The film was about friendship and how the equation among friends change as they grow old. On August 10 this year, the film completed 20 years at the box office.
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For instance, I remember that it was around 6:33 PM on J– a rainy weekend in Gujarat – when I first laid my eyes on this well groomed, deeply relatable and severely virginal movie character. The fact is there’s a Subodh in all of us, even if we try to cover him up with existential Imtiaz Ali protagonists and timeless Bhansali declarations. And Hindi cinema, at least before this decade, depended so heavily on the inherent manliness of their heroes – even when they were losing and crying – that it became imperative to run down nerds and geeks in order to highlight the artificial complexities of good-looking love stories. It isn’t complimentary, and yet it is – because he remains an aspirational figure in a country whose urban-dwelling, intellectually limited men are becoming increasingly aware of cinema’s unrealistic standards. “Don’t be such a Subodh” is a regular figure of speech even today, especially while mocking a particular brand of blandness and security in a relationship desperate for new-age pace and adventure. Subodh, over time, became more than a character he became an adjective to address an entire breed of “stable” companions. These days, however, you can be sure that many such Subodhs laugh their way into marital bliss.ĪLSO READ – TOP 50 MEMORABLE BOLLYWOOD CHARACTERS: P.K. Pooja and Sameer, if you truly think of it, were misfits and would never have lasted. Good things often happen to such people, even if Subodh was eventually dumped by an embarrassed, but classically misguided, heroine. On another day, Subodh would be former wild-child Aditi’s ( Kalki Koechlin) fiancé, Taran (Kunaal Roy Kapoor), in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, the epitome of goofy decency who seems to have punched above his weight, but is consciously aware of the fact that he is interesting precisely because he isn’t.Īnd in another, he may have morphed into an older version: Surinder Sahni ( Shah Rukh Khan) in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, with an entire film pivoting around his own inferiority complex. Subodh is the “Sharma ji ka beta” our parents used to taunt us about he is so straight and so right that it’s impossible for lesser mortals to not parody him. It’s conflicted man-children like Sameer, and even Akash for that matter, who don’t quite make for ideal partners in the real world. He might have been a device for comic relief, but on his own, if freed from the shackles of a film’s supporting turn, Subodh is actually an extremely desirable Indian man – the kind who ends up with women that are keen to grow up, locate selflessness and escape vanity.ĪLSO READ – TOP 50 MEMORABLE BOLLYWOOD CHARACTERS: B OB BISWAS FROM KAHAANI Subodh cares for his girlfriend Pooja (Sonali Kulkarni) like a “time table,” hoping to express affection in the form of memory, clingy anniversary dates and noble intent. Subodh was in fact the nicest person in the film – a settled, sensitive “Momma’s Boy” employed by Akhtar as an extreme contradiction to dispel the middling temperament of the trifecta’s nice guy, Sameer ( Saif Ali Khan), in a more pronounced manner.
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