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Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani - An honest review

I watched Rocky aur Rani ki Prem Kahaani because everyone I know on social media and few close folks in my real life said it was very entertaining - funny, progressive, feminist , and it showed gender equality.

So I was taken aback, because the general sentiment for KJo movies should be ‘It’s so shit, but I love it’ - that is a sentiment I can live with because we all have our guilty pleasures.

KJo has his audience who love the shit he pulls off every time he ‘directs’ a film with toxic masculinity, regressive female leads , justifying infidelity (always the answer to unhappy marriages) , glorifying Indian culture, where he adds 30 mins of melodrama and lectures to make the characters redeem themselves. Kjo’s movies are as lame as they can be, but people love them. I get it - ‘this shit is so bad, it’s so good’ category of films. Guilty pleasures are exactly this!

So sell me his new offering in exactly this manner - but all reviews and social media comments were glowing words of praise of how he has addressed today’s issues and it’s a progressive film. Are people suffering from amnesia or have they not watched better Bollywood films? Because I have a whole list of films you should watch that actually deal with ‘progressive’ mindsets - way before Kjo’s time!

Rani is a feminist. A FL as feisty news anchor who gives a 5 min lecture on men’s gaze, objectification of women and rape culture, but does an absolute U-turn 5 mins later by objectifying a handsome man in front of her. This is gender equality. Tit for Tat.

Wearing open back blouses to work is sign of new age feminism (Will I get trolled for sounding old school - has KJo ever stepped inside a corporate workspace - who dresses like Rani does?) What’s next? Women CEOs wearing bikinis? And why not get all men to dress like Rocky Randhawa - that would be peak gender equality in dress code at workplace.

Infidelity is the answer to all unhappy marriages. Remember KANK? Yes, let’s repeat that here, but let’s twist it into unrequited love between the senior citizens. Then add memory loss and illness excuse to get the 80yr old grandpa smooch his 75yr old ex-lover in front of his wife and entire family. The issue is not old age love, age is never a restriction to fall in love, the issue here is infidelity. But if this isn’t cringe enough, let’s completely destroy the most beautiful romantic number in Bollywood by playing it in the background to immortalise infidelity and later lust under the garb of love.

Let’s get back to our feminism torch bearer Rani, who has now jumped from knowing the guy for two meetings to lusting over him. She is honest with herself (not with Rocky mind you, because at no point have they had any conversation about themselves) that she is in it purely for the physical attraction, it’s just a fling for her. She is an elitist , feminist, Colombian grad, Bengali Girl (who has a terrible Bengali accent) and the crude, can’t speak English well, Gucci/Fendi wearing, Ferrari driving, protein shake drinking, loud Punjabi boy doesn’t match up to her standards. Kjo’s new level of feminism - make women pull the exact shit on men that men have put women through for decades. Tit for Tat! Gender Equality.

Btw at this point I still don’t know why Rocky loves Rani - love at first sight is always about the looks and physical attraction, so convince me why he loves her - because isn’t he this walking-talking green flag just by being understanding of his grandpa’s feelings and calling out Rani checking him out. A walking green flag who gets his grandpa’s ex-lover and his grandpa together to help his grandpa get better - because love is the cure for all illnesses. All doctors and medical researchers have been wasting their time on getting degrees and super specialisations - please enter Kjo’s school of love.

So now Rani realises she is in love - when and why and what changed her feelings from lust to love - I do not know. She drives on a 4-lane highway in the opposite direction - woman should have died there for her reckless driving, but she lives to propose to Rocky on a f&*king Highway! Bollywood I love you for pulling off this shit.

This is supposed to be the pivotal point in their relationship where she professes her love to him, going down on one knee (because hey you see role reversal - she is the feminist, the alpha female) and telling Rocky everything that HE IS NOT , listing her resume and her exes’. Therefore implying he doesn’t deserve her, but she is taking the high road and still falling for him. All the reasons she lists that she loves about him are actually about his physical aspects = Lust. She doesn’t list one meaningful quality that she actually ‘loves’ about him.

It is at this point that I gave up on the film, because after this RRKPK became a collation of scenes dedicated to social media trending topics:

1. Women burdened with household work

2. Women not liberated enough to pursue their dreams

3. Women being fat shamed

4. Cancel culture

5. Men being shamed for pursuing classical dancing (KJo research FFS - 50% of India’s top kathak dancers are males right from 1940s! )

Each topic got 1-2 scenes, tweets converted to preachy dialogues uttered by our ‘feminist’ queen and zero closures or character growth.

The only thing that works in this movie - is Ranveer , not his character, but him! He is effortless in this role, his comic timing is superb, needs some work on emotions.

Alia is a shadow of her awesome self on screen post her marriage to Ranbir. It hurts to say this, cause I have loved her in all her movies except SOTY.

Can people age gracefully, I couldn’t bear to look at Shabana Azmi and Jaya B - former was gorgeous as hell in her younger days, now is swollen with all the Botox fillers! Jaya has forgotten to act completely. Dharmendra should not even be acting anymore.

What was the point of rest of the cast? Only Alia’s dad was a decent act.

The one thing I absolutely love in KJo movies is the music and songs! These were crap too. What Jhumka? Because ruining all the songs from ‘The Golden’ decade of Bollywood was not enough, so they made a terrible mashup of Badtameez Dil & Jhumka Gira Re and killed both the songs in one go! Takes some skill doing this - well done!

Why this long rant if I disliked the movie so much, that too KJo movies? I wouldn’t have written one, if the reviews and comments were honest about the movie being average, typical entertainment; but the moment people praised it to nth level of being socially relevant with feminist heroine and gender equality - they deserved to be called out for their shallow thought process thinking that KJo actually cares about any of this stuff.

Worst people think this is ‘quintessential’ Bollywood. Please watch better films - like Amitabh’s roaring 70s, the romance films of 90s, the fun comedies, the glorious slice of life films from Hrishida, the Yash Chopra multistarrers - that’s quintessential, genuine, charm of Bollywood.

Lastly before I wrap this up - RRKPK when literally translated is Love Story of Rocky and Rani. I spent 2.5 hours on this shit show and I still don’t know the answer to why and how they fell in love! They didn’t have one decent conversation about themselves! The latter half is about them wooing their families. The film should have been aptly titled ‘Randhawa and Chatterjee Ki Prem Kahaani’ - It’s all about loving your family - K3G Part 2!

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Happy Birthday, #FaridaJalal (14/03).

#JayaBhaduri, accompanied by her friend Farida Jalal, on the occasion of her wedding to #AmitabhBachchan.

What are your favourite Farida Jalal roles?

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Jaya Bhaduri

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Posters for Sholay (1975)

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Silsila (1981)  //  dir. Yash Chopra

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Supplemental Episode 17: It's All About Loving Their Family, or Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani with Manish Mathur

After bemoaning the state of Bollywood in our last episode, Karan Johar has given us something worth celebrating!

Show notes:

Thank you Manish Mathur for joining us (and suggesting we record this surprise episode)!

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Jaya Bhaduri>>>> Jaya Bachchan

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Queerness in Indian Media

↳Film: NAVARATHRI (1964, Tamil) dir. A.P. NAGARAJAN / NAVARATRI (1966, Telugu) dir. T. RAMA RAO / NAYA DIN NAI RAAT (1974, Hindi) dir. A. BHIMSINGH

Navarathri follows the story of Nalina (Savitri) who runs away from home. Over the course of the nine nights of Navaratri festival, she encounters nine men (Sivaji Ganesan in a multi-role), each of whom represent one of the Navarasam, or nine human emotions.

On the seventh night she meets an actor, who represents the emotion of Elegance, and his troupe. The actor and his troupe are portrayed as feminine, yet are not villainized--they assist Nalina and even rescue her from a typically male character who attempts to harm her.

On the eighth night, Nalina crossdresses as a man and introduces herself with a male name while meeting with a hunter, which is meant to represent the emotion of Bravery.

The film was remade into Telugu with Savitri reprising her role as protagonist and Akkineni Nageswara Rao as the men, and then in Hindi with Jaya Bhaduri as protagonist and Sanjeev Kumar as the men.

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Bhagwaan ji, Zee music's return to Spotify feels like Jaya Bhaduri welcoming SRK back in K3G.

Fitoor, Sam Bahadur, kalank and so many others. Main ro dungi 😭

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Retro music is my first love #2

This song just hits hard. It's really hard to write a poetic song of a heartbroken lover expressing his agony in front of his ex-lover. These lyrics written by great Lyricist Majrooh Sultanapuri hits very differently.

After all this song's sung by Great singer Kishore Kumar, that's going to be legendary right? He has immersed those painful expressions into the song that makes it so emotional.

R D Burman's music just slays everything. This song is one of his great compositions.

This song is from a romantic mystery thriller cult classic movie Anamika starring Sanjeev Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan.

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Many casual bollywood fans don't know this but Jaya Bachchan (previously Bhaduri) is a VERY SUCCESSFUL (critically and commercially) actress. When she started dating Amitabh he was literally a nobody in front of her. I agree that she seems horrid IRL but I think that's probably because of her husband's infidelity and the patriarchal set up of the Bachachn clan. She certainly never lived off her husband's fame. Previously she was way more successful and when she quit acting or took a long break she joined Politics and became a Member of Parliament.

It's their kids who live off their fame and of course Aishwarya's successful stature would have threatened the clan's patriarchal set-up.

A lot of people are simply not aware of the fact that Jaya Bhaduri was one of the best actors of her era and has great self earned fame.

yeah well tbf i've only ever seen her in k3g and imo that was pretty underwhelming a role for someone so established. i did hear abt her early on fame though. guess life has made her bitter and i don't blame her cuz whew however i definitely feel she's made aish very unwelcome maybe for that very reason. speaking of, saw aish interact with rekha at the wedding so👀

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Bollywood Tadka: Jaya Bhaduri Shines in "Guddi"

“Guddi" marks Jaya Bhaduri's debut in Hindi cinema – a perfect blend of Bollywood masala and Marathi charm. Experience the entertainment mix masala in this latest Marathi movie, promising a delightful journey through the world of cinema. Don't miss the opportunity to savor the Bollywood tadka and catch exclusive celebrity interviews. Read now!

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"UPHAAR" - HINDI MOVIE REVIEW | JAYA BHADURI MOVIE | CINEMA TALKIES |

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AMITABH BACHCHAN WITH JAYA BHADURI IN A PHOTO SHOOT