We Are Family

Last evening I sat through yet another two and a half hour tear jerker from the K-JO stable. We Are Family has a brilliant cast of the very talented Kajol, the reigning Bollywood Queen Kareena and Greek God Hunk & Stud, Arjun Rampal. The performances by all three and the three kids, leaves no doubt in our mind about their acting prowess, but if you have a 45 odd minute end which is sadder than sad, even Spielberg with all his brilliant special effects wouldn’t be able to save the film.

Based on the best selling novel and highly successful Bollywood flick “STEP MOM” this Bollywood flick is well made with shooting in exotic locale of New South Wales in Australia, except for the last 45 minutes. Till a certain point one gets totally in with the characters and can feel their pain and anxiety and frustrations and love and I guess all the emotions that K-Jo was trying to make us feel, till he probably felt he hadn’t made us feel enough and just dragged the tragic end till we just couldn’t take it anymore and that’s where he lost the plot. Had he not dragged the tragedy for so long, maybe I might have shed a tear or two.

So if you want to watch a sad poignant tale of love and loss, be forewarned that you’ll have to sit through some 45+ minutes of unnecessary sorrow and impending tragedy.

We watched teh Movie at Fame South City Mall on Screen 4. Gosh this Audi was huge and there were probably 6-8 of us in the entire hall. The screen seemed a mile away and reminded us of the good old days at New Empire and Globe which were huge.