Ending a long week with an SRK movie is a rare treat. One that when sighted should certainly not be ignored. The icing on the cake is going with a gang full of girls, some of who, like me, cry when the man cries, laugh crazily at the his jokes, and sigh each time he gives those really cute dimpled smiles. Hmmmm 
And so here’s my two cents on the bollywood badshaah’s latest movie. Direction wise, story wise, and really with handling more mature movies, I think that Baby Johar is getting better with each movie. I perhaps differ from 90% the people who watched the movie in claiming that KANK was his best made movie until MNIK. Of course, like any of his other movies there were heavily dramatic scenes in MNIK which made you wish for a fast forward button. But then again how can you watch a bollywood movie without even a dash of cliched dialogues, and a couple of over dramatic scenes?
A successful movie is one which a director paints a picture, displays the protagonists, makes you laugh, makes you cry, but most importantly, ends the movie with a message. A message that keeps the viewers thinking for at least a day after watching the movie. Karan Johar’s point in this movie was simply that ‘the world is made of two kinds of people…the good and the bad.’ Why then do we carry out prejudices with us against people of certain races, color or even places?
In addition, projecting a topic like asperger’s syndrome, which is unew to a lot of the audience, demands a lot of guts. While this gives the director a lot of freedom to do whatever he wants with such a topic, some care must also be taken to ensure that the portrayal of the disorder isn’t overdone. Being familiar with the topic myself, although I claim I am no expert, it is evident to me that the entire team of MNIK did a lot of research prior to beginning the portrayal of the lifestyle and the thinking of Rizvan Khan. Directing a movie which doesn’t have the usual naach gana, romatic scenes, and cliched dialogues that bollywood’s audience is used to is indeed a challenge. And for me this movie was enough proof to show that Karan Johar is a very good movie maker, who gets better with each movie.
The music of the album — amazing voices, brilliant melody, combined with magical lyrics is blended really well in the movie. SEL never cease to amaze me with the magic that they create every time they pair up with KJo. I almost wrote a solo post on my favorite song tere naina, but was at a loss of words each time I initiated a post. All I could manage to do was get lost in thoughts listening to my favorite line ‘ naina sharmaaye jo, yaake bha aaye jo, thamke ruk jaaye dono jaha…’ All the other songs are equally good, but this song is one of its kind. Truly a valentine’s day song, for any lover
And I saved my favorite part of the movie to the last — King Khan! No amount of accolade will be enough for SRK’s brilliant performance in this movie. Athough I am a huge fan, I rarely find his acting to be good. Overacting has dominated most of his career, and I wont deny that. But in this movie, he outdid all of his previous movies. I would go as far as saying that this was one of his best performances in his careers, the others being swades, chak de, kal ho na ho, and KANK (yes! I loved KANK). I did miss seeing those dimpled smiles, long and wide armed post, and romantic dialogues with the most passionate of eyes, which simply makes my heart skip several beats, but he gets to walk away with the award for any success that is credited to this movie. If nothing else, the movie is a must watch for his performance. Screaming and clapping for him in the theatre was certainly worth it
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