Jab harry met sejal review a big disappointment for shah rukh khan fans

Jab Harry Met Sejal review: A big disappointment for Shah Rukh Khan fans

Jab Harry Met Sejal review: A big disappointment for Shah Rukh Khan fans .

Jab Harry Met Sejal review: A lengthy, baggy and pointless love story

Latest News Film: Jab Harry Met Sejal; Director: Imtiaz Ali; Cast: Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma, Rating: **1/2 If the flop-ridden Hindi film industry had its hopes pinned on the new Shah Rukh Khan starrer for salvation, then it's time to unpin those hopes.

Imtiaz Ali's eagerly awaited "Jab Harry Met Sejal" is a lengthy, lumbering, baggy and pointless love story. As lengthy and lumbering as his earlier "Tamasha" where two grown-up individuals behaved like a bratty unpleasant couple on a reality show pretending to be people they were not.

Just imagine if Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone met again in an exotic land and decided to play....ummm... a cranky closet-misogynist tourist guide and a fast-talking vacuous but charming Gujarati tourist.

Fun, no?

Well, no. Not really. Shah Rukh's Harry, with his unabashed cheesiness and 'cheapness', plays his part with an arrogant aplomb that seems borrowed from his superstar persona of Aryan Khanna in Maneesh Sharma's "Fan". Here is a man who will do what he wants, say what he wishes and apply any logic no matter how politically indecorous, to prove his point.

And we are meant to listen in, because... well, it is Shah Rukh Khan. Anushka Sharma, showing an impressive ability to stay calm and still while her co-star lets off spleen all over the place, does a good of job trying to make some sense of her co-star's tantrums. Frankly, Sejal has more patience than we do.

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