Adi Chopra, Come Let’s Fall in LOVE, and Not Be ‘Befikre’ About It
We believe in love and would still wait for the person we love, to palat. Kya kar lega?
In 1995, love was innocent as... “Agar yeh tujhe pyar karti hai toh yeh palat ke dekhegi ... palat ... palat!”
Fast-forward to 2016, love is completely squeezed out and turned into a sex object and recycled to “Palatane ka wait toh 90s mein karte teh log... I was just checking out his ass.”
Gosh, I so miss the 90s.
The king of romance Aditya Chopra has come a long way from sarson ke khet in Punjab to the city of love aka Paris. But the man who made us fall in love with Raj and Rahul has now somewhat ruined our innocence, corrupted our ‘Mohabbatein’. Not that we were pure and pious adults but still...
Aditya Chopra’s Befikre does look like a beautiful film that has Ranveer Singh with his sexy body moves that has us all hot and bothered and ‘plastic doll’ Vaani Kapoor, who leaves us confused with her accent and looks. And we were totally ‘Befikre’ when it came to the ‘beautification’ of the film. Bhai YRF hai, whose benchmark is nothing less than classy chiffon saris blowing in the snow clad Swiss Alps.
What has bewildered us is that Aditya Chopra, who has donned the director’s hat after eight years (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi released in 2008) has repackaged every other (including the in-house, one of the most painful film, Neel ‘N’ Nikki ) cheesy romcom into one and placed a YRF stamp on it.
Now if Aditya Chopra has started doing this then we are no one to judge the likes of Pahlaj Nihalani and Madhur Bhandarkar.
What happened to you, Aditya Chopra? Not only did you try to cash in on your own film and gave creativity a bum pe laat but you also redefined love and relationships.
The YRF films are all about love – waiting for love to happen (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi), Keeping your love alive (Mohabbatein), travel saat samunder paar to get your love (DDLJ), sacrifice for your love (Veer-Zaara). You get the point, right. Love-ly!
Then why would you suddenly make ‘Love’– a forbidden fruit, which once bitten will cause destruction and take all the masti out of your life? This isn’t the love we were fed on by the great Yash Raj Chopra or even you.
You made the same mistake called Neal ‘N’ Nikki on December 9, 2005 and it seems you are doing it again 11 years later on the same date. Coincidence or stupidity?
You know what Aditya Chopra, we, Generation XYZ..., are tired of being stereotyped as a narcissistic lot, who are living a superficial life when it comes to love and relationships and are living on a pure alcohol diet. Sorry man, but you gotta stop typecasting millennials like that.
Guess what? We believe in love and would still wait for the person we love, to palat (a joy that cannot be explained) and ‘befikre’ is the last thing we are when it comes to matters of the heart.
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