Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Movie Review
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi marks the return of Aditya Chopra as a director after 8 years. His last movie Mohabbatein did well at the box-office, but it isDDLJ that continues to make news a decade after its release (its still running in a theatre in Mumbai). The expecations are quite high. Can Aditya Chopra recreate the magic of DDLJ, once again, with Shahrukh Khan in the lead?
Like last year’s Om Shanti Om, SRK has a new heroine, who again like Deepika Padukone, appears slightly taller than him.
Surprisingly unlike most Aditya Chopra movies, there are just 4 characters in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi; Surinder Sahni – Raj (both SRK), Taani (Anushka Sharma) and Bobby (Vinay Pathak). Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is a simple film about a couple whose marriage turns from a compromise to one made in heaven, by Rab himself!
Surinder Sahni is a simpleton working for Punjab Powers with a personality of a nerd. At the wedding of his college professors daughter he falls head over heals in love at first with the bride, the beautiful and very bubbly girl Taani. Just when the air of happiness and celebration reached its peak, the news about the accident of the groom and his entire family puts everything to lull. Surinder being the most favorite and admired student of the professor takes the responsibility of taking care of Taani and ties the nuptial bond with her. The rest of the story tells us about the extent to which Surinder goes to bring back the liveliness and happiness in the life of his lady love. It’s about how he wins his share of love compromising yet taking his stand for the man he is.
There are 2 major negatives and flaws in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
1) The length! Its more than 2 hours 40 mins long for a movie, which preferabbly should not have exceeded 2 hours. A bunch of unnecessary scenes, just to add masala, to an otherwise simple movie is disappointing. Also the movie is a stretch, with the pace being painfully slow at times.
2) The story! How can a newly married woman, who promises to be a good wife, fall in love with her dance partner? Okay, such things do happen when the marriage has no hold. But then the Raj – Taani love story is far from convincing and just doesnt strike the right chord. When a love story involves a married lady, who is cheating on her husband, the build up and the impact has to be tad bit more.
And how in the world does Taani not recognise Raj as her husband? With minimal changes in looks which included the removal of his moustache, specs and a change in hairstyle. The face and voice was the same, wasnt it?
The dialogues are great. Sets are adequate, simple and perfect for a movie like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The music is average. Haule Haule and the title track are good. Dance Pe Chance has been choreographed well. Rest are okay.
SRK’s character of Surinder Sahni is something most people would identify with. A simple common man, who goes through his daily routine and 9 to 5 working life. Acting wise, SRK has put in a lot of effort into this role and it shows. The mannerisms are funny, overall good performance.
Then comes the Raj makeover and SRK starts perfecting his hamming skills. The over the top character is strictly for SRK fans. Others could find it irritating.
Anushka Sharma is brilliant in a highly refreshing performance. Her expressions and dance stands out. A huge contender for the best debut award this year. Vinay Pathak is fine.
Overall, the story and the execution is a let down. The performances are decent and the movie sure has some light moments that would make you smile and laugh. At the all important box-office, the opening has been suprisingly not upto expectations for such a huge film. It should pick up over the weekend. Going past the Week 1 figures of either Singh Is King or Om Shanti Om seems highly unlikely.
Rating: 



Wait for DVD release or Television Premiere
Other notes: Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu and Preity Zinta.. all have special apperances in a song. The theatre was half full for the morning show and the audience reaction was decent. They seemed to love the scene wherein SRK keeps a rose along with his phone number, for his newly married wife.
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Aryan: (December 14, 2008 at 4:05 pm)
chetan: (December 14, 2008 at 5:47 pm)
Here is the review from another site
Total garbage.
Immune to our cries of mercy, oblivious to our pain and without a flicker of remorse, two Bollywood veterans unleash a 167-minute cruel nightmare in Rab Nahin Bana Di Yeh Bosudi oops Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi that boggles the mind.
What were the devil’s apprentices Aditya Chopra and Shahrukh Khan thinking, if they were thinking at all, when they made this piece of trash.
With no story worth speaking of save a newly married uxorious husband Surinder Sahni (Shahrukh Khan) making a monkey of himself to get his young wife Taani (Anushka Sharma) to love him, an inept screenplay that makes junk like Yuvvraaj and Drona look glorious, mediocre acting by Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma that make the grotesque Tamil film stars seem great and soporific dialogs that have less life in them than Manmohan Singh’s speeches, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi heaps more shame on Bollywood and fresh infamy on the fading Yash Raj Films banner.
And mucho disgrace on Shahrukh Khan and Aditya Chopra as well.
To ask the audience to believe that a woman can’t recognize her husband just because he’s removed his moustache and donned a flashy dress (and even after practising dancing with him for several days) is to suggest that Indian moviegoers need a brain-transplant.
Au contraire, it’s Yash Raj Films’ heir apparent – and the mooncalf behind Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – Aditya Chopra who desperately needs a brain transplant. After all, it’s this lobotomized bozo who is credited with the silly story, hopeless screenplay, banal dialogs and complete misdirection.
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Mon dieu, the sheer arrogance of Shahrukh Khan in deluding himself that the audience would lap up any tripe he throws their way has few parallels in Bollywood.
With his affected mannerisms (Thank you Ji. Mention not Ji. Taani Ji…), lifeless dancing and flat dialog delivery, Shahrukh Khan is an embarrassment to behold in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi whether as the mamooli aam aadmi Surinder with that forever constipated look or as his rustic alter ego Raj wearing that clownish mien.
Is this joker really the Bollywood Badshah?
Anushka Sharma is as mediocre an actress as Bollywood’s previous import from Bangalore Deepika Padukone, who made her debut in Om Shanti Om. Anushka resembles Sonam Kapoor (of Saawariya fame) from some angles but the buxom Sonam is a slightly better actress than this Bangalore boob.
In three crucial scenes (the initial confrontation with Surinder about not loving him, with Raj in the auto-shop and when Surinder tries the Sumo-wrestling nonsense), Anushka flounders and is all at sea. Send this schmuck back to Bengaluru with a one-way ticket.
Like the rest of the Rab Na Bana nonsense, music is drivel.
None of the songs are likely to stand the test of time. Both Haule Haule and Dance Pe Chance were so badly picturized that we have a hard time believing human were involved in their choreography.
Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte accomplished the seemingly impossible task of making the pretty babe Preity Zinta look like a weirdo.
A piece of trash like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi begs to be shown the middle finger.
To all Shahrukh Khan fans whose hearts are aflutter and flesh aquiver each time their hero’s movies are released, we say to waste either time or money on this rotten carcass would be a sin.
Instead of watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, you might as well commit harakiri and scoop your entrails out. That way, you’ll suffer lesser pain.
Kalyan: (December 14, 2008 at 6:00 pm)
Awesome review 10/10 *Claps*
Sriram: (December 14, 2008 at 6:38 pm)
hey guys, I am a tamil guy and I watched it in some theater in Vancouver (with subtitles) and I loved it. Trust me, if you want to take some time off from your busy schedule and have some enjoyable movie, Rab Ne … is the one.
Don’t worry about what anyone feels about this movie. It must be experienced by every one, and it truly is a gripping movie. I’m very picky about movies, and I liked this movie because of King Khan’s acting skills (although some useless critics would say he over-acted in certain scenes) and his flow of emotions.
He tactically plays with his wife in two different roles, just to understand her feelings about life, fun & happiness, her husband and her passions. He tries to impress her either ways (as suri and as raj) to know what she likes.
Its not an illicit love story between raj and taani, but of Raj trying to relieve himself off his original character and become a modern guy just to impress his wife and make her happy again. SRK has done it. Hats off to him
Sonia M: (December 14, 2008 at 8:56 pm)
I love the rivalry amongst the Bollywood superstars as I feel this would mean that we movie buffs are get to see better performances and some great moments created on celluloid. And, I honestly felt that SRK would do just that. He would have but I think the story and the execution failed him.
I felt that the first five minutes are too abrupt and pacy to understand the characters but once Surinder Sahni sings ‘haule haule..’ we are ready for a cinematic rollercaoster ride and it surely starts but then…..Aditya Chopra slips up..
We have seen ‘Raj’ so many times – it is Suridner Sahni who we would have loved to watch…
I would say an average film. SRK fans have to wait for something else if they want to defend him with sufficient armoury, this time Yashraj has got it all wrong – both the music and the plot.
Cheers!
Aman KhAN: (December 14, 2008 at 9:42 pm)
This is really one of the most accurate reviews of the movie. It is good in spells but terribly irritating at others. SRKs hamming is at its worst but like in om shanti om his hamming comedy is justified by the director through his character. Raj comes out as a complete idiot. WOnder why a sensible woman like that would fall for such a nonsensical and hollow character. SRKs huge female fan base will help the movie in the box office.
humaira ali: (December 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm)
fathiya ,thanks 4 telling me abt.NDTV`s interview,but we cant see that channel in PAKISTAN,ANYWAYS THANKS.But i have seen SRK`S interview at zoom,and dere he said only 1 line abt.all these rivalries,he said SAU SUNAR KI,EK LAUHAR KI.Means no matter how many hits da different actors hav given,he has just 1 movie this year and he wll rule da box office by this(INSHA ALLAH).SO dunt worry and i advice u to just ignore all dese KALYAN`S and linjo`s comments.Last thing wll u plz.GIVE ME YOUR ID ,I WLL LOVE 2 B IN CONTACT WTH.U,i m da die hard fan of SRK,AND I WILL B GLAD TO FIND ANOTHER ONE LIKE ME.BYE ,TC.
Mohammed: (December 14, 2008 at 10:16 pm)
Now srk is flop. Wha a bad, crap movie. Hey don´t waste your time to watch the movie, because it old method and the movie has not special.
This movie will be flop . Srk go to your home in Dubai. what are you doing in mumbai.
Puja: (December 14, 2008 at 11:04 pm)
Hi frnd see HOW R U
Fathiya: (December 14, 2008 at 11:49 pm)
Abinaya: Believe me.. that I’ve never in my life spent even 5 minutes to watch any of Rajnikanth’s movies coz the trailers of his movies say it.. some bad action movies!! And when he’s doing some horrible action movies which r similar to some cartoons.. then why do I hve to waste my time on such craps!! these movies never please me.. I know that these type of movies r not my type and none of us Bahraini ppl ever watch these kind of cinema.. we love bollywood movies and their best actors.. u might find a romantic movie as a crap.. it all depends on yr character.. if u r not so emotional, then ofcourse you’d never admire these emotional movies and u don’t want to watch them coz they touch yr feelings.. yr hearts.. I know lots of ppl who always run away from these movies as they don’t want to be so emotional.. do u know why? Coz some macho men think that men must be strong and never be emotional, they think that sensitive ppl r weak ppl, not men enough!, and they don’t know that these emotional movies make them (humen!)
The directors/producers show some best parts in their trailers.. now I saw Akshay is trying to cut/fight.. whatever a potato hanging in the air.. do u think that I will enjoy these kind of movies while some for sure they do?! I’ts a big production, and might be a good script.. I don’t know. .but the trailer of CC2C & Golmaal Returns.. these kind of cinema r not of my interest.. I love comedy but some quality.. like Dostana and Rabne.. and few years ago Masti & No Entry as some pure comedy movies.. but not Bagan Baag.. & Hera Pheri series, Welcome and some Salman Khan’s movies.. no.. sorry
Fathiya: (December 15, 2008 at 12:01 am)
DEAR ALL:
DON’T BELIEVE SOME LYERS HERE.. THEY WOULD SAY (ANY THING) TO RUIN SHAHRUKH AND HIS MOVIE.. ANY THING.. DON’T BELIEVE THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS.. WATCH IT IF YOU R REALLY PALNNING TO DO.. AND TURN YR BACK TO SOME BAD COMMENTS AND REVIEWS AS SOMETIMES EVEN SOME WEBSITES R PAID MONEY.. TO RUIN BEST MOVIES!!
Fathiya: (December 15, 2008 at 12:56 am)
Humaira: Thank u, and I would like to ask u a question: what’s the meaning of yr name? I’ve never heard this name before.
My e.mail address is: fabastaki@yahoo.com and if u wish, u can answer my question by an e.mail message to me.
Let’s enjoy Shahrukh’s movies.. and let others enjoy Rajnikant’s and Akshay’s movies.. different movies for different ppl.. am I right?
aslam: (December 15, 2008 at 2:10 am)
Hi friends. Just dropped by accident. I was amazed the way you people are fighting. I am a big fan of AAMIR KHAN. Yet I like SRK, Akki, Hritik and others also. Everone has their own style. As far as SRK is concern he is going Amitabh way. Remember how many movies Big B has done with Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehara. Most of them were blockbuster. Very few are them are fine ( like Zanzeer, Amar Akbar Anthony ) . But when it comes to great movies then people remember Hrishikesh da, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Same with SRK, he delivered many blockbuster with Choparas and Karan Johars. But as far as acting is concern there are very few like Swadesh, Chak De India. I havent seen RNBDJ yet I belive he has done good job, extraordinary I dont thinks so. To do extraordinary work he has to work outside Chopra camp ( remember Swadesh ). Now I come to AAMIR KHAN. He has his own limits. He is not tall, not agreat dancer, cant look macho ( i hope ghajini will do wonder ), yet he doesnt repeat himself. always play different role. Bib B has played Vijaj to death so is SRK playing Raj the lover boy ( or man ). it is a right time to do some creative work SRK, please wake up. @ fathiya, you are die hard fan of srk. I salute your spirit. Thanks and ALLAH HAFEEZ.
Sriram: (December 15, 2008 at 2:26 am)
Dai kalyan nathari.. Go to some tamil movie forums and comment and spread your anger among all ajith n vijay fans.. Dont spam here.
PPl dont listen to all those guys’ one line comments about SRK’s acting skills etc. These guys are not fit to comment a star like him. He has delivered his best in this film, and that is why everyone must watch this film.
I dont find anything wrong in watching in a dvd or at home locking up yourself behind etc etc. But its the thrill that you watch with your friends that makes you glued on to the seat in the theatre. We were making fun of the movie, pointing out scenes where it was like a blunder (or copy from other movies) , but the last moments of the movie are well scripted, and if you are with your gf, i’m sure a tear wud trickle down your cheeks.
No point wasting time, spreading ill comments about movies, especially if it is from a star studded team.
kohli: (December 15, 2008 at 7:10 am)
shahrukh and aditya chopra are already so rich if i spend money to watch their film they will become richer… what about me? will i become rich penniwise?so should i fill their pockets with money? should you all also fill their pockets?
yogu: (December 15, 2008 at 11:12 am)
yogu: I watched the Moview , I like to say Its is great Family entertainment after long Time.Superb Performance by SRK ,he Proves once again he is King Of Bollywood , Anushka also does well, and Vinay pathk was incredible in role.
Great Movie by Aditya chopra for whole family
Kalyan: (December 15, 2008 at 12:18 pm)
Fathiya: Rajnikanth movies are like cartoons?Do you even realise how big of a star he is he has a huge fan following EVEN GREATER THAN SRK,AMITABH,AKKI,HIS FILMS EVEN RUN IN JAPAN,HE IS GREaTER THAN ALL BOLLYWOOD HEROES and yeah rbdnj is an avg-below avg movie unless you are a die hard fan of srk don’t watch it,wait for a dvd or television premiere as the review suggessts.
puja: (December 15, 2008 at 3:01 pm)
Indore Barometer Weekend Rab Bana Di Jodi
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has recorded excellent figures over its first weekend at Indore multiplexes. The weekend figures for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi are the second biggest ever, just a bit lower than Singh Is Kinng. Below is a comparison with Golmaal Returns and Singh Is Kinng the other two biggest grossers over the first weekend in 2008. The figures are for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Weekend totals.
PVR
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi-2,39,700 2,86,900 3,01,400 8,28,000
Golmaal Returns-1,80,100 1,82,500 1,90,000 5,52,600
Singh Is Kinng-2,08,000 2,59,400 2,89,000 7,56,400
Inox
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi-1,72,500 2,36,000 3,67,400 7,75,900
Golmaal Returns-2,13,300 2,18,700 2,25,000 6,57,000
Singh Is Kinng-1,64,000 2,14,000 3,36,000 7,14,000
Adlabs
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi-1,81,400 2,04,000 2,84,500 6,69,900
Golmaal Returns-1,78,300 1,79,750 1,75,600 5,33,650
Singh Is Kinng-1,72,000 2,71,350 3,19,000 7,62,350
Velocity
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi-1,59,100 1,87,700 3,26,200 6,73,000
Golmaal Returns-2,44,000 1,97,700 1,72,300 6,14,000
Singh Is Kinng-1,54,000 2,15,800 3,64,700 7,34,500
Daily Totals
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi-7,52,700 9,14,600 12,79,500 29,46,800
Golmaal Returns-8,15,700 7,78,650 7,62,900 23,57,250
Singh Is Kinng-6,98,000 9,60,550 13,08,700 29,67,250
srk will be a new king.
girish: (December 15, 2008 at 3:51 pm)
Shahrukh sucks, movie is too lengthly and slow
Uzair: (December 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm)
akshay kumar i think is great entertainer..but its shahrukh i like da most!! akshay shahrukh n aamir all three r gud actors…everyone here is talkin abt rnbdj script having weak what abt script of akshayz movz those r more unrealistic…eg welcome n sing iz king!
aamir i think is great actor but his upcoming film looks copy hollywood film MEMNTO where man has a problem wid his short memory n hez in search of his wifez killer!





Fathiya i ws not talking abt his older/middle class look, its the ultra modern cool personality which is a prob…it was pathetic in OSO n i thnk he has repeated it here too…im not telling that he is not a good actor els he wudnt hav survived the 2000 debacle in the form of Hrithik…
A dialogue comes to my mind of the recent mega blockbuster “The Dark Knight”, “U die a Hero or live long enough to c urself being villlion”, its becoming very irritating with his ultra cool over acting, it was grt8 in KKHH get over it kil the character…
n to all, this movie was Aditya Chopra’s, to me he was never a good director, DDLJ just happened to him yes a good producer i agree….
n finally awards, i think this time none of the superstars r good/worthy contenders.