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Loo and ciggie breaks, in other words, these are not. (There’s an affectionate, black-and-white docu-homage to a Filmfare Awards ceremony from the 1970s.) His Jaan-e-Mann is a musical in the best sense of the word – not just because it has songs and dances, but because these songs and dances often take the place of dialogue and become inseparable from the narrative. (The irony, of course, is that they already are in a movie!) That sly self-awareness (and self-referencing) of genre conventions is what made Farah Khan’s Main Hoon Na so much fun, and now we see that her husband, Kunder, appears equally in love with the Bollywood of old. In a way, he’s fashioned an entire script that seemingly takes off from an offhand conversation between the just-fallen-in-love Farooque Shaikh and Deepti Naval in Chashme Buddoor, where they laugh about the fact that if this were a movie, they’d suddenly be bursting into song, with rhyming lyrics and music and chorus dancers and all. The last thing you’d associate with our cinema is a nod to either Kubrick or cosmology – never mind that an intrepid lyricist once roped in the moon and the stars to acknowledge the incomparable beauty of, gulp, Zarina Wahab Chand jaise mukhde pe bindiya sitara… – but first-time director Shirish Kunder does reach for the moon and the stars, literally and otherwise.
Strauss’ Blue Danube waltz plays on the soundtrack as the images on screen seem to be set in – wait for this! – the far reaches of outer space it’s all very 2001. – RIGHT FROM THE START, you know Jaan-e-Mann’s not going to be your regular Hindi movie. Yes, it overstays its welcome, but the ‘other’ Diwali release is the year’s most imaginative romance.