C'est La Vie

If only life were really like a hindi movie.  If you haven’t watched this film yet…spoiler alert. 
Let’s see… this movie has some decent songs, nothing I’m going to put on my mp3 player but they were ok to watch, the characters were fresh and nice to watch and the story line was not too bad.  Deepika desperately needs a new make up artist, or a new dermatologist because for someone so beautiful her skin is so lacklustre and the complete opposite of luminescent that it detracts from her beauty.  Step one is she needs some blush.
The only thing I have against this movie is once again the “love conquers all” theme seeps into the movie and ruins everything.  It started off okay showing the love between Aaliya?  and Gelato?… or was it Gulati? or maybe his name was Abhay?  Sorry AALIYA AND ABHAY there you go. 
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: They met when they were kids, had a mutual obsession for hindi movies… she was not your typical girl (other than the love for SRK and obsession for hindi movies bit).  She wasn’t the kind of girl who fantasized about her dream wedding lets just put it that way.  She applied to go to school in Australia without telling her mom and boyfriend and then she told her bf Abhay she wanted a break and kicked it to Australia.  He got insecure and clingy, subsequently she got mad, he followed her there, she got even more mad and officially broke up with him.  He stayed and refused to let go (or to leave the house she was sharing with 2 other roommates)…finally she thought he had moved on, he realizes she has moved on, she tells him to get married etc he leaves to go back to India.  He plans his wedding, the date is set everyone’s ready to roll, then she realized she actually did love him and flew back to India to propose to him only to find out that SURPRISE, he figured she would come back all along and the wedding that was scheduled was actually for the two of them.  They get married and live happily ever after.
I thought everything was pretty legit other than the end.  Aaliya seemed like a lot of people I know.  Sometimes people end relationships that they never thought that they would.  It’s hard for the Abhay’s of the world to deal with that and they often don’t believe it and so I thought it was interesting how they actually reflected this in the move.  I mean, Abhay was delusional in the movie.  I understand how he feels though… I mean you make promises to love a person no matter what, and to never let the relationship fail.  So all of a sudden when your love wants to end the relationship you think…is this just a test?  Didn’t I make a promise to never let this relationship end?  Maybe Aaliya thinks she wants a break up and then if I actually move on and she realizes that she made a mistake later, I gave up too early!  Maybe I’m supposed to wait this one out.  I mean, she loves me how can she not?  People expect you to realize that the relationship is over and to move on but do you just love a person and stop when they claim they stopped loving you?  Is that what love is…reliant on the other persons reciprocation?  Of course not!  That’s why you have to stick it through to the end Abhay!… love this person till you die and never love anyone else!  Until one day you wake up and realize… that she left you.  Something changes inside you after a certain amount of time and you realize…nothing can ever be the same again.  She left you, she didn’t want to try to sort it out, she was just done.  Finito.  And then you get somewhat mad.  You DO NOT make a fake wedding and chop her name on the wedding card “knowing” that she would come running from Australia to profess her love.  THIS IS THE PART OF HINDI MOVIES I HATE!!  It’s just not realistic.  And then when she does show up and she says she wants him back, HE DOESN’T EVEN YELL AT HER!  I would be like UM HELLOOOOO you forgot about all of this when you said we were done?  It would hurt too much to take you back and I don’t want to get hurt again?  Bye bye?  But no of course, they get married and live happily ever after. 
Bah humbug.  I’m going to bed.  Goodnight.  NO WAIT ONE MORE THING….WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE DOES THIS SEND KIDS?  Be a romantic, never move on with your life, have faith that the person who very calmly tells you she’s done is actually just confused?  That’s so wrong!  Honestly I would much rather the movie have shown them moving on and getting married to other people.  Sure maybe they wouldn’t love that person as much as they loved each other but that’s life.  It’s a good thing I’m not a script writer huh?  Everyone would leave my movies like whoa I can’t believe it ended like that and then everyone would lose hope in the goodness of life.  Well you know what they say about hope?  It breeds eternal misery.  On that bright note I bid you adieu.