Although she is engaged to her best friend, Meera connects with Samar because of his naked honesty and her ability to be herself when she’s around him.
As the two spend more and more time together, the unthinkable happens and they fall in love. As the only child to her parents, she enlists Samar’s help in teaching her to sing a Punjabi song at her father’s 50th birthday-to demonstrate to her father also that she can still very much connect to her traditions and primary language. She begins seeing Samar singing at street corners and takes an instant liking to him. For her, God is her best friend and the moral compass that navigates her through all of life’s impediments. Unlike Samar, Meera comes from a privileged background but her parents’ marriage break-up has somewhat scarred her. During one of his jobs, he encounters Meera gliding over the snow darting towards the church. It is later revealed that he is in the UK because his mother did not want him to join the Indian army back home like the rest of the men in his family. Samar finds himself in the United Kingdom (UK) struggling together with his roommate in a cramped one-bedroom flat and simultaneously holding down multiple jobs. Samar Anand is a care-free soul who believes in hard work and doing everything with a passion. These three siblings puppeteer the lives of Samar Anand (Shah Rukh Khan), Meera (Katrina Kaif) and Akira (Anushka Sharma). Like most of Yash Chopra’s films, destiny, blind faith and an unwavering belief in a higher power are essential elements and Jab Tak Hai Jaan is no exception. Rahman’s music for Jab Tak Hai Jaan fits in perfectly with what Yash Chopra wanted on screen. I firmly believe a Jatin Lalit, Pritam, Rajesh Roshan or even Shiv Hari would have been terribly mis-placed had they been contracted. I cannot comprehend anyone else except Rahman scoring the music here. I can however tell you that after watching Jab Tak Hai Jaan Yash Chopra knew exactly what he was doing. Both Yash Raj Films and Rahman came in for some scathing criticism when the film’s music released. Not many people understand Rahman’s music fully: his is a rare form of music-making that is only appreciated with time situated within the appropriate setting.
One integral example of this is his choice of AR Rahman to do the music.
Instead, he sticks to this old and trusted troubled love story theme but within a modern context. He could have easily placed this searing love story in an altogether anachronistic frame which could have hurt the film’s overall currency.
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What is also evident is that Yash Chopra-with his last film-has not committed that dastardly of all movie sins by refusing to keep in-step with the changed and changing world around him. The film is a mature love story relayed beautifully by his lead cast the striking landscapes its pulsating music and of course a well-thought out script. While Jab Tak Hai Jaan will probably be remembered more now for being Chopra’s last film, it is a movie that has plenty of other qualities to make it one of his best in a very decorated career. And Jab Tak Hai Jaan is the perfect conduit for the late Yash Chopra to say his final goodbyes to the movie world…for the final time. As much as we would like to mourn Chopra’s passing, we need to celebrate what this great man of Indian cinema has gifted the world. The strangest thing is that Chopra announced his retirement and said he would choose a quiet life once Jab Tak Hain Jaan wrapped up. Some would say how befitting for a man who gave his life to making millions of people around the world happy over a career spanning decades he was meant to pass on with his proverbial boots on as it were. He died before completing his last film Jab Tak Hai Jaan (until I have life in me/ until my last breath). Chopra died in a Mumbai hospital from complications relating to dengue fever. The legendary director turned 80 only a few days before. A few weeks back the film fraternity suffered one of its greatest losses-the untimely demise of one of its most revered sons, Yash Chopra.
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