Dil Se.. Reviews

This movie reaaally didn't work for me. I was all excited--SRK, and I've heard lots of good things about it, etc.

But I found that it really fell flat. The main girl...heroine of the movie...was a suicide bomber. I understand that the movie was set in a rather troubled part of India, but I believe whenever you make the good guy a bad guy (or the bad guy a good guy), you have to really make sure you make him/her likable. This just wasn't the case in this movie. The girl was cold, harsh, downright rude to the sweet, innocent guy, and she even told him she was just using him.

Yet he kept following her, and following, and following. What made it worse for me, as a viewer, was that SRK's character was engaged to what seemed like a much much better girl. Preity Zinta's character was animated, likable, and just sort of frank and honest. Oh yeah, and she wasn't a suicide bomber. And yet, SRK's character payed no attention whatsoever to her.

SPOILERS: At the end of the movie, you see the main girl get into her bomb suit...as she's walking to the place where she's going to try to blow up...someone or another SRK's character comes running after her. He tries to get her to tell him, just once, that she loves him. She does, they hug each other. And they both blow up. I just...sort of sat there and was like "um, yeah"

/Spoilers: The theme of this movie was pretty similar to Rang De Basanti. RDB didn't quite work for me either, but I felt like it was really *close* to working. That maybe if I had been born in India, or grown up with a bit more Indian culture, I would have appreciated this movie more, but that I couldn't quite relate. But, it was almost there. Dil Se just wasn't.