Saturday, June 8, 2013

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - Kabir and Natasha get engaged in a freaky moment?!!!

yeah, sometimes.. freaky things happen in movies which change the course of the movie. Mostly though, such  freaky moments are either in an action scene or a comedy scene. For example, this brilliant "divine intervention" scene from Pulp fiction. Actually this movie is full of such freaky sequences..and put together in a non linear narrative.. one would have to see twice of make sense of things.. and sense it does make


Well, anyway Pulp fiction is not the subject of this post and will hopefully never feature on this blog :).
This post is about  how Kabir Dewan and Natasha get engaged in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD)

Two people get hitched in a freaky moment..and these are the two characters

- they are from the affluent section of the society
- qualified, independent, 'global indians', supposed to do things after thinking through

So the story teller wants us to believe that they get engaged because - of a 'freak' moment of misunderstanding where natasha takes it that kabir has got a ring for her on his mom's birthday and in the middle of the birthday celebration is proposing to her.. she assumes all this and does not once  try to confirm her assumptions before starting to jump up and down about the engagement... 
considering that this character is insecure and super fast at jumping to conclusions is also shown later in the movie when she assumes that Kabir is gallivanting on his trip with some strange female (laila). Natasha then  ends up being there stealthily on the trip to catch Kabir the thief and spoil the fun! So I guess, one would pass on this as her character trait and move on.. so lets move on.. but I have another problem with the scene and that is

Why did Kabir not tell natasha of his planned gift for his mom's birthday before the birthday party, didn't they meet, didnt they talk, SMS, whatsapp??
 hell these guys are shown so tech savvy, they even communicate through video chat while Kabir is on the road trip and plan his wedding suit on video chat.. .. So the story teller wants us to believe that Kabir had no way of sharing with Natasha what he plans to gift his Mom on her birthday before the birthday party..

and this leads to the 'accidental engagement' and that my dear reader becomes the  Kabir Dewan and Natasha's track in the movie .. or  should I say 1/3 of the movie

Couldnt find the video of this engagement scene after searching high and low on youtube

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