Student Of The Year

 

First off, a million thanks a to Mr.(??) Karan Johar...for making such an amazing cinema. With the amazing story-line and the amazing pace, I could not even realize how the time passed while watching a beautiful imagination appear on the celluloid.

I mean really, I am grateful to Mr. (again “??”) KjO...for making the young generation show how the school life should be enjoyed...or better...how it should be lived. How competitive you must be throughout...even if your father is a billionaire. 

I really learned a lot. I passed my school about 15 years back...and I really got worried, after watching this “fantastick” melodrama, about my achievements. 

The guy who wins the Student of The Year award goes out in the world to become the most successful musician (really?) and grows beard to look serious...an ultimate idea !

The guy who loses the competition by an inch or so...becomes the very successful investment banker....with a company that has a turnover of about 400 crore (oh come on !)....marries the most beautiful girl from school who initially was the winner’s girlfriend...but eventually realizes her true love....

and after all these achievements the “foe turned friends turned foe again”...come to see their dying teacher who had ended the SOTY competition with a lot of controversy and drama...and they fight...and then they start cursing each other...and then the fight stops and just the cursing continues....and they unearth the secret (you kidding?) that was kept hidden for 10 years...(of course the secret is about how the winner guy wins and knows that the loser guy lost it on purpose)....and then the foes...turn friends again on measuring their successes based on how many girls (this is too much) they were with....

I literally could not move an inch from my seat until the movie was complete...even after the end credits (because I did not really understand why the movie began and why and when and how it ended....basically in sheer confusion)

So a quick three pointer could be as follows:-

    

1. The actors are really the directors' actors. As the Dhawan lad...appears pretty much like KjO himself (even he looks like him at times I suspect)...while the Bhatt girl....is told to mime the leftovers Pooo from K3G....the third guy....(He is the tall version of Shahid Kapoor who enacts SRK at every step probably because KjO said so)...dons a pretty good job...and delivers what has been told.
2. The music appears to be good...as it is a mix of all the old peppy songs such as Disco Deewane, the intros of the characters...Gulabi Ankhe...Papa Kehte Hai, etc...and stolen (I am sorry, please read “Inspired”) guitar pieces from all over the world every now and then...but it sucks big time...when it shows the original pathetic numbers.
3. The movie is totally made for youngsters, who may not understand or are beyond understanding the difference between facts, fictions and MTV Roadies....for girls who envy to be the most beauti'fool' girl and think the guys are hot only since they have abs....for boys who believe that Indian education system is so wrong and it should not be measured on the academic achievements.....and for people who have nothing to do but sit at home and just chill because they do not have “anything in FRONT of them” to achieve.

But to be honest, I slept like a baby the night I saw the movie....and I was dreaming to be in a similar school one day....where I can go in a lamborghini and still drink coffee at the stall outside campus...where my talents were measured on my treasure hunting intelligence, dancing skills and my stamina to win a triathlon and not on my academic records at all...and even though I suck at all of them...I would grow old to be one of the most successful people in the world...such as Investment bankers (yeah right...!!!) and lawyers (thats what I thought when I looked at you)....etc.

Where I could have the ability to spot a fat (ready to burst or better ‘a bullfrog’) guy smile while watching his kid lose in the full packed stadium while I am running the last race of the triathlon head to head with my foe turned friend turned enemy...

And then I woke up...got ready....went to work....sat in front of my laptop and started working....and thought....

“It was nice to see Farida Jalal after a really long time“

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