There are few reasons as to why the director/script-writer would end a movie in a way that is contrary to popular expectations. And there is only one reason why they would end a movie that is contrary to the movie itself. Stupidity.

Disclaimer: If you can explain the movie, and you think am wrong about it, please let me know in a civilized manner, this is not a forum.

The movie about getting second chance in life is always going to get an audience (especially people like me who often (like it or not) look back into the past). I believe that there are more people on this planet who look back and wish for a second chance rather than create a new one. But that’s digressing from the topic.

The guy: Randeep Hooda/ “Nikhil”

The girl/woman: Shahana Goswami

Director: Arjun Chandramohan Bali

Spoiler Alert : If you want to watch the movie, and don’t like reading about it, skip the next few paragraphs until it says “spoiler alert end”.

Movie starts off with the romance between the guy and the girl (slight background on how it all begins) and the usual stuff. Few minutes into the romance, you realize that the guy is the stereotypical career oriented guy who wants to make it big (with his BIG presentation that very day). He wants his future to be picture perfect, working hard today. Detached from his mom who remarries after his dad’s death, averse to the concept of another guy beside his mom, reluctant to commit and suffers from memory loss about every detail of his girl-friend’s life (again stereoT).

And the bindaas, ‘life-like-a-hobby’ (not my words) girl, who loves this guy, understands to some extent but is mildly pissed off with his attention to work (again stereotypical). She is shortly leaving for India hoping that he would come with her so that she can introduce HIM to her family, but doesn’t WANT ‘cos it’s an important time for him at work. That very day also happens to be their (2nd??) anniversary of their (live-in) relationship. And also a big day for the artistically inclined & talented girl (woman if you please) who has a BIG play that evening.

Without spoiling it much further, so the day begins badly for the guy, unfortunately the girl (again the woman) being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong reason and wrong (arguably) dialogues.

However, as things go from bad to worse we have the girl dying at the end of the day and our guy in desperation.

(Note to self, next time avoid the whole story)

What happens next is the crux of the story. Luckily for our bloke, he wakes up the next day exactly at the same place and TIME as yesterday (which means, he is back to the morning of the fateful day). At first he thinks it’s a dream but then as time goes he connects with the previous day’s happenings to that day. Inspired and educated about life, love and the need for doing things and living in that moment (applies to me) by a Taxi driver (Kulbushan Kharbanda- after a long time) he sets out doing everything right in order to please his girl and thus giving her the JOY of her life that day.

After everything done fair and wooey (copyright for the word reserved), he makes the one decision that he didn’t make it the first time around and ……he dies.

Spoiler alert end

Seriously. OK two hoots for the spoiler alerts. STOP READING if you don’t want to know the end.

Seriously, (again) if both of them die 2nd time around, it makes sense (in that he was supposed to die first time too but didn’t make a decision).

If she had died again, it makes sense that he could at least give her the JOY of her life that she so (allegedly) deserved.

Or, in the worst case scenario, if both of them survived, contrary to every known movie rule (not of bollywood). But killing the guy alone??? What kind of wickedness is it? What kind of justice is it? What kind of twist is it?

Oh unless, you refer to the last few lines he says to her about that being the greatest day of his life and thanks her for making it meaningful and opening his eyes and other stuff like that…

Anyway, it’s a normal movie with a creepy ending. I just wished they provided subtitles for the punjabi conversation between the guy and the taxi driver.

On the other hand, Welcome to Sajjanpur is a decent watch. Good characters and decent storyline.

And if you ever want to take my advice seriously, start with this:

DON’T EVEN THINK OF WATCHING DRONA. Half hour into it, I lost everything and gained sleep. Priyanka Chopra was HORRID.

I wonder if I can sleep now, the movie’s ending gonna haunt me for the night.

 

FLASH FLASH: News just in, apparently this movie was a frame-to-frame rip-off of If only, which I believe I might have watched once before (may be not, my memory fails, I have no memory of this story)

Too tired to check the post for mistakes. Please let me know, if any… yawwwwwnnnnnnnn.