Directed by Baljit Singh Deo
Starring : Puneet Issar, Harbhajan Mann, Tulip Joshi, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Sunita Dhir
Release date(s) : 20 February 2009
Country : India
Language : Punjabi
"FORTUNATE ARE those who are able to live the rest of their life with whom they first fall in love with."
Well, this is what the title of this Punjabi movie means. And of course this is what happens in this rona dhona (kerchief bhigona) love story. Released on February 20, the movie continues to do roaring business. It is a huge hit in the UK, USA and Canada and at home.
Now-a-days, you should never ask for the story. For it is the same ghisela pitela stuff. It is the treatment and the acting that raise the level of the movie. In the case of Jag Jeondeyan De Mele (JJDM) the criteria remains the same.
The movie is similar to Anil Kapoor – Shridevi starrer Lamhe (1991). If you have seen Lamhe, you have seen this. Well, not quite so as there are a few differences here. But what matters is that it is a love story. They make viewers empathise with the lovers and their problematic situation and weep bucket load of tears. (Well, my eyes did well up in some scenes.)
Coming to the movie proper, JJDM has been shot in BC, Canada. The benefit of that is the cinematography of exotic locales. Abhijot (Harbhajan) and Mitro (Tulip) are childhood friends. Their friendship is looked-down upon as the hero is from a rich family while the heroine is poor.
They grow up only to be separated. Mitro consumes poison and dies when she comes to know she is to be married to someone else. Before dying she promises Abhijot they will meet again. To overcome his grief, he migrates to Canada and starts a new life. There he meets Ekam (Tulip in a double role), who is blind. They both fall in love.
He gets her eyes operated upon. She again sees the world. And then she finds her fiancé has returned. What will she do now? Will she live happily ever after with Abhijot, whom she loves dearly? That forms the rest of the movie.
Tulip has come up with a marvelous performance. She rises to the occasion and looks absolutely lovelorn. That is the problem with the love stories. They make viewer get involved and cry. I was thanking the darkness of the theatre and my tissues. I hate tears and love laughing. But like I said, blame it on the love stories.
Harbhajan must take some crash course in acting. Being in front of the camera is not enough. You need to perform. And to say, as a singer he has done countless stage shows. Frankly, he must do something about his acting skills.
Both Harbhajan and Tulip are not exactly teenagers or in their twenties but the film has turned out well and tugs at our heart strings. Indians are sentimental to the core. Emotions and feelings count with them big time. And the desis abroad (NRIs) seeing these movies feel closer to their roots.
Harbhajan Mann (43) is a Punjabi singer and now actor too. He was born in BC, Canada. He started singing locally at an early age. As there is a growing community of Sikhs overseas, the desi crowd took to him like wildfire. In his case, popularity spread backwards – from Vancouver to Punjab. He has till date acted in six movies since 2002. Two of which are blockbuster hits, one being JJDM.
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