Customer Reviews

Josh

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I expected Josh to be a cheesy rip-off of West Side Story.

Surprisingly, I was wrong. While it had many elements of West Side Story, it had many differences which I loved.

Shahrukh Khan really got to shine as a gang leader, and the songs and dance were really addictive (I still have 'Sailaru Sailare' stuck in my head, and 'Apun Bola' will never stop cracking me up).

If you love West Side Story, you will love Josh.

Director Mansoor Khan took the classic American musical West Side Story and turned it into a distinctly Indian tale. While West Side Story harkens back to America's past, Josh is relevant to contemporary India--with its many contentious ethnic and religious factions--and the film is therefore tinged with an immediacy and realism that's missing from the Broadway musical. Josh takes place in Goa, a city on the western coast of India that was colonized by the Portuguese, and many Goans are Catholic and have European names. The opposing gangs in this adaptation are Catholic and Hindu. Max (played by Shahrukh Khan) is the leader of the Catholic gang and Prakash (Sharad Kapoor) the leader of the Hindu gang. Prakash's sensitive brother Rahul (Chandrachur Singh), who wants nothing to do with the gang, falls in love with Max's sister Shirley (Aishwarya Rai). The Indian version interestingly diverges from the American original with a complicating subplot about a shameful family secret and the reverberations of colonialism. - The Bollywood Ticket: The American guide to Indian movies (Subscribe: The Bollywood Ticket)

This movie is funny, yet sometimes its sad like most hindi films.What makes this movie worth watching though is the fact that shahrukh khan is playing a role that he never plays. And i think all his fans will enjoy this different style of his acting.

My daughter and I are very much into Bollywood yet this one didnt hit the spot for us as it did another reviewer. Yes I have seen West Side story!
We actually found it a bit boring and not SRKs or Aishwaryas greatest roles. Rather low key and the dances didnt really grab us either.
The focus is on the tit-for-tat thuggery between 2 delinquent gangs (one headed by SRK who did a Fonzie impersonation but without his usual ability to bring something else out of the character)

The movie itself was fine, and if you're a fan of the stars in question, you'll want to check it out at some point.

Just be aware that this 162 minute movie and probably another hour of features is crammed onto a single-layer DVD-R. As such they had to compress the heck out of it, hence loss of quality. Not so noticeable on a standard-def 31" or smaller TV, but upscale to a big screen or HDTV, and it will bother you as it did me, and be a distraction from the performances, choreography, and cinematography. The worst parts of course are when there is a lot of motion on screen. So dance and action sequences are reduced to a pixellated mess. Well, you have to use your imagination for something, I guess.

Hopefully this will become available on more appropriate media.