'Rab Ne Bana Di Jori' reveals the missing love in marriage institution

By Chaudhary Sandeep Datta

Director Aditya Chopra's latest film Rab Ne Bana Di Jori is earning a ravishing response in admiration of the subject any portrayal of an ordinary man's life through cinema. The film has become a subject of curiosity for those who have heard a lot about it but failed to watch it till date.

People wish to know after all what is so special or different in this Shahrukh Khan and a newcomer Anushka Sharma starrer Bollywood flick?

The film reveals and enables the public to locate the missing link of love. The film showcases the hidden love and its unrecognized and unnoticed beauty in the institution of marriage.

It shows the circumstances in which the true meaning of bonding and sense of belongingness comes out in the open and mesmerizes the misguided or fickle minded in a relation. It shows the circumstances in which a true man is noticed in real life.

Like in the film, the way Shahrukh Khan, playing Surinder "Suri" Sahni , a bank employee by profession, opts to get into a relation to enable his professor lying on death bed to give him the ecstasy of marrying off his daughter before he dies. He promises to his professor to take care for his daughter who has just lost her fiancé on the wedding day in a tragic accident.

The girl Tani Gupta played by the newcomer Anushka Sharma, an originally bubbly and lively girl, is shown to have suffered a major setback after learning about the tragic incident of losing her fiancé on the wedding day. But Tani agrees to marry Surinder "Suri" Sahni (Shahrukh Khan), an old and favourite student of her professor father, who is bed-ridden after suffering a cardiac arrest.

The film progresses and shows how the newly-wedded girl wants to take her time and mentally accept that she is now married to somebody else than the one she was mentally ready for. She is shown taking her time to relocate a reason to smile in life.

Shahrukh, playing the husband role, is a nice at heart guy who is prepared to wait and watch her accept herself in a new reality and his life. He is a man of ordinary looks and simple tastes. He is anything but a man a vivacious girl of city like Tani would dream of.

But Surinder (Shahrukh) is kind of a man who wants to be accepted with the way he has so far lived his life without any pomp and show. Though he is ready to change a bit if desired.

Surinder, however, is not the kind of a man who would force himself on his wife. Instead, he shows empathy towards his wife's psychological condition, which requires time to heal and adjust to new life after marriage.

He allows her to learn dance for a competition. But inside his heart Surinder is eager to watch her get back her cheer in life and spend time in her company as much as he can. For this, he naively goes for a makeover and turns a metrosexual man with the help of a stylist friend Bobby.

Tani comes across Raj, the Suriender in disguise, as a dance partner. The film moves on and the girl is shown getting drawn to this little different, nice at heart but a little flirt minded guy who thinks too high of him.

Raj shows interest in her and pretends suddenly vanishing from her life at dance venue. She misses his sudden absence and feels drawn towards him initially as a buddy or equally full of life friend she finds heard to live without. She admits to having feelings for him as the movie moves on.

The oft used "Hum hain rahi pyar ke, phir milenge, Chalte Chalte" by Shahrukh in the movie adds humour as an ingredient to almost every scene whenever it looks going dull for a moment. The movie has romance, comedy and a decent depiction of real life marriages in middle class families.

The film on one side shows the natural attraction for a new person in Tani's mind. But on the other side her commitment to her husband, who is waiting everyday for her melting of heart for him. She finds herself in dilemma and at once decides to run away with this newly found attractive guy who has just expressed his feelings for her. She turns forgetful to her always caring and understanding husband waiting for his turn of getting affection from her. And, she opts to follow her heart and not mind.

But Shahrukh, who is actually the husband in disguise of this metrosexual guy, is heart-broken to find his wife getting drawn to a personality who she could have located in the same person had she used brains or perhaps a heart which can sense. He is adamant to fascinate her to his original simple self.

The film shows an ordinary man's feelings and wishes. It shows the extent to which an ordinary husband like the protagonist Surinder could go to seek love from his life partner. It shows how any person could be an altogether different person but still he wishes to be accepted the way he has opted to live. In the film, Shahrukh dares to seek affection and a bit of friendly respect in a mutual relation without being forced to change to be somebody else and not the person he has chosen to be.

The film leaves behind the public with a message that pure love is not where you find yourself getting drawn to for the time being. In reality, it is there in the embrace and shadow of the person who has always been there for you.
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