Movie: Jab We Met
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Year: 2007
Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Tarun Arora

Snapshot of the story
“Same recipe with new cover on it” but it tastes a bit different from others and is good. Director Imtiaz Ali is not afraid of experiment and touched new heights in direction with “Jab We Met”. The story revolves around the two persons who are in love with some other person but as the fate has something else in their lives they meet each other. As they start spending time together they fall in love with each other. Story is perfectly handled with perfection by Imtiaz Ali which makes it look sweet and peppy love story.

Storyline
Aditya (played by Shahid Kapoor) is an industrialist and in love with a girl, but unfortunately the girl gets married to another person and the heartbroken Aditya being unable to muster up the courage to return home aimlessly boards the train bounding away into night.

On the other hand, a beautiful and annoyingly talkative girl Geet (played by Kareena Kapoor) leaves Mumbai to return her hometown Bhatinda. Co-incidentally both of them cross one another’s path by boarding the same train. Geet with her talkative nature irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. Another misfortune happens there and both of them find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money. Then both of them travel through bus, taxies and even in bullock cart to reach Bhatinda. Ths part of the movie is full of fun and confusion as Geet’s family think that Aditya is the boy friend. Soon both go back to their normal life ending it no high note. Both Aditya and Geet after an month with different situation in life and has feeling for each other but now both has confused feeling where they like each other or not and this keeps momentum of the story. First half of the movie is filled with fun, humor and charismatic presence of Kareena.

“Jab We Met” is peppy love story and Imtiaz Ali has made it look fresh. Story gives you plenty of reasons to laugh and one can take get lost in sweet screen romance of Kareena and Shahid. This is the story when Shahid and Kareena were having and affair which helped them portraying romantic scenes with ease.

Final Thoughts

First half of the movie is the best part of the movie and makes the audiences glued to their seat. Fresh story, good screenplay, charisma of Kareena Kapoor and impressive Sahid Kapur made it hit and Music by Pritam was icing on the cake. Pritam has did a successfully experiment with music as the fusion of Indian and western and made popular within young crowd. All in all a good entertaining movie with few hick up there and there this can easily be ignored.

Rating

“Jab We Met” scores 8 out of 10 for good music, mature performance, good all round performance in music helped in wining National Award for “Yeh Ishq Hai”. Movie did good office collection of $30 million.

Shahid Kapoor’s another average romantic movie - Mausam