Student of
the Year +++ Celebrating old Friendship with cherries +++
Theatre Release:
19 Oct 2012
Direction: Karan
Johar
Label: Dharma
Productions | Red Chillies Entertainment
Genre: Drama
Viewers
Group: 13+ (U/A)
The Critique
Lab Score Board
AVA Score:
7.56 (Max 10)
AVA Medal
Honor™© : Silver
Recommendation
Level : Moderate
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School Life
is incomparable and unmatched; Friends earned there are forever and moments
lived there are unforgettable. SOTY by Karan Johor successfully tries to cover
the essence of friendship during school days thou in an environment and
grandeur which practically seems impractical for a high school thou with the
urbanization and increasing per capita
Income one cannot the ignore the
possibility of the same at least in metro cities.
SOTY has
nothing new as far as the plot of the story goes. This time the director has
cleverly twisted his own first story of “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”. From one boy two
girls’ story the story has been transformed into one girl two boys’ story with
the background of High school rather college with a competition as centre stage
rather than basketball game last time.
SOTY is a
story of Richie Rich Rohan Nanda and his girlfriend Shanaya studying (rather
enjoying) in St.T (Saint Teresa). Rohan Nanda is the beat of the school and so
are the girls. One fine morning Abhimanyu entered as a super stud to challenge
Rohan Nanda existing charm and his girlfriend too. Abhimnayu is very ambitious
and very clear about what he requires from life and how, thou Rohan despite a
rich brat cool dude image got a nice heart and respect for friendship. Shayana
as a usual is suffering with girl’s age-old ‘whom shall I marry ‘and ‘whom
shall I love’ disease. In due course of time Rohan and Abhimanyu become great
buddies till their Dean Yoginder Vasisht announced the competition for ‘Student
of the Year’.
Karan Johar
aka K.JO knows the punch of entertainment and he got his own style of telling
stories. One would agree that he brought designer clothes and grandeur film
style in contemporary Hindi movie industry. And definitely he was the one who made the term
‘sex’ generic which used be censored earlier till he made ‘Daadi’ sexy in KKHH
and from there everything from Roti to Subji became sexy in daily conversation.
K Jo this
time with SOTY again touch a topic which is very close to his heart, Friends
and Family. Despite there is no novelty in the Plot one cannot escape from the
charm of his film making. You will enjoy watching all those wittier
conversation within friends and their families. It seems obvious the K Jo has
been a good observant in his life as far as people are concerned. The
competition is the center stage of the plot and K JO has fully justified and
made the same entertaining right from the football match, treasure hunt, couple
dance and final triathlon.
Performances
are a big highlight of the movie, all three debuts Varun Dhawan ,Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt has performed
great their assigned roles. Rishi Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor all did
a great Job. Special Mention for Kayoze Irani as Soda for the last scene where
he put out his frustration on dean
Cinematography by Ayananka Bose is notable.
Music is
peppy and in accordance with youth taste but I wish if lyricist has put some
thought over Hindi language. I’m not able to understand what he meant by ‘Ishq
wala Love’. It’s petty that we have established Hindi film industry in a non Hindi
speaking state and we take our national language for guaranteed the way we
want.
SOTY is overall entertaining and to the core celebrates
the spirit of friendship. If teen entertainment is your criteria, Student for
the year is for you!
Rgds
AvA
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This movie has nothing to do with Kuch Kuch Hota hai. Critic is dumbass
ReplyDeletedid you seen the movie?
DeleteNonSense Movie.
ReplyDeleteCritic is a f***** up moron.
Bullshit writer.
p.s. seen the movie.
blows tits
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