Salaam Namaste Movie Review Salaam Namaste
Director - Siddharth Anand
Star Cast -
Saif Khan...... Nikhil Arora (Nick)
Preity Zinta...... Ambar Malhotra
Arshad Warsi
Tania Zaetta
Javed Jaffrey
Jugal Hansraj
Kunal Vijaykar
Kavita Kapoor
Abhishek Bachchan...... special appearanceAmbar the RJ  Salaam Namaste is a movie reflecting the different highs, lows trials and tribulations of a live-in relationship. Preity Zinta as Amber (pronounced ‘humburrrrrrr’ by her thickly sound-Indian accented boss) is a radio jockey while the debonair Saif Ali khan is a gourmet chef who hates being called by his real name Nikhil Arora’ n responds to the shorter ‘Nick’. Both look really ravishing n Preity’s lost oodles of weight!
As expected, the movie has a very urban, young and happening look and is set in Melbourne, Australia replete with beaches, swimming costumes and a bevy of phirang , gori babes ready to shed off their clothes without a moment’s notice!
Preity and Saif meet at a wedding , hosted on a beautiful beach and they realize they have a thing for each other. At the end of this wedding their friends (Cathy played by AXN’s ‘who dares wins’ hostess Tania Zaetta and Ron-the ever lovable Arshad Warsi) also fall in love and end up marrying ! Preity and Saif realize that they wouldn’t want to miss their shot at love but neither of them is prepared for marriage, so Saif convinces Preity for a live-in relationship. They co-rent a wonderful bungalow from a really eccentric character played to the hilt by Javed Jaffery with his blond bimbette gf who never seems to understand what he says! Javed and Ms.Bimbette provide the comic relief (he, with his cowboy look and funny English with surplus ‘the’s and she, with her totally lost ‘sorry?’)
Love in the nick of time  So all is quite hunky dory for our very much in love Nick and Amber till one fateful morning when she realizes that she is pregnant!!(‘inspite of protection!!,’ she gasps) Nick develops cold feet and wants the child aborted while Amber, hurt by his lack of commitment and total insensitivity to the issue, decides to keep the child and raise it on her own. Hence there is a big rift and they decide to separate but unfortunately for them both have invested all their money into renting their dream house for a year and have to spend 8 more months together. The second half of the movie shows a very pregnant and frustrated amber managing work n studies, fighting cravings for Ben n Jerry’s Belgian dark chocolate ice-cream , fighting, crying ,puking into Nick’s Chef cap and breaking out into a moonwalk like she suddenly forgot she was pregnant! Towards the end Saif realizes his mistake and Preity gives birth to twins amidst a lot of craziness (Abhishek Bachchan plays a totally absent minded obstetrician) and all’s well that ends well. All in all, a movie that tries to explore the relatively new concept of live-in relationships, unconventional professions like RJs n chefs…….but still ends up reminding us of the age-old pre-marital sex and subsequent unwanted pregnancy of movies of yore….so has Hindi cinema really taken a step forward with this film?) |
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actually the movie was ok.. infact pretty good.. but the moonwalk during the pregnancy was a stand-out comedy dance... my friends started laughing.. but the story is slightly different than the stereotype hindi movies.. personally i think.. saif n preity share a gr8 on-screen chemistry... n e way i rate this movie 3 out of 5..actually 3 and a half..it isnt a bad movie.. it looks more like HUMTUM sort.. but not completely...
some concepts r really weird like preity is an RJ, in aus.
but who listens to Hindi radio out there?!!! moreover radio listeners help saif finding out where preity is...sounds stupid!!... gr8 music, presentation, humour by javed n arshad warsi overall... one time movie n
worth ur money n time
the whole movie was like a long guided tour of Australia.
the humor in the movie can only be described as insipid and inane. it was no wonder that all the auntyjees cringed in their seats when saif and arshad cracked jokes that are better advised to be contained within college campus premises.
The climax could not have been cornier with te director runing his imagination wild. he made an absolute joke of the poor pregnant women. the most shocking scene was when arshad peeps into his wife's (tanya) drape. absolutely tasteless.
I guess this movie will surely be a hit, but am not one to vouch for it.
And guys come-on instead of finding problems try to enjoy a good and different concept. Don’t crib like typical hypocrite Indians.
U have lot of money and dont know how to spend it....Go and throw it into the river...but dont buy a ticket for SALAM NAMASTE....
I really dont know what concept is this movie conveying but reading the comments written by a lot of brothers in funonthenet i simply cant believe that INDIA is full of Useless people throwing time and money for a CRAP .... Well I dont know why Junior B is in the movie but anyone appreciating his acting for sure is a DUMB ASS who has slept all thru the movie :P....
Finally i would like to tell...Although we have ruined our time and money it would be great if we can save few of ours friends money and time by letting them know about this SICK MOVIE...And for all those who hate Typical Hypocrite culture...Imagine ur wife having a live in relation with someone and then marrying u...MANN....IT SUCKS !!!!
well lets jus say its a very nicely packaged movie with a modernistic flavour but lackin soul...
And one more thing buddy. Please mind the language u use. Cos there r people here who can use those small little lovely words but that doesn't seem to be decent.
u didn't like the movie that’s ur view. And u gave it earlier. i liked this movie, its my view and i gave it to all. Now please let them decide what they have to. I think we all are that mature that we can think of what’s good and what’s bad. I’m sorry if I hurt u newhere that was not my intention. And for my wife to be in a relationship before being my wife, then I’ll say that’s her past and I don’t live in past cos I have a past too.
Warm Regards and Best wishes.
No hard feelings mite.
I think its worth watching by everybody particularly the youth. Lets know how to handle it when these situation comoes across in our lives.
Shiva
Would like to apologise to abhishek since he misunderstood my words...It was never directed to ur view at all...i can say all dat...But if i have hurt u...Extremely SORRY for that....Next will use better words...
yeah i knw this is soundin tooo philosophical but this is LIFE! adapt 2 it!.. u have to face these people in life.. n by the way if u go n tell this to some one who is livin with a girl/guy i guess u will get punched for it!.. lol.. we do need such movies to show us the rite path!.... bye!
boss, u shud have made this movie later. nows certainly not the time.
ps. u think this movie is great - good for u. u shud c a shrink. not only does th movie not have a decent script. its technically extremely poor.
acting? saif is a joke of an actor. I rewatched HUM-TUM recently nad tried to locate saif's (national-award) brilliance. didnt find any. the movie as a whole was good and well packaged and so did well.
BTW, u think live-in relationships are so in? wots new?
THESE IS 4 ALL OF US: i have seen the movie n i have liked it. u have seen the movie n mayb u didnt like it as much i did cuz Indians havent started to accept this kind of a society. n i guess its agreed tht this type of relationships arent acceptable in our so called modern soceity n atleast most of them arent gettin into this.. but the opinions about the movie differs from person to person.. u cant stop n e one from liking it.. your opinion is yours not n e one elses... so KINDLY stop criticising others comments? Thnks a lot!
wll i dint still understood tht was she carrying a football or volleyball or both. the movie shld b named salaam twins or salaam smooches instead of salaam namaste.
VJ
the movie is a big shit.
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