After the tsunami of Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, ‘Rohit’ is back to blow your mind with Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage. From the name, the look, the feel, you might think this is a Sooraj Barjatya film. Or a Rakesh Roshan one! But SURPRISE! From the director of Raaz comes this very special film!
Now if you haven’t seen this film you should probably go jump off the cliff immediately. But that apart, this song might leave you dumbfounded and lost, and not just because of the way it is written. And so here’s a short recap! Well, behenji rich girl Sapna (Amisha) meets dude boy Rohit (duh, Hrithik!). Hrithik Christiano Ronaldo Roshan is a total stud who is the cool guy in college and his opening scene is a football match where he takes the ball single handedly from one side of the field to the other dodging every player with no assists wearing uncomfortably short shorts.
Also, he scores all the goals for his team and makes them win. And he ALSO defends. Bro, if this shit was on our Indian football team then aaj story hi kuch aur hoti. But sigh.
So it’s love at first sight for Rohit and love at first fight for Sapna. Also featuring the most epic falling in love expression ever seen in Indian cinema:
Girl’s father is a Gujju don control freak (Kiran Kumar) and the brother is deadly don son Vasooli Bhai from Golmaal.
Both are maniacs who don’t let her breathe, eat, sleep, or even go to her friend’s wedding without their permission. Sapna’s purpose in life is to get married to Rohit and so she goes through the movie all dressed for a wedding. Coz you always need to be prepared!
Sapna runs away with Rohit leaving Gujju Don and Vasooli Bhai going bat shit crazy baying for their blood! And guess where Rohit decided to hide his lady love! The boys’ hostel! Because who would think of looking for her there, right?
They sincerely believe they will be able to hide one dumb girl in that hostel full of boys but she ends up screaming and running across the hostel letting everyone know she has arrived *facepalm*.
Hostel boys are furious that Rohit is putting their lives in danger and even an emotional little dialogue from the hero does not move them. But then Sapna steps in with a tearful speech about her sad life and even sadder wardrobe due to which she had to borrow the hero’s clothes and the boys melt into puddley poo.
And so this song is the celebration song from the Hostel Boys to Behenji and Dude wishing them a Great Life…
And themselves too! Coz the Great Life extends to them: getting a free cook, laundry-girl, cleaner without the headache of a girlfriend or the wallet-pain of a maid! Which is exactly what the song starts with: them dumping all their dirty laundry and meal orders on her. But she comes cheap. A flying kissie from her bae gets her going!
They run around singing, dancing, playing basketball, tug-of-war and doing other miscellaneous stuff across the campus without the Principal noticing of course!
The music is by our very own Mr Rajesh Roshan and these pathbreaking lyrics are by Dev Kohli, the phenomenal man behind the lyrics of equally stunning songs such as Haila Haila from Koi Mil Gaya, Mr. Lova Lova from Ishq, Chocolate Lime Juice from Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and *drumroll* Yeh To Sach Hai Ki Bhagwan Hai from Hum Saath Saath Hain! Applause please!
The lyrics do not beat about the bush at all and come straight to the point:
‘—MALE—
I promise you a great life
I want you to be my wife
–CHORUS–
Life life
–MALE–
Wife wife
–CHORUS–
Life life
–MALE–
Wife wife’
This is something we more evolved folks call ‘unpretentious poetry’. You lay people will not understand. Now stop making fun of it. Hmph!
And because she is a nice, sweet, adorable girl, she makes it a point to put in a proper Acknowledgements right at the very beginning:
‘Thank you thank you thank you
Sandy, Madhu, Chintu
Thank you for great life’
There is some fabulous choreography on display in this song of course:
And yes, the Principal/Guard/Random Authority Figure only makes it a point to check the premises for five seconds at night. Because that is what happens at engineering colleges across the country. True story.
Rohit is brimming with love and finds the dumb behenji lady incredibly endearing. Obviously.
Then follows the greatest special effects sequence of Amisha Patel’s career:
Though why anyone would need to show a scene with random guys prancing around as special effects is a question that even God would apply a facepalm to.
And there is the stars, the night sky, the firecrackers, all CGI love!
And some more brilliant choreography:
Sapna chills with the back benchers slobbering all over Rohit’s hand, dances with all of them in the chemistry lab and the college grounds and the classroom and the hallways, AND NOBODY SEES! What college is this, pray!
The song ends with a group shot of all these lackeys with the happy couple. Yes, they gather the entire student body on the college premises and manage to click a group shot with a girl with no college faculty showing up and hauling them up
No moral speeches here. To those other unfortunate souls who had to sit through any part of this movie like me, wishing you a great life! Ok Tata!
Featuring
‘Kyaaunki meri shaakl Rohit se milti hai’
Kaho Na Pyar Hai Hangover
Shittiest College Administration/Security EVER
Most Predictable Rhymes EVER
… and…
Token Sardar Friend
P.S. One last dance to end! Ok you can kill me after this one!
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