Cinematographer Ravi K Chandran gives every surface a sheen. Baar Baar Dekho is impeccably good-looking. The good thing about these movies is that when the story fails, you can focus on the styling. These production houses are the high priests of a sub-genre that I call posh people angst - basically, stories about affluent, attractive people. Read: Katrina Kaif on revenge and her hot BBD bodyīaar Baar Dekho has been jointly produced by Excel Entertainment and Dharma Productions. Even the most ardent Sid and Kat fans will find it difficult to stay interested. But the repetition in the narrative simply flattens out their efforts. Katrina also stretches herself by finding some depth and expression. To begin with, he has to convincingly play a man who is reluctant to marry Katrina Kaif - who, of course, looks smashing. It’s a tough load to carry and he works hard to make Jai’s struggle palpable. So Sidharth Malhotra is forced to keep the same dazed and confused expression on his face through the film. Jai just keeps waking up in different years and has no clue what has happened in the years that have gone by. On paper, this must have seemed like an ambitious, beguiling idea, especially for Hindi cinema. She also stretches herself by finding some depth and expression. He realises how empty his life will be if he continues to put his passion - Vedic mathematics - above all else. Like that man, Jai also becomes a loving husband and father by travelling back and forth in time. The 2013 British film, About Time, featured a time-travelling protagonist who learns to enjoy each day of what he calls his ‘extraordinary, ordinary life’. All working moms know this, but it takes Jai a hundred and forty-two minutes to figure it out. And a sagely professor of mathematics declares: “ Balance ke bagair koi equation perfect nahin hoti”. A wise pundit tells us: “ Badi baaton pe nahin, chhoti baaton pe dhyan do”. In case you miss them, the characters helpfully spell them out. The writers - Sri Rao, Anuvab Pal and Nitya herself - are imparting life lessons here.
Baar Baar Dekho is essentially the movie equivalent of a Hallmark card. He throroughly enjoys himself, so what if others do not.The problem is everything in between. But fat chance that Shammi Kapoor would bother about that. “baar baar dekho hazaar baar dekho”, he continues to sing about the lady ( who is she ?) and she continued to be embarrassed throughout. This song “baar baar dekho hazaar baar dekho” finds Shammi Kapoor hogging the limelight as if as a matter of right. He would go to a party and he would be the one shaking and dancing the most, and acting the most uninhibited, as if to compensate for the lack of movement of others and for the heroine’s inhibitions. Our hero Shammi Kapoor ofcourse would have no such worries. Even the heroine is not at ease, because the contents of the song are either praising her or cursing her, and in either case, she feels mightily embarrassed. Except hero, everyone else seems discomfited. What exactly do they do in the party ? If they are like the party goers in Bollywood songs, most of them just stand like statues when the hero is hogging the limelight, singing a song. There are people who like to go to party.