fantastic and filled with some sort of passion.

My favorite scene is the pani-puri competition scene. Then the biryani one as well. It was hilarious and Mr. A1 ji had to pay a tummy full of price for being two different men.

I remember how scared I was to see the floating umbrella at the beginning of Phir Milenge. It was scaaaaaary. But I still loved the song because it was a fitting tribute to yesteryear icons.

But you know I loved this movie so much that I had to watch it for a second time in theater. Yes, this was the film which kicked off my habit of watching a movie in theater more than once. And this movie...it gets better with each watch.

Another reason why this film is so close to my heart is because I had randomly entered a contest to win an autographed CD of this movie's music and on a cloudy January 24th of the following year, I got it in mail. It was one of the best surprises ever. You can read more about it here.

Then I can never forget the epic war I had over the DVD. I bought the DVD from a local shop and it was damaged. I tried ever trick on the net to make it work. From bananas to toothpaste, nothing seemed to fix it. So my dad and I went to get it exchanged but the guy refused to do so then my dad and he got into a great heated argument. In the end, the man agreed to give us a new copy although he kept blackmailing us that if his boss found out that he exchanged it, he would lose his job. Pfffffft.

I was really sad that Anushka did not win Best Debut Award because she truly deserved. Asin already had experiences in working in films. But the award people are just ridiculous. Oh and I knew very well that Shah Rukh would never win best actor because he clearly didn't do great in the film.