Yeh Saali Zindegi

Yesterday evening , half an hour into the movie (Yeh Saali Zindegi), one of my friend told me that  I am definitely going to write a blog on this movie. I tried hard to prove him wrong.

But anyhow I am here writing this.

To start with , this is a hindi movie which I enjoyed to watch full length ,after longtime. This is a not
movie to watch with your girlfriend (of course , if she is not a admirer of swearing words on love ,
women & sex) . This is a movie to watch with your friends.

I am not going to be a killjoy by revealing the plot. I will just limit myself to the characters and some
of the dialogues which i think i remember

Arun ( Irrafan Khan ) : I was thinking who could have donned the role of Arun better than Irrfan Khan.
I thought about top actors in present bollywood ,  five khans , one kapoor , one kumar , one roshan even
thought about bachhan (junior one) . None of them could have come close. (nothing personal here )
May be ajay devgan could have done justice to the role. But Irrfan Khan was perfect.

The most important aspect of acting is when your audience forgets that you are acting. (Did somebody
has already said this. If no , please copyright the saying on my name.). Irrfan Khan could acheive that in
the role of Arun , the person with a good heart working for a bad guy , falling for wrong girl who in the
end become the right one.

When his lady love Priti (Chitrangad Singh) says she didn't know that he is in love with her and he says
' So what did you think , I was jogging around you all this time'. This is the dialogue any guy in love will
tell when informed by the girl he loves that she didn't know it .

(A fundamental lesson into way of thinking. Most of the guys think that girls have sixth sense of knowing
who is in love with them. And most of the girls expect guys to profess their love like teary-eyed characters
that SRK used to do in 90's. And both are wrong in their way of thinking . And result being ,in real life
most of the guys do not get the girls they love and most of the girls do not get the guys they deserve)

Or the way he says to her , 'What do you know by doing nothing what you have done to me' . ( I don't remember the exact words)

Or says to his boss mehta ( Saurabh Shulka) , ' I will send the invitation card for marriage , please don't
come.

Kuldeep (Arunoday Singh) : First time I watched this guy. But one of my friend was telling Arunoday singh was there in movie Aisha. His character is also like arun , a man honest in love but not in honest job. He was lucky to have a lot of kiss scenes and he performed well , so it seems

Priti (Chitrangada Singh ) : The girl with the guitar and singing 'ye saali zindegi' . After watching her first
time in Hazarhon Khawishen Aishi , my heart soared like a kite and get cut when I learnt that she is married.
Nevertheless she was good in the role. However I expected her to be great. But may be , the role was not enough to give her the opportunity for that.

Shanti ( Aditi Rao Hydiri ) : After coming to my room from movie hall and heavy dinner , first thing
I did to download wallpaper of her and put it in my desktop background. And this blog in a sense
is a  declaration to let my friends know that I am thinking to include her in my list. So guys back off.

All night long till I slept ( I don't remember whether I saw her in dreams or not) I was thinking where
I have seen her before.  She looked so familiar that I was thinking to have seen her in real life.  But
unfortunately in the morning paper movie review it says that she was there in 'Delhi 6' . Yeah , then
I remember and my hope sanked down. But not bad Ms (is she a Ms or Mrs , I have to check. I
don't want another chitrangada episode) Aditi , from a homely girl in Delhi 6 to potraying sexy kissing
scenes in this movie , not bad. Who's complaining.

But in one scene , when kuldeep (her husband) confronts her in the house of a stranger. And she clarifies
that she had come to sell pickles only . But the way she wore that saree did not indicate that she had gone
to sell pickles. And where are those pickles which she had to sell.

May be I did miss the conversation or a scene. Or as the next scene was a steamy one , director may
have told her to wear the same saree and shoot the scenes in one go.

Apart from the above characters , Shushant Singh in a role of inspector , Saurabh Shukla in role of
Mehta (boss of arun) , Yashpal Sharama (boss of Kuldeep)  were good in their characters.

A lot of twist and turns in the movie : turns of events , twist in characters , even the director managed to
end the movie in a funny note with twisting trajectory of bullets.

Over and all a good movie to watch , music to listen . Though it had a typical bollywood movie ending
with good getting all the goodies ,  Kudos to director Sudhir Mishra for not trying hard to highlight it.
He just showed what life is it is , like the song in the movie goes 'zindagi pe tera mera, kis ka na zor hai
hum sochte hai kuch ,yeh sochti kuch aur hai Yeh zindagi, yeh saali zindagi'