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Post by rubicon on Nov 22, 2013 18:52:10 GMT
It's getting mixed reviews: "Punit's 'GTPM', is a sweet, breezy romcom with likeable characters presented in glossy, lavish, true Karan Johar (producer) style. In the second half, the 'the bridge over troubled waters' project is a bit stretched, and you wish the gaonwallahs would leave the pair to romance instead. Music (Vishal-Shekhar) is peppy and pleasing.This isn't the most rousing romance (second-half lacks 'rom'), but has its feel-good moments. Chew it up with some 'Chingam' and a cute date." - Times of IndiaGori Tere Pyaar Mein is essentially two different films separated by an intermission, with a few, weak common threads between the two. Gori Tere Pyaar Mein’s saving grace is that it is a love story and the second half will manage to melt your heart, if only slightly. It’s the classic opposites attract story and hey, if you’re into that kind of thing, this might be your kind of film. - RediffIt’s painful. It’s drab. It's unromantic. And, it’s anything but funny (even unintentionally).Punit desperately tries to nail the Karan Johar style of rom-coms by packing in the staple ingredients but he’s unable to tie it together. There are numerous songs and dances but none that are peppy enough. Many costume changes and dressed up backdrops, but none that leave us mesmerized. There are even attempts at being cheeky with Bollywood’s infamous romances by referencing lines/songs/moments, but none of the efforts are impressive enough.This one’s a no-brainer, really. Do not to waste your money on this movie. - Sneha May Francis
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Post by corbie on Nov 23, 2013 16:15:04 GMT
I am actually looking forward to this one a lot. I missed RamLeela last weekend so am seeing this one either next Sunday or Thursday if it will be gone. I don't pay much attention to reviews and what others think. I sometimes miss what I considered a good movie by listening to reviews when I finally do see it. I do end up seeing very bad ones others liked.
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NewLaura
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Post by NewLaura on Nov 25, 2013 3:22:14 GMT
I thought it was cute and pleasant. I enjoyed the filmi references. I also liked the Tamil wedding preparations. I liked the village setting in the second half.
Imran and Kareena didn't exactly tear up the screen with their chemistry. I think I actually liked Imran better here with Shraddha Kapoor. There's something wrong if you're rooting for the wrong couple.
All in all, I think I liked I Hate Luv Storys better than this one, though. It was funnier, had a better romance, and played to Imran's strengths.
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Post by jabimetbollywood on Nov 25, 2013 5:54:17 GMT
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Post by corbie on Nov 25, 2013 16:03:36 GMT
I will be seeing this one either Thursday or next Sunday. Depends on if Thursday is the last day. We saw RamLeela and it was crowded on the second week and this one had almost no one.
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Post by MrB on Nov 25, 2013 17:46:03 GMT
I will be seeing this one either Thursday or next Sunday. Depends on if Thursday is the last day. We saw RamLeela and it was crowded on the second week and this one had almost no one. Interesting - that was the opposite of our experience: Ram Leela was fairly empty and GTPM was packed out. And rightly so - GTPM is a worthwhile timepass. There is no great chemistry between the leads, but the film has most of the right ingredients, is competently put together, looks good, and pulls all the right strings. It's entertaining and undemanding, which is damning with faint praise, but the standard of competition has not been high this year so I am feeling well-inclined to it.
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Post by allshewrote on Nov 25, 2013 19:21:59 GMT
I enjoyed it, although I thought that it could have been more novel. IMO, there was a lot more mileage in the story of two rebellious, yet cowardly persons staring down the barrel of an unwanted arranged marriage than in the story between Imran's and Kareena's characters. I know that I am setting myself up for a lot of rom-com heartbreak, but I am over the instant love story between the overgrown, shiftless "romantic" hero and the ornamental romantic heroine.
On a shallow note, I thought Imran looked more handsome than I have seen him before. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to make me buy him as a freewheeling playboy. He really has to work hard to overcome his boy-next-door presence.
By the way, there were no subtitles for the songs and some of the dialogue. I don't think I missed much (as the little that I could make out of the lyrics suggested they weren't that deep), but it did take me by surprise.
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Post by MrB on Nov 27, 2013 8:34:24 GMT
The Vigil Idiot's view: Gori Tere Pyaar Mein. As usual the criticisms are spot on and, if they were a real-life couple, I'd give the relationship 6 months. But none of that stopped me enjoying it.
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Post by dancelover on Nov 27, 2013 18:21:24 GMT
In theaters near Philadelphia PA, the title used is "Girl ... in your love." That might confuse those who are looking for it. Note: Most Hindi titles are not changed here.
Dancelover
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Post by jabimetbollywood on Nov 27, 2013 22:18:45 GMT
In theaters near Philadelphia PA, the title used is "Girl ... in your love." That might confuse those who are looking for it. Note: Most Hindi titles are not changed here. Dancelover That's a very clunky attempt to make an English version of the title, isn't it? I wonder whose bright idea that was.
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odadune
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Post by odadune on May 24, 2014 22:52:06 GMT
Having just seen this, I thought it worked well as a fluffy Dharma production that tries to address some of the things fluffy Dharma productions sweep under the rug...without ceasing to be a fluffy Dharma production itself. The comments on social hypocrisy (rich part-time do-gooders; people who celebrate their freedom fighter ancestors while being part of the corruption problem) were nicely understated, and I appreciated the comparative lack of screaming and hysterics when people got mad at each other, and there was a lot of dry humor (like anything related to Sriram's "chickentarianism") that made me chuckle. I was not that wowed by Kareena's "village clothes" or Shraddha's "modern" clothes but almost everything else people wore was stunning.
There were a couple of somewhat off-color picturizations; I did not care for Dhat Teri Ki when I first come across it, and although I still don't care for the lyrics, I think the picturization works in context: it's the first thing we see of the protagonist, and does a good, more-or-less PG-rated job of depicting him at the bottom of his personal arc. As for "Tooh" the lyrics as rendered on bollymeaning.com come off as a bit raunchy, but the picturization's no worse than anything else you'd see in Bollywood's version of a Punjabi wedding.
I liked the female characters: they're both filmed and presented in a very idealized way, but what they had to say for themselves felt real enough. Kareena's performance was slightly over the top in some ways, but still appealing (I love her being all steely and determined). Shraddha also looked lovely and has an expressive face, although her line readings were very flat outside of the big scene right before intermission. I find her screen persona kind of odd but fascinating; I hope she sticks around long enough to grow as an actress. I've seen some very negative comments elsewhere on Imran's performance in this one, and felt like they weren't really warranted. IMO, Imran does well with what he is given, but the character's inconsistently written, I think-he comes off as too sharp and observant to be quite as self-absorbed as the film makes him out to be, and the two land deals he works behind his girlfriend's back both damaged my sympathy for him a lot (but since a lot of the film is just smirking at the trouble he gets himself into, it didn't damage my enjoyment of the film that much). The second half did feel overly long, but I'd be hard-pressed to point at something in particular that needed cutting-maybe just eliminate Anupam's character (whose change of heart is so abrupt it feels like a last minute addition) in favor of a brief scene with a bureaucrat who refers them to the MP, have the sequence with the bridge dedication, fastforward through bridge building to reconciliation, boom, done, have that cute village dance sequence play over the end credits.
This was originally a two-hero film story: I think the Kamal character was supposed to be the other hero and the ex-boyfriend (rather than current boyfriend) of Vasu, and she and Sriram were supposed to trade love stories until they both ran away from their wedding to find their lost loves, and discovered that Kamal/Dia were together. The problems were mostly with nobody they approached (including Saif, Shahid and Imran) being okay with a two-hero project, but I think the writer-director might also have had trouble finding a way to get everyone back together with their significant others in the end. If it had been me, I don't think I would have bothered: just frame the story as a series of flashbacks on both Sriram's and Vasu's part, they hear about Kamal and Dia being together, and jointly run away from the wedding to find their loves, the end, and let the viewer decide who gets whom.
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Post by rose on Jun 17, 2014 5:10:26 GMT
This is yet another movie that confuses me about what the critics/audience want. Based on a few viewings, I wouldn't have expected this to be a major flop and career poison.
I like it a lot. I skip most of the songs, if only because Imran can't lip sync for his life, but I think it's a good light watch that isn't totally brainless.
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Post by odadune on Jun 19, 2014 13:17:51 GMT
This is yet another movie that confuses me about what the critics/audience want. Based on a few viewings, I wouldn't have expected this to be a major flop and career poison. I like it a lot. I skip most of the songs, if only because Imran can't lip sync for his life, but I think it's a good light watch that isn't totally brainless. Yeah, that's a good description of it. I personally think Dharma did a poor job of promoting it, basically just plugging it as "hey that couple you liked in the other movie is back together," when they could perhaps have made more of Shraddha's involvement (this released about 6-9 months after Aashiqui 2, so she was a comparatively hot property) and of Imran's character as a party animal who despises the hypocrisy of his elders and Finds A Purpose In Life. But the media for some reason decided to start gunning for Imran in early 2013, about the time his movie with Anushka and Pankaj Kapoor released, and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara did not help. Some years the media/the moviegoing public just decide they don't want anything to do with a particular performer* and that might have been Imran's turn in the barrel. *It's not permanent, a lot of the people who get this treatment bounce back eventually if they manage to stay in the game.
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Post by rose on Jun 21, 2014 11:59:31 GMT
This is yet another movie that confuses me about what the critics/audience want. Based on a few viewings, I wouldn't have expected this to be a major flop and career poison. I like it a lot. I skip most of the songs, if only because Imran can't lip sync for his life, but I think it's a good light watch that isn't totally brainless. Yeah, that's a good description of it. I personally think Dharma did a poor job of promoting it, basically just plugging it as "hey that couple you liked in the other movie is back together," when they could perhaps have made more of Shraddha's involvement (this released about 6-9 months after Aashiqui 2, so she was a comparatively hot property) and of Imran's character as a party animal who despises the hypocrisy of his elders and Finds A Purpose In Life. But the media for some reason decided to start gunning for Imran in early 2013, about the time his movie with Anushka and Pankaj Kapoor released, and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara did not help. Some years the media/the moviegoing public just decide they don't want anything to do with a particular performer* and that might have been Imran's turn in the barrel. *It's not permanent, a lot of the people who get this treatment bounce back eventually if they manage to stay in the game. You're probably right about the promo and def right about people not being here for Imran lately. The comments on his performance are harsh. I'll nag on his lack of lip sync, but he was very believable here, playing someone so unlikable. Maybe a bit too much? His character did actually physically recoil from HIV+ orphans
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