Salaam Namaste - Movie Review

Let me tell you at the outset..this one is for the lovable rascals of today..so contemporary it is in its theme..that It would take some time for the elderly crowd to come to terms with the concept of Salaam Namaste

Realistic are the characters and cool is the outlook of the director that you never feel like watching a movie...but you are led to believe that this happens for a friend of yours in Australia..or United States..

Living-together is new for India, but will fast catchup here in Mother India as well, going by the pattern and craze for westernization...this will soon become the next hep thing...courtesy Salaam Namaste...as far as most of the public goes...this would be their first exposure to this concept...

But one should admit, the treatment has been decent and dignity personified..not just rosy and passionate. The current crop of hindi movies have been passionate...all about passion..bold but senseless at times... anyways that's not the case here..

Nik..aka Nikil Arora..is a chef-cum-architect, Ambar is a RJ-cum-Doctor in the making, as usual as the script goes, they are always at locker-horns...they have completely different perspectives of life, marriage, kids..but get attracted to each other at a point of time and decide to make a logical and rational decision to stay together and get to understand each other rather than calling themselves lovers...run around trees and do the also-rans stuff...good for them...;-) then comes the usuals and one fine morning, ambar is pregnant, and wants the baby much to the chagrin of nik, who is against this...and there begins a china wall...which grows bigger..all the way...through a script which makes sure that it grows stronger and stronger until the last few scenes...Nothing much to crave about as such in the story after the rift..but there is a lot to crave about in the realism and freshness of the treatment.

The climax comedy, I would say was unwarranted..the comedy pun intended there...was out of place, that could have been avoided..safely and still the movie would have been pleasant as it has been...

Little caemos as well, are not ruled out in this movie...Javed Jaffrey...wow...it was throughly enjoyable..harshad warsi's remarks... and abishek bachhan as the doctor...are all great...

->Saif Ali Khan as nik..is “cool as a cucumber” in NS Sidhu's very own terms..fits exactly..with his looks, fashion statements, accent..perfect..you could say...

->Preity Zinta as Ambar is intellectual and emotional all at once..good sketch of a character and given a pretty shape by preity..good work.

-> The locales in australia..are stupendous and absoultely eye-catchy..fantastic..the choice of houses..would make any indian crave for such houses here..:-)

Over all – a feel-good movie..with its share of emotions, rationales and sluggish parts..though the theme is slightly out of place, the movie will surely catch up riding on its stars..very good rendition from the lead stars...I would say...