SRK in a duel role...who'd a thought?

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

SRK (Shahrukh Khan) stars as Surinder (Suri) a big time nerd…just look at the pic! He is good friends with his teacher, who is at death’s door and his teachers daughter, Taani, is getting married, and once Suri gets a look at her, he falls in love.

The day of the wedding there is a terrible accident and Taani’s fiancé dies, and her father gets sent to the hospital. He sees that Taani is completely destroyed by the death and before he dies he wishes her to marry Suri. There is no love there (well, there is on Suri’s part, but no one knows that), but Taani agrees to marry Suri anyway.

Suri is a “geek” which now a days means a smart nice guy. He loves her, but she tells him that she can never love anyone again due to her loss of her fiancé and father at the same time. She spends the next few days alone at the house while Suri works. He treats her well, makes her breakfast and loves her, but cant tell her.

One day she decides on taking some dancing lessons so Suri forks over the cash and she goes. He decides he wants to watch her, but in disguise. He visits his friend who owns a salon and they make him over but accidentally shave his moustache, and he becomes Raj. A superstar kind of guy, who is overly cool, and really over the top!

What happens next is obvious, Raj and Taani end up being dance partners, and she ends up liking him.

The running theme throughout the movie is that “God is writing this love story”, so things are going well, the only problem is that Raj is really Suri and Suri is really a geek. Suri says (in a great line in the film) “I will be Raj to make her smile and laugh, but when she loves me I want her to love Suri.”

I wont give away the ending, only to say it ended the only way it could. I have to admit I really liked this movie. It was really well done and believable.

SRK was great as usual and the story was new (to me anyway) and I love his attitude, that she has to love me, the real me.

Most movies have their characters make compromises. Like I will change to be with you, but come on, that doesn’t happen. And it didn’t in this film.

4.5/5 – great film.

--J-KraKen--[>