Whats new in JT... YJN

I do not recall any other Hindi movie which tackles positive illusions as a choice of life, the way its portrayed in Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. Its worth noticing because I think its a very pervasive aspect of every one's life but very rarely brought out in the open, except in extreme cases.

If you have already seen the movie, I am talking about the character of Meghna, Imraan's temporary girl friend. If you haven't, the girl is living in denial of the fact that her parents are actually quite at war with each other. Despite all that happens around her, she chooses to stick to her imaginary happy world where there is romance in everything, just like between her parents.

There are other characters in the movie who have other positive illusions like Ratna Pathak's and her denial of any form of violence in the world especially her son's life which also lead her to have illusions of her dead husband. Interestingly, characters which are most in touch with reality are negative in shade like Paresh Rawal (he knew Imraan had a violent streak to him by his eyes) Aditi's temporary fiance (he was never fooled that Genelia and Imraan were not just friends)
However, I'll stick to Meghna's case because she is the one I would have liked to walk up to and force open her eyes to reality.

She is very much like so many people we know who have chosen to believe what they would like to.
Like every mother believes her son/daughter is the best because she wants him/her to be.
Like almost everyone thinks that theirs is the greatest, noblest community/caste/religion and yet somehow society in general is always tending to reach new moral lows.
Like most women assert that men in general are all "characterless" , except their own boyfriend/husband and their father, their brothers and oh all those uncles. But that particular uncle is definitely on the loose side of a dress called character, just like "all men".


Then there are people who think they've seen it all and done it all and would like to guide you on the simplest of matters. Somehow, they manage to convince themselves that everyone besides them had either appeared on earth as adults or have just come out of a life long confinement, devoid of any experience in life.


Coming back to Meghna, fact of the matter is , she has simply chosen in favour of Optimism except that in her case the alternative was not pessimism but reality. So she either sees what her world actually is, which has crashed beyond her most pessimist expectations, or conjures up a better one. Put this way, the protagonist and the viewer realise that she's not mad. Just unfortunate and knowingly so. And so we decide to leave her in her bliss. This, has been hard for me to do in life.

As I googled out (yes, henceforth don't try and take credit by saying "found out". Everyone knows how you "found out"), there have been researches to suggest that a bitter truth does not always make the best medicine.

I have another character from another recent movie - Kismat Konnection - to highlight this fact.

.... Will continue on this later.