Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Fantasy of the ‘common mass’ comes alive.

About Heroine : The girl is Asian born but thanks to TV, films , Internet and other sources of visual information, she can see very well that the British (westerners) are fair and much more beautiful/handsome to look at – thus she
longs to be like them – be one of them ! Thus as an innocent child of 6-7 years
,she even goes to the extent of going to the church and praying to lord Christ
that she does not want a ‘Kala Kaluta’ (pathetically dark skinned) man as her
life partner but someone as fair as Him !!

About Hero : He is some Ricky Thakral who is into the business of selling antique pieces to foreigners – as they are the only ones capable of giving a good price for the item. Since he is into Marketing and
selling so he obviously is a smooth talker.

Meeting Point : The Hero and Heroin meet at a Railway Station. The train was late by 2 hours so he decides to spend some time yakking with a pretty Lady who was sitting alone. He goes and sits in front of her and
knowing that men are flirts , the heroin (Priety Zinta) quickly changes a ring
to her ring finger and shows to him that she is engaged – so as to get rid of
him. The hero (Abhishek Bachchan) also pretends to be engaged – although they
both were single.

Now they both start building up castles in the air – and each relate a false story of their imaginary fiancé …and this is what the movie is all about. Shows the fantasies of the common mass – what they think of and
want they eventually land up with ! and because what they imagine can never
come true – they usually lead an absolutely sad & unhappy life full of
pretensions !

Preity relates that her fiancé was a filthy rich fella – handsome and sauve and how he floored her in a typical filmy style !

The Hero makes a pretty looking (Lara Dutta) Hotel Manager fall for his charms – in his imagination of course - and Priety makes a rich, good looking multi millionaire (Bobby Deol) fall for her ..thus showing that
middle class and lower middle class family people only and always think of
either how to be very rich without working hard or / and have the best looking
rich partner to ‘hump’ for the rest of life !

The waiting period is over and both fall for each other instead !! She finds him utterly romantic and he finds her rather charming ! but harm has already been done as both think that the other one is already
engaged. They then decide to meet again but now with their respective fiancés .

Hero hires a Prostitute (Lara Dutta) to temporarily play the role of his fiancé and heroine hires a shopkeeper – a spectacle sales man (Bobby Deol) to play the role!

Bobby Deol is a mama’s boy and belongs to a middle class family. Because he is good looking so all the Lady customers are seen flirting with him – kinda showing their twin assets by bending down etc. (amazing ..I
didn’t know Indian females were so desperate for good looking men !! ..that
they would flirt with a petty shop keeper as well….. to quench their sexual
frenzy? !)

They train them and introduce them to each other.

Guess what happens? – mama’s boy Bobby falls for the prostitute ! She keeps repeating that she is a whore but he still wants to have her as his wife !! Mama’s boy knew that all women were after all whorish
natured (remember he had desperate housewives coming to him for eye check up?)
– at least he found her to be genuine and not a hypocrite – she boldly
proclaimed that she was a Prostitute – unlike desperate housewives who pretend
to be goody goody wives but actually would readily undress for any mongrel at
the bat of an eyelid !! Thus it is shown that his mother keeps calling him from
behind but he waves her goodbye and goes away with the Prostitute…into oblivion
!

Abhishek ties the knot with Priety. She declines the proposal of a well established working man for a petty antique salesman – a smooth operator and talker – living more or less hand to mouth on loans and
befooling people……(deep sigh) women never learn – like camels eating thorns as
staple diet !!

Occasionally there were bouts of music by three men – who reached in God forsaken places with their instruments…and Senior Bachchan was made to wear a scare crow’s hat in order to promote this ridiculously
fabricated movie !