Baar
Baar Dekho: Rewind, Forward, Rewind and Dekho!
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Nitya Mehra’s ‘Baar
Baar Dekho’ is an earnest attempt to tell that life in the ‘Here and Now’ is
more beautiful than in the past and the future; therefore, stay in the ‘Here
and Now’. And it is the most challenging task for many of us because the past
haunt us and the future is too promising and hence, we lose sight of the
present. In the quest of making the future ‘picture perfect’ we avoid ‘the
moment’ in hand that can give us assured happiness than the one in the future.
Nitya Mehra’s lead
protagonist Jai Varma gets baffled to find himself time traveling and seeing
visuals of his life in the future that can make him lose and ruin his personal
life. Shuttling from past, future and the present Jai Varma learns the most
important lessons of life to stay happy and make it worthy. Through Jai Varma
and his lady love Diya Kapoor aka DK we also time travels and tries to pick up
possible challenges and mistakes we are committing or may commit. In due course
of time in the movie hall many of us may end up realizing the importance of the
‘Here and Now’ and may also decide to ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ our life to escape or
deal with the impending danger of losing out the subtle happiness present in
our life.
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The story of ‘Baar
Baar Dekho’ hovers around two childhood friends Jai and Diya who are about to
get married but are locked up in a dilemma because Jai wants to focus more on
his professional life and career. He doesn’t want to lose the most cherished
offer of pursuing his research on Vedic mathematics in the prestigious
universities like Harvard and Cambridge. And he gets more perplexed and finds
himself on the crossroads whether to say yes or no to Diya when he receives one
such offer from his most liked university and that too a few days before his
marriage. Shattered by Jai’s reluctance to get married, Diya walks out of her
newly bought fully furnished apartment by her rich father Mr. Kapoor (Boman
Irani) leaving behind Jai to deal with his dilemma. A drunken Jai wakes up to
find himself in a different time zone that is ten days after his marriage in
Thailand celebrating his honeymoon with Diya. This leap of time zones continues
from 10 days, two years, 16 years and then 34 years ahead.
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The debutant director
Nitya Mehra along with her writer friends Sri Rao and Anuvab Pal in the haste
of telling us life philosophies forgot or may have missed the importance of
entertaining the audience by etching out fully each characters in the movie and
creating moments and scenes to get convinced to what they want to convey as a
message. For instance, Jai doesn’t appear as a selfish and self-centered boy,
lover and a husband; there are no sufficient family moments to show their
relationship turbulence; the parents and friends are having very less role in
the whole happenings shown in the leaps of time zones and there is not a single
moment of humour in any of the frames. Unfortunately, the most attempted
concept of time travel in Hollywood could have been done much better by the
team of ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ which they missed by a whisker.
Sarika (Mom of Diya),
Ram Kapoor, Rajit Kapur (Pandit), Sayani Gupta (Common Friend) are good in
their respective roles but deserved more space in the plot to justify their
roles. When Dharma and Excel join hands it’s bound to give a damn good look to
their movie and we find it here too with fine production values. Ravi K
Chandran’s cinematography holds your attention and the locations are very
beautiful.
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Katrina Kaif as Diya
Kapoor looks stunning but doesn’t look or act differently from rest of her
movies. She has a copycat effect which she may need to work on. Siddharth
Malhotra as Jai Varma is handsome and is left with no choice but to remain
bewildered throughout the movie because of the untimely and unexpected time
zone leaps he encounters. He does age because of the expensive and
sophisticated prosthetics but could have supported the same by his acting
skills which he fails to pay attention to.
In short, Baar Baar
Dekho has lessons for life but very little to entertain. Though, the film ends
with the already hit item song ‘Kaala Chasma’, you walk out with a clear lens to
revisit your life with a resolve to be worthy of what you have in your life in
the ‘Here and Now’ and live each day at a time. Go and watch ‘Baar Baar Dekho’
but not ‘Baar Baar’ only once!
Life
Connoisseur Movie Rating: 3/5
Cast:
Sidharth Malhotra (Jai Varma), Katrina Kaif (Diya Kapoor), Sarika, Ram Kapoor,
Sayani Gupta (Chitra), Rajit Kapur, Rohan Joshi, Taaha Shah Badusha (Tarun)
Genre:
Romance
Director:
Nitya Mehra
Producers:
Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar
Written
by:
Anvita Dutt (Dialogues)
Screenplay:
Nitya Mehra, Anuvab Pal, Sri Rao
Story
by:
Sri Rao
Music
by:
Amaal Mallik, Arko, Badshah, Jasleen Royal, Bilaal Saeed
Cinematography:
Ravi K Chandran
Edited
by:
Amitabh Shukla
Production:
Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment
Distributor:
Eros International
Release
Date: 9th September, 2016
Duration:
141 Minutes
Language:
Hindi
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