Movie Review: Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani – A laugh riot!!

2009 November 7

Raj Kumar Santoshi has striked once more!!

The movie is all about the president of Happy Club, called Prem, played by Ranbir Kapoor. He is a happy-go-lucky chap whose prime motive is to make people happy!! The movie is about the love story of Prem and Jenny, an orphaned girl played by Katrina Kaif

Strenghts

  • The best part about the movie are its comedy scenes. After a long time, we have a movie that can boast of fresh and clean comedy!! It was missing from the Bollywood scene for a while! 
  • Excellent performances by Ranbir Kapoor and the rest of the cast. Ranbir is a revelation, If he played the role of a sensitive, useless guy in Wake up Sid with ease, he cruises through this one with perfect elan! His comic timing is so good, he can match up to some veteran comedians with surprising ease!!
  • Excellent music by Pritam. The songs are fresh and catch up with the audience. I remember people clapping in some songs :)  
  • Brilliant choreography. I specially loved the rocking steps of Prem ki Naiyya by Ahmed Khan
  • Crackling direction! Rajkumar Santoshi is a pro at comedy. He shud make more of these :)

Weakness

  • Comedy scenes are interspersed by emotional scenes, which can get too much to handle after a while… Slowly you realise that you are laughing on the emotional scenes as well!! :P

The last time I laughed so much in a movie was during Andaz Apna Apna, Hera Pheri or Chupke Chupke. I laughed so so hard, my stomach ached by the time the movie got over!! :lol:

I strongly recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good laugh :) :)

Happy laughing :) :) :)

35 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 November 7

    Oye Oye :)
    if it is like this….
    I am gonna watch it soon :D

  2. 2009 November 7

    booking tickets !!!!! on ur recommendation !!!! :D

    • 2009 November 8

      Hehehehhe Awesomeeeeeeee!! So, how did you find it? :)

  3. 2009 November 7

    OKAY!! Now, i HAVE to see this one!! :) :D Tnx Nova :)

  4. 2009 November 7
    Swaram permalink

    Oh wow! Thanks for the review … I wanna laugh till my stomach aches :)

  5. 2009 November 7
    trupti permalink

    yepe!!!!!i saw the movie its really awesme…full on tp…

  6. 2009 November 8

    Hey,I have been wanting to watch this movie ever since they started showing the promos. I like Ranbir Kapoor a lot. He has an amazing screen presence.

    Now after reading your review,I’m all the more eager to see it!
    Thanks,Nova for the review :)

    • 2009 November 9

      Absolutely! And along with that, he has an awesome comic timing!! :)

  7. 2009 November 8

    will watch it then:)

  8. 2009 November 9

    i soooo second that.. the film is hilarious! totally hilarious!!

  9. 2009 November 9

    I liked the movie :)

    Ranbir was awesome!!!

  10. 2009 November 9

    seriously last i laughed this much in Hera Pheri… had my cheeks aching laughing…

    • 2009 November 9

      :) :) :) And with such a clean comedy, its a movie u can watch with your family :)

  11. 2009 November 10

    well I didnt like the movie, I think music was good, but comedy was no way near to “andaz apna apna”, may be I had expectations set too high

    • 2009 November 10

      Ohhhh!! :( Well, yeah the emotional scenes in between are a bit of a mood-wrecker… but, in general the comedy scenes are awesome, nai? :) Ofc comparing it with AAA is a bit too much :)

  12. 2009 November 10

    Can’t compare it with ‘Andaz apna apna’ but it was fun. Ranbir Kapoor has acted well.

    • 2009 November 10

      AAA is a different league altogether! But, this is a definite winner :)

  13. 2009 November 10
    watch Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009) online permalink

    http://interflicks.net/apkgk/

  14. 2009 November 11
    Ankita bhatt permalink

    the movie is very good .ranbir and kat is occsome.i liked the all songs and i liked the movie also

  15. 2009 November 12

    I didn’t get ticket for this movie….the worst part was the fellow who were standing immediately next to me got the last ticket…..sigh
    seems ranbir is the new guy in B-town….. at least he is not trying to imitate khans
    between thanks for the review

    • 2009 November 13

      You are welcome Anish! Its a movie not worth missing :)

  16. 2009 November 13

    Wonderful!

    I have been wanting a review for this movie… and now I have got it. This weekend… it shall be this!

    PS: First time here from Apu’s blog…. lovely blog you have here…

    • 2009 November 13

      Thank you for your kinnd words, Aathira :)

      I must add that you have a lovely name. What does it mean?

  17. 2009 November 14

    Seriously??

    You liked this one? Understandable since you are a Ranbir fan…

    Yet, to take it’s name in the same breath with AAA, Hera Pheri, etc. is a crime lady :-)

    I thought the flick was a washout.

    All scenes reminded me of other comic classics. No originality or content here !

    But, it’s not surprising that the movie is running to full houses…we have hardly had good movies in the past year…so anything remotely decent is deemed brilliant …

  18. 2009 November 21

    Really??? people have trashed it!! Will watch it soon to make my own view :)

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