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Shortcomings in your script Script, Aditya!!!

posted 21 years ago by freddiejason
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I don't know it may be too late for saying this but I have wanted to say this since a long time. I loved Aditya Chopra's Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge but Mohabbatein had just a couple too many weaknesses. Don't get me wrong. I liked mohabbatein too but did not love it.
[1] When Shahrukh tells Jugal Hansraj that he should keep loving Kim inspite of her having a boyfriend. Didn't make any sense. What would have made sense :- Shahrukh should have asked jugal to be around Kim and make sure kim was happy in her life.
[2] Anupam and Archana had no relevence with the movie. Shouldn't have been included in the film. Perhaps Adi wanted to do a lucky mascot favor to Anupam!!!
[3] Amrish Puri had such a miniscule and incosequential role. One moment he believed his son was alive and all that non-sense AND one verbal outlash...boom...he starts thinking sensibly.
[4] Amitabh handing over reigns of gurukul to Shahrukh, the least experienced faculty member of gurukul???? What could have been done:- Amrish or Anupam could have been vice principal (with a character developed in such a way that he could have been showed to have a soft spot for Shahrukh and the boys and/or what Shahrukh and boys represented i.e. LOVE.) and in the end Amitabh could have made principal out of the vice-principal or Shahrukh could have done that.
[5] Uday's character was shown to lie about him being rich and later he tells Shamita that he is not rich. OK, this made sense but you know what would have been super, in the end could have shown a limo or a helicopter or something representing Uday's wealth i.e. could have shown that Uday was indeed a very rich guy and he was just humble about it.

All said and done, nobody could have handled this star cast better than Aditya. he did the best he could but hey Adi, fire your writers!!!

[–] MagicCJK 20 years ago

>> [1] When Shahrukh tells Jugal Hansraj that he should keep loving Kim inspite of her having a boyfriend.

On this point I agree with Raj Aryan's charater. He is not saying that you should keep pushing her to love you back, he is saying that love is unconditional. Just like Raj Aryan's girlfriend, he did not love her on the condition that she would outlive him, he just loves her. If you love someone then you just love them, not love them on the condition that they love you. You can't just forget your feelings, even if you don't have fate to be with the one you love.

[–] freddiejason 20 years ago

I agree that what he said was okay but what I am trying to convey here is that it is not okay from movie-making point of view. They couldn't have shown that the movie ends and Jugal still loves Kim and she loves her boyfriend. A movie has got to culminate and for that Raj Aryan could have told Jugal that you should keep loving her and make sure she is happy with who-ever she is with.

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[–] DreamyGirl247 18 years ago

I disagree with you, the script was perfect and if you still think that way then it's obvious that you missed the point of that entire dialogue.

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[–] bballgrl2134 17 years ago

I COMPLETELY disagree with all of your points. (no offense)
1. SRK told Jugal that he didn't love her on the condition that she would love him back. And that's a movie line...would anyone say that in real life? It adds to the emotion of the movie. That one part of the movie was really significant in the movie cause otherwise they would just give and have no story. If Jugal's character truly loved Sanju than he wouldn't mind her being happy with her boyfriend.
2. It was comic relief. It wasn't put in a way that there was no reason for it. Just because they weren't young didnt mean they weren't a love story too. On Valentine's Day in the story, Anupam had told told Archana that he still loved her but due to his stupidity she wouldn't love him back. That sounds like a love story to me. So it was significant even if it was comic relief. I liked it because it wasn't put in so randomly like movies nowadays.
3. Some people are like that. One thing can cause a breakthrough. Especially because he's old fashioned and in denial. People like that tend to be very stubborn. Jimmy Shergill's character inspired Amrish Puri's character to let Kiran go and accept the fact that his son is gone.
4. If Anupam Kher or Amrish Puri was Vice Principal, Amitabh Bachchan probably wouldn't be so stubborn because they'd probably be friends, and that would upset the point of the movie. Plus SRK becoming principal was very touching at the end because he accepted as a son. You know like an inheritence. A passing on.
5. That's not exactly a shortcoming is it? Its more of an add-on, but that wouldn't have made such a significance to the story but it would be funny (: