Jab We Met is a poetry. The metaphor is that the train
symbolises the way of life. There are two passengers, two ways of life and the
movie is of two halves. In the first half, we fall in love with Geet, who is a
bubbly, young, carefree girl trying to live life as it comes by following her
heart. Everything works fine for her that way, till the beginning of the second
half. Aditya is depressed with his life;
he does not know what he is seeking but the moment he understands Geet and her
world, he gets his answer - C'est La Vie.
The second half makes life easier for Aditya who learned to
live life to the fullest from Geet. Taking decisions at his family business by
following his heart makes his company witness success that it had never seen
before.
The movie has a connect and the connector is Geet. She is so
full of life that after the first half, I wished that their journey from Mumbai
to Bhatinda had a little more show time. There is a sweet scene in the second
half where Aditya asks Geet to shed her tension wala face and make the earlier
bubbly wala face, and Geet makes that for a second. The film has many such feel-good
scenes.
Imtiaz Ali went on to make Highway which is yet another
journey involving rediscovering life. Even Tamasha which is his next is based on
the theme of reinventing self. His movies have marvellous landscapes. Jab We
Met is set in the northern part of India. The movies are
visually so beautiful with exhaustive natural aspects whether it is the scene
where Geet calls Aditya to meet her in the lush green fields at five in the
morning or their jeep journey to Anshuman’s place where they travel on roads
sandwiched between snow clad mountains. There is a freshness in his movies which
can be felt throughout.
The running behind the trains scene from DDLJ is an eternal
one. Jab we met has many of them because Geet has this record of never having
missed any train in her life. When she chooses Anshuman over Aditya towards the
film’s end, she says, ‘Aisa lag raha he ki koi train chootne wali he’ where she
refers to the intuition of her life decision going wrong. The Punjabi family
shown in the family is a true blue Punjabi family; enthusiastic and dare devil.
The energy in the song Nagada Nagada is super contagious.
Finally all is well in the end when Geet and Aditya marry
and have kids. Just before the end credits, the four of them are talking to the
Late Dara Singh where he says, ‘Arey bachho, hamare umar me waqt nahi lagta. Ek
jhalak kaafi hoti he, ye jaanne ke liye ki ladke aur ladki k beech kya chal raha
he’ and Aditya says ‘Jee daarji’ and the end credits roll. What a movie!
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