JAB WE MET (Review)

 Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) is a young industrialist who has a whole lot of personal and professional problems. His mother left his father for another man, his father passed away, the company which his father left behind is in the pits and the last straw comes in the form of his girlfriend getting married to someone else. Completely dejected and not knowing what to do, he enters a train on its way to Delhi.
 There he comes across Geet (Kareena Kapoor) the most talkative and annoying Punjabi girl he has ever met. Aditya exchanges a few words while Geet exchanges a whole lot of life history including her plans to elope with her boyfriend (Tarun Arora). Clearly, Aditya is not interested in speaking to this blab and when the train stops at a station prior to Geet’s destination, he gets off. Geet thinking that everything not being fine gets off to bring him back into the train. In the process, they both end up missing the train. Now, at Geet’s insistence Aditya has to somehow manage to get her home to Bhatinda. He does so in the next few days but not before Geet completely changes his outlook towards life.  
 

Director Imtiaz Ali displays the elegance in narration which was amply visible in his debut venture Socha Na Tha . But here, he evolves further and incorporates masala in just the perfect measure. Essentially, the film belongs to Shahid and Kareena who pitch in memorable performances and lend a whole new meaning to the boy-meets-girl story.
  The film belongs to Shahid and Kareena who pitch in memorable performances and lend a whole new meaning to the boy-meets-girl story. Add to this Pritam’s riveting music score with sizzling numbers like Mauja hi Mauja , juxtaposed against Mohit Chauhan’s soothing romantic ballad and you have a spunky new love story to moon over. To sum it up, Jab We Met is a very refreshing fare and one of the better films to come out in recent times.