I Don't Know About You But I Liked Jhoom

Call me an idiot, but I did.

Even though I was the only one who wasn't groaning by the interval.

Even though the film had Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta in starring roles.

Even though it had Amitabh Bachchan dancing around in full Gipsy/Pirate/Minstrel costume (and not looking too happy about it either).

Even though it had Preity Zinta in it (- which should be enough really -) playing a character "...more Brit than the Queen herself..." (according to yashrajfilms.com) - I liked that Yashraj is secure enough to laugh at themselves like that.


I liked the Hippie-Chic/Boho/Hipster-Buzzword wardrobe they had - way to make us relate to the characters guys.

I liked that they had the Full Uncut Rap Trailer for Chak De India on just before the film - I guess it was their way of warning us, or punishing us. Or maybe it was a test - If you could sit through that you could sit through anything, and then they went about proving it. Or maybe it was just so that we don't think the film to be so bad, by comparison - like when you stare at the Sun for too long and then look at something else, y'know, it seems darker and bluer,that was what the trailer was like - Staring at the Sun.

I liked Lara Dutta's acting in the film. I mean the french accent was pretty putain good, non? And all South-Asian-English Hookers swear like that don't they? All the time too, just 'cause they're that hardcore.

I liked Bobby Deol in the film, as I'm sure all you ladies did too. I mean they show him surrounded by women, all vying for his attention and when he gets up they freeze on his face and play that song "Main Jatt ...", y'know that famous song with Dharmendra from, uh, that film. Anyway, that was enough to convince me that he was a Babe.

I liked that Preity Zinta had a Gay Best Friend (tm). Not only did it show how modern her character was, you remember the character who was upset because a strange man accidently brushed against her hand and then told him she was engaged (when she wasn't) to get rid him and/or because she couldn't deal with her own feelings for him at the moment, yeah her, how current she is, but also shows how accepting people have become of Non-threatening (Realistically) Effeminate Gay Men around the world, like in that scene when they go to see Bobby Deol and he tells him to go away because his mummy told him to keep away from him.

I liked that the entire cast of Kumars had cameos in the film - Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar in memorable ones, while uh, the other two in um, token roles, 'y'know for the fans.
[Most people missed Mr. Kumar, he played Preity Zinta's Character's (Totally forgot the name, thank gods) Dad, you can see him when the fake Bobby Deol totally impresses Preity Zinta by telling her he's been stalking her and taping her.]

I liked that they used music to forward the story instead of just as imagined romantic interludes - of course the story was one big imagined romantic interlude, and the part that wasn't was set in a disco.


I liked that I paid 110 Rs. to see this movie - it made me realize the value of each and every rupee as I sat thinking about everything else I could have spent it on while waited for them to open the exits.