Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

The first Bollywood movie I ever tried to watch. After this, I'll never try again...

"Surinder" was OK, "Raj" was annoying. And Raj is the quite typical of the roles which SRK does - melodrama oozing out of the crack of his butt.

Another movie with just epitomizes SRK's over acting and drama. He is cliche when it comes to acting. The story is standard bollywood story of the heroine falling in love with the hero at the end of the movie.

This is not the best Bollywood movie to watch after a hiatus from the industry. I guess my rating alone is proof of that. Melodramatic, superficial, annoying, and embarrassingly mediocre in all of its efforts. This is definitely a waste of 2 and a half hours that could be much better spent doing many other things. Like....nothing at all, for example. Even if you're a Shahrukh fan, this is just him at his worst. Save your time (and patience).

I’m bewildered by the negative reviews, but I think they probably all share a certain level of cynicism. I’ve gotten more cynical since first watching this as well & it lost some of its appeal. But I look past it & suspend some disbelief & cultural biases because I think the core characters are beautiful. The title is “a match made by god” (a la “Serendipity”) but this only serves to account for heavyhanded deus ex machina. Suri wields deus ex machina like a lv 10 paladin.