Wishing fellow Indians a happy Republic day! Just checked out the new version of Mile Sur Mera Tumhara today: 2 x 8 min videos… huh! And not that exciting! Check out the new ‘Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’: Part 1 | Part 2. Some immediate comments:
- All pure instrumental portions are fantastic: Rahman, Anousha Shankar, tabla, Sivamani, Jazz, …
- Great focus on renewable energy: Solar water heaters and aggregators in the background a couple of times
- S-E-L (Shankar-Eshan-Loy) are great towards the end of their part
- The old-age home (supposedly) & Kashmir parts are very sweet
- Old is Gold: Original music has been tampered too much. Preferred the older Punjabi & Bengali parts (Is Shaan saying send me ‘SMS’?)
- There seems to be no one besides movie stars in this…
- Amitabh Bachchan has been made to sound wierd; he should’ve only been asked to read out the lines
- A bit of over-acting from actors down-under
- No Value Add: The Lux couple, Sonu Nigam, Shahid, Ranbir (in pajamas), Karan Johar
- Salman, Deepika short of clothes
- First 14 mins were great, and then SRK arrives with his silly hand gestures 🙁 as if he’s going to jerk of the whole world by closing his fist 😉 Just compare it to Aamir’s part
- Thanks for paying homage to the military at the end
Notable comments from elsewhere:
- why to ruin the good memories with bad bollywood experimentation. It is like comparing SHOLAY with RGV KI AAG
- This “SUR” has become “BESUR” because of bollywood
- Seriously, half of the people in this video didn’t deserve to be there
