Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) - Shah Rukh Khan - Anushka Sharma - Bollywood - Indian Cinema - Hindi Film

A romantic comedy! A man attends the wedding of his old teachers daughter's wedding. He takes one look and he's hooked. She's lively, opinionated, marrying a guy of her own choice. Than an unforseen accident kills her fiance, and her father suffers a fatal heart attack. On his death bed he asks his former student to marry his daughter. His daughter grief stricken agrees with her father's request. As she says to her husband she no longer her room in her life for love, as she sees it, she done with love. Should he need love in his life....... He doesn't tell her he's in love, with her, as the timing is not idyllic. She's lost both her fiance and father. When she requests to join a dance contest, he decides to "woo" his own wife. He "mans up" to become a "hero" the kind who always gets the girl! Out goes the demure geek, whose job involves clicking a computer. The slouch body language. Nice guy. But totally forgettable! Sad but true! He attends the dance class dressed as a "hero". No slouching! No mustache! Hair slick! Clothes so tight the jeans dig in both "at the front and back" . Twice you see him pulling at the back, as they obviously pinch! She falls to recognize her own husband! (Totally understandable as I too didn't recognize the lead actor at the very start of the movie! Not to mention he was was so timid, demure, and basically a wall flower.) He seizes the opportunity offered, calls himself Raj, and acts brash, loud and is basically irritating! But unforgettable! He flirts, and is outrageous! The one thing he has going for him, he makes her laugh, and therefore can't be totally ignored! Like he says "he wants to take away her pain". Ouch! Than the husband wakes up to the realization of she falls for Raj, gulp! His best friend says "it's still you"! Yes! But not for her! As she doesn't know! The husband decides to fight a sumo wrestler to impress his wife! She is far from impressed! And tells him so! Why she doesn't recognize him as Raj is the mystery! The husband is not acting his usual self! And yet she seems totally clueless! Why? Not one hint of suspicion! Totally clueless! Not sure this stands her in good stance. Even when they go away to on a trip, and she sees her husband walking towards her, his body language is that of Raj, she fails to notice! Barring her inability to see the obvious the movie is good fun!

This was Anushka Sharma's film debut with Shahrukh Khan. It's a rather silly but endearing storyline. Surinder(SRK) is an ordinary everyday kind of guy who works at a boring desk job at Punjab Power. He meets Taani (Anushka)at his friend's daughter's pre-marriage celebrations and likes her. Later we find that Taani's fiance has been killed in a road accident. Taani's father suffers a heart attack and asks Surinder, on his death bed, to marry Taani. He agrees and she accepts, but makes it clear that the marriage is in name only and that she wants his bedroom all to herself, though she will try to be a dutiful wife in all other respects. After visits to the cinema, Suri discovers Taani's love of 'Song and Dance'and her secret passion to be a dancer. When she has a chance to enter a dance competition Suri agrees to allow her to go. Suri takes advice from a friend, hairdresser Bobby, on improving his image in order to get closer to Taani, who obviously admires the more 'Macho' kind of guy. Thence Suri undergoes a Superman-style transformation into the fun-loving OTT macho 'Raj' who joins Taani's dancing class and 'divinely' gets picked to be her dancing 'Jodi'. Raj's first attempts as the 'Cool Dude' initially puts Taani off, but later she warms to him and eventually falls in love with him. Raj later confesses his love for her, throwing her in to turmoil over her relationship and her marriage. Only divine inspiration can bring us to a satisfactory conclusion. Watch this film if you love romantic comedy. Watch this film if you like 'Tear-jerkers' Watch this film for exceptional acting by both stars. Watch this film if you love Bollywood song and dance. Watch this film because you know you love SHAHRUKH KHAN

Loved it. Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma are great together, enjoyed the music, the storyline. It sounds daft that changing your clothes drastically, combing your hair flat and adding a moustache and glasses means you can’t be recognised by your wife, but in this case it really worked, as Taani barely looked at Suri while she was married to him. I found Bobby funny, those mucho scenes! But he also wasn’t just there for extra laughs, there was a lot more to him. Extra plus points that made me happy were seeing the awesome Preity, Kajol and Rani.

Maybe be because i am an SRK fan, but nevertheless the film for me personally was just great. Its been out that long cannot understand why I never watched it. Its not exactly a new story, but the acting the songs and the story line was lovely enough for me to watch from start to end and buy the blu ray version. Yes it's a love story, maybe a bit silly in some places, but not O.T.T. Its sweet and no sex, violence or depraving acts. It's about being in love with someone, age difference and winning that love, the lengths he goes to.

Once again, Shahrukh Khan plays excellent! This time a double role! His shy "Mister Average" Suri is just too cute!! Newcomer Anushka Sharma plays well also, but I think I prefer to see one of the Industry's known heroines at SRK's side... The storyline is nice also - something very rare regarding the Hindi movies of the last year(s): a beautiful and entertaining love story with good music that makes you hum along (watch out for the Cameos of stunning Kajol, Rani Mukerji and others!). Of course, not comparable to the great Bollywood legends (Devdas, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham...), but still worth watching!

Film piacevole e divertente

Un mariage entre deux amis d'enfance suite à une promesse faite à un père mourant. Lui est un timide maladif amoureux d'elle depuis longtemps; elle l'a toujours vu comme un individu sans intérêt, et les voilà sous le même toit mais pas dans la même chambre... Pour s'évader d'un quotidien monotone elle s'inscrit à des cours de danse. A l'instar des comédiens souvent timides qui se révèlent sur les planches, l'idée vient au "mari" de se déguiser et de jouer le rôle d'un dragueur charismatique, rigolo mais un un peu "direct", l'inverse de ce qu'il est en réalité. Il devient son partenaire de danse. Petit à petit elle en tombe amoureuse...au grand désespoir du danseur! Un film tout en retenue, avec bcp d'émotions. La qualité vidéo est nickel (dvd), hindi avec sous-titres en français très bien traduits pour une fois!

TOOK the Blu-ray of Rab Ne Bana and I'm still enthused of the film even 14 months later. This is a certified classic, its not just a SRK vehicle but a Blu-ray collectable. The recent BDs I owned featuring SRK are disappointments, most notably Yash Chopra's very last film Jab Tak. The male lead has done almost nothing in at least 60% of the film but show this cloying sweetness in all the scenes with Katrina Kaif. That's the same annoying cloying sweetness shown in Dil - SRK's film that's shoot entirely in New York, with some effeminate/gay hints inserted to spice things up - but has only added to drag the film downward to an embarrasing & much-deserved obscurity. But Rab depicted SRK as a totally believable chameleon, when he acted the part of the ultra-cool pretended alter-ego, he didn't essayed that as an Indian cool dude but as a Sikh bachelor with a coolish attitude. The female lead on the other hand is unendingly enchanting, a triumph for a neophyte for her first film. The only other comparable performance from Sharma is Baaj Baraat - another topnotch BD collectable in Hindi cinema. Sharma is wasted in Jab Tak, but Rab Ni has portent what she could capably do doing musicals. The finale is sumptuous & superb, in fact I spare this precious film from being watched "merely" on the family's Kuro TV. I screened it on a 90" projector screen beamed from an aged Yamaha front projector, where the enchanting Jodi dance - and the awesome "discovery" - is glorious. I need not tell more, this is money well spent, as well-spent as Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om on BD, and on a lesser scale, Pyaar Impossible and Love Aajkal. This is one instance of an "almost-perfect film" - as if the stars just align together on that season when they helmed this (just like how Sound Of Music, Wizard Of Oz, Vertigo turned out), all filmmakers wants to evoked a magic to each & every picture, but oftentimes that magic is elusive and couldn't get duplicated handily on the next picture....

"Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi"... Was soll ich sagen - ich LIEBE diesen Film, ich LIEBE Shah Rukh Khan und ich habe mich sofort in die süße Anushka Sharma verliebt! Trotz des Altersunterschieds von 23 (!) Jahren geben Shah Rukh und Anushka ein wirklich bezauberndes Pärchen ab! Die Chemie stimmt einfach. Shah Rukh spielt den schüchternen Junggesellen "Surinder Sahni" wirklich großartig und vor allem, mit ganz viel Herz! Man muss "Suri" einfach mögen! Sein Alter-Ego "Raj" hingegen ist das genaue Gegenteil: ein Macho, wie er im Buche steht - obercool und ständig am Flirten! Die Newcomerin Anushka meistert die Rolle der jungen, lebenslustigen "Taani" einfach perfekt! Sie ist natürlich, frech und einfach liebenswert! - STORY: Am Sterbebett nimmt Surinder seinem Freund und ehemaligen Mentor das Versprechen ab, seine Tochter Taani zu heiraten und gut für sie zu sorgen. Da deren Zunkünftiger kurz zuvor bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben kam. Surinder willigt sofort ein, immerhin hatte er sich beim ersten Augenblick unsterblich in die süße Taani verliebt. Und auch Taani fügt sich ihrem Schicksal. Nach der Hochzeit nimmt Suri seine Braut mit nach hause, doch Taani scheint eine Andere geworden zu sein. Sie verschanzt sich in ihrem Zimmer und schließt Suri aus ihrem Leben aus. Zudem erklärt sie ihm, dass sie ihn niemals lieben werde... Eines Tages jedoch kommt Tanni mit dem Flyer eines Paar-Tanzwettbewerbs nach hause, an dem sie unbedingt teilnehmen möchte - alleine! Da sieht Suri seine Chance endlich gekommen: mit Hilfe seines Freundes wird er vom Langweiler Suri, zum ultracoolen Raj umgestylt. Sogleich meldet er sich ebenfalls bei besagtem Wettbewerb an und wie es der Zufall will, wird Taani seine Tanzpartnerin. Nach und nach kehrt Taani's Lächeln zurück und für Surinder gibt es nur noch eine Frage: liebt seine Taani etwa Raj, den Obermacho oder liebt sie den einfachen Suri, sein wahres Ich? - SONGS: Die vier Songs sind allesamt großartig und passen perfekt zum Film. Besonders "Haule Haule" oder "Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai" sind einfach wunderschön! - dt.DVD: Schickes Digipack mi Poster und Stickerbogen. Auch das Menü-Design ist wirklich sehr gut gelungen! Die dt. Synchro, sowie Untertitel sind wie immer Top (aber wie immer gilt: Originalsprache ist und bleibt das beste!)! Die Extras (Making of the Movie, Deleted Scenes, SRK & Anushka im Gespräch, Interview mit SRK und Kinotrailer) sind gut ausgewählt und echt sehenswert. - FAZIT: Einen wundervoller Film für alle Romantiker und SRK-Fans! --> Kaufen!

Nice movie.