Main Hoon Na Reviews
iLeo
Super Reviewer
March 11, 2008
Here's an interesting movie with lots of laughter, music, dancing, and all around fun. Ram is in the military and enjoys what he does, but an incident causes him to lose his father. He is left with a duty that he must fulfill and to honor his father's last wishes. He must pose as a student, and protect a general's daughter as well as unite his estranged family. Great cast- Shahrukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Amrita Rao, Zayed Khan, and Suniel Shetty. Worth seeing!
July 6, 2007
it was really cute and funny at the same time. I love Lucky!! shahrukh khan does really well playing "the nerd"
lurple
July 12, 2008
The film bounces around from action to romance to drama, all interspersed with entertaining music and dance numbers. The movie is almost always light-hearted and fun (and I found some of the funny bits hilarious, to be honest), although the main plotline deals with the serious issues of disputes between India and Pakistan and terrorism.
There are two things that really surprised me about the Main Hoon Na:
1. It careens along its three-hour course with hardly a dull moment. For what is essentially a fun popcorn romp of a movie, it's amazing that it manages to run this long and still be enjoyably engaging for pretty much the entire time.
2. I still have no idea how the writer/director managed to combine such a bizarre mix of things so successfully. There's no way this movie should work, never mind work well, but it does.
So I say see it for yourself. It's not ever going to be an Oscar contender but it is a very entertaining and fun movie, which is exactly what it sets out to be. If you're not put off by some some singing and dancing, Main Hoon Na will be both familiar and refreshingly different for most westerners.
When a movie is described (fairly accurately, as it turns out) as a cross between True Lies, Grease, Never Been Kissed, Toy Soldiers- with a little bit of Matrix-style action and the requisite Bollywood singing and dancing- how could it not be terrible beyond belief? Main Hoon Na (which apparently translates as "I am here now"), while it does live up to the description, is not what I expected.
The film bounces around from action to romance to drama, all interspersed with entertaining music and dance numbers. The movie is almost always light-hearted and fun (and I found some of the funny bits hilarious, to be honest), although the main plotline deals with the serious issues of disputes between India and Pakistan and terrorism.
There are two things that really surprised me about the Main Hoon Na:
1. It careens along its three-hour course with hardly a dull moment. For what is essentially a fun popcorn romp of a movie, it's amazing that it manages to run this long and still be enjoyably engaging for pretty much the entire time.
2. I still have no idea how the writer/director managed to combine such a bizarre mix of things so successfully. There's no way this movie should work, never mind work well, but it does.
So I say see it for yourself. It's not ever going to be an Oscar contender but it is a very entertaining and fun movie, which is exactly what it sets out to be. If you're not put off by some some singing and dancing, Main Hoon Na will be both familiar and refreshingly different for most westerners.
Movieslug
February 17, 2008
this was a cute film, i liked the bad guy though. zayed khan did a good job, i liked his first hair style though. the songs were nice.
May 29, 2007
I absolutely love this movie. It's so corny and silly (as most Bollywood movies are) but I still love watching it.
bollywoodrockstar
May 20, 2007
this was a cutee movie!!!! i loved the songs...amrita rao and sushmita sen were gorgeous as always!! and zayed was cute :P
Sherazade
May 7, 2007
Take a bow Farah Khan, this is not only stellar + it's outright hilarious. Sushmita Sen and SRK sizzle.
February 22, 2013
SRK movies are going downhill starting with this, it's just a lame movie with rip-off songs and retro music.
July 18, 2012
Great movie! I bought the double disc DVD! Fantastic Job Farah Khan!
Shah Rukh Khan is as amazing as always. Totally a slap in the face for Filmfare for giving his Best Actor to Hrithik for "Koi Mil Gaya" rather than his "Kal Ho Naa Ho". In this film, he just keeps on proving further that he's a extremely versatile, trendy and class one actor!
Great movie! I bought the double disc DVD! Fantastic Job Farah Khan!
July 21, 2011
As I said majority of the Bollywood movies can be felt good, if you going to watch it with your family and friends and you smile and whistle when the Stars dances or makes an Entry, but you will not feel so well if you're looking for something Strong, Unconventional and original.
Sachin S.
August 18, 2010
filled with action, songs and a good plot, main hoon na is a movie for everyone
Rebecca H.
November 6, 2009
Not good if you aren't up for a spoof.
But fun in so many ways. Not very believable. Just fun.
Don't miss the credits at the end.
Not good if you don't know Bollywood.
Not good if you aren't up for a spoof.
But fun in so many ways. Not very believable. Just fun.
Don't miss the credits at the end.
The Sarcastic Man
October 24, 2009
First the positives. Okay, well only the positives. I. love. this. movie. No matter how much I attempt to hate it I keep finding myself watching it. And Lord knows I've tried. It's filled with cliche characters, an absurd plot, puns, weird running jokes, and overall dumbassery. By any form of critical reasoning, I should hate this movie with the burning passion of about 1000 supernovas. But I can't hate it. It's so charming, adorable, satirical and overall so fantastically done that I can't bring myself to hate it. Going into more specifics now. It has the weirdest plot of any Bollywood movie I had ever seen. It's an action, comedy, romance, inspirational, musical film. *head explodes from information overload*. Seriously, this is the most overly ridiculous thing ever. Yet Farah Khan brilliantly pulls off all three in a sort of mockery of most average Bollywood films. The acting, is FANTASTIC. See one thing about Indian movies is there is no such thing as eye candy. All people on screen have to act. HAVE TO ACT. Which means you get no hayden christiansen or megan fox moments. They actually are able to make this insane plot come to life, which I gotta give them credit for. ALSO, Amrita Rao *drool*. Sorry, thanks to this movie its become an average reaction to that name. Seriously, I wanna slap Lucky for not taking in Sanjana earlier I mean DAMN! ARE YOU BLIND?! SHE'S BLOODY PERFECT IN EVERY F-ING WAY! In my opinion she was beautiful before Tumse Milke but afterwards...*head explodes again*. I should get the exploding head thing checked out. Also the music is great. I've had it playing through my head ever since I saw this the first time. Also, the running jokes grow on you. They get funny after the first time. The principal's insanity, ms. kakkad's boring-ness, the way violin players and other musicians randomly appear out of nowhere when anything involving love occurs.
Overall, if you're not into Bollywood, don't watch it. But otherwise, it works as all the extremes of an Indian movie. It has an odd plot, cliche characters, and just outright weirdness but its so adorable, charming and blah blah blah you heard it all already.
Alright well. This is interesting, first review of an indian movie. Let me warn you ahead of time, if you don't know Bollywood stuff then this is not the film to introduce you to it, that movie is called Lagaan and is absolutely bloody amazing.
First the positives. Okay, well only the positives. I. love. this. movie. No matter how much I attempt to hate it I keep finding myself watching it. And Lord knows I've tried. It's filled with cliche characters, an absurd plot, puns, weird running jokes, and overall dumbassery. By any form of critical reasoning, I should hate this movie with the burning passion of about 1000 supernovas. But I can't hate it. It's so charming, adorable, satirical and overall so fantastically done that I can't bring myself to hate it. Going into more specifics now. It has the weirdest plot of any Bollywood movie I had ever seen. It's an action, comedy, romance, inspirational, musical film. *head explodes from information overload*. Seriously, this is the most overly ridiculous thing ever. Yet Farah Khan brilliantly pulls off all three in a sort of mockery of most average Bollywood films. The acting, is FANTASTIC. See one thing about Indian movies is there is no such thing as eye candy. All people on screen have to act. HAVE TO ACT. Which means you get no hayden christiansen or megan fox moments. They actually are able to make this insane plot come to life, which I gotta give them credit for. ALSO, Amrita Rao *drool*. Sorry, thanks to this movie its become an average reaction to that name. Seriously, I wanna slap Lucky for not taking in Sanjana earlier I mean DAMN! ARE YOU BLIND?! SHE'S BLOODY PERFECT IN EVERY F-ING WAY! In my opinion she was beautiful before Tumse Milke but afterwards...*head explodes again*. I should get the exploding head thing checked out. Also the music is great. I've had it playing through my head ever since I saw this the first time. Also, the running jokes grow on you. They get funny after the first time. The principal's insanity, ms. kakkad's boring-ness, the way violin players and other musicians randomly appear out of nowhere when anything involving love occurs.
Overall, if you're not into Bollywood, don't watch it. But otherwise, it works as all the extremes of an Indian movie. It has an odd plot, cliche characters, and just outright weirdness but its so adorable, charming and blah blah blah you heard it all already.
Aparna
August 1, 2005
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Main hoon na ? shah rukh says it to all ? [b]the Love counselor ! A man ?[/b] ? how can men ever be a love counselor ? those who are more famous for creating ruckus and general unrest in the nation ? egoistic and selfish?anyways not their fault ? its what his mother went through during - [b]pre, while and post pregnancy ? sons just represent the bitterness of their respective mothers?and fathers. [/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]If parents are bitter, fighting & contradictory in nature ? children more or less become like them?very few change for better or for worst due to circumstances, peer pressure or some accident ?[b] like Khalil Gibran had a ? strong willed , not giving up easily mother (Kamilla) but a fraud, cheat father who was jailed (framed falsely or otherwise I do not know) ? but she went on and on and on ? son saw it all , felt it all, imbibed it all ? imbibed a lot from Mother nature ? and became a precious Pearl ![/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Anyways scenes from Kuch-2 hota hai taken ? Jhalli(uncouth) girl (daughter of Army officer Kabir bedi) very tom boyish as father always wanted a son so the daughter tried to please father by becoming and behaving like a boy ..but when she grows up, she falls in love with an uncouth boy(long hair, flunky life style) ? now what?[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon][b]Army officer , Major. Shah rukh khan acts like a college boy who was deputed to protect Kabir Bedi?s daughter as she was to become an ?endangered species? [/b]? some terrorists had threatened him that they will get his daughter. In the meanwhile it is shown that Kabir Bedi , being an Army Oficer is so busy with looking after the nation that he has no time for family and there is a major communication gap between father and daughter ! [b]God knows how they get such ideas about Life of Army families !![/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Hang on ? there is yet another locha case in here ? the flunky fella , the uncouth army officer?s daughter is in love with is the step brother of Major Shah Rukh !! for 20 years, mother and flunky son were lamenting father?s absence from their life ? whereas father was living happily ever after with shah rukh?s mother and son shah rukh ? he had died actually and son shah rukh had come to celebrate the last rites with step mother and son ? actually I have missed the first scene ? saw it from the scene where he is seen singing and dancing with young college boys and girls ?Kiska hai yeh tumko ? song.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In comes [b]a chemistry teacher (susmita sen) wearing a shiffon saree which is blowing more than the wind and showing[/b]?.well and wearing a bow blouse ? kind of choli tied from behind ! here we have men - tailors etc. who are getting paid for sewing hooks and stitch buttons to the kameez worn by ladies and the new generation fashion designers are out to exterminate them! They are encouraging olden day style ? no jhamelas of hooking and unhooking?kind of what neena gupta wore in kama sutra??[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Her name is chandni?.and [b]whenever shah rukh sees her he becomes giddy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Shah rukh asks Chandni [b]to make the uncouth girl as feminine and oomph filled and as coquettish as she is [/b]. She agrees ? and the uncouth girls straightens her hair , wears a salwar kameez ? hang on ? a kameezs with thread knots showing the waxed back ! uncouth boy sees it and falls in love with immediate effect.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In the mean time uncouth guy?s mother?s birthday arrives and so shah rukh suggests that he should cut his hair?[b]mother drops the ?puja ki thali? (this is where I went mad ? no one drops thalies after worshipping Me ?just joking ) and mother and son are both very happy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon][b]In comes a physics professor ? a male with a pony tail ![/b]..[b]who is actually the terrorist ? but knew wave motion, light rays, vernier calipers, vector and scalar scale measurement[/b]?etc which a physics professor teaches ? amazing things this education has taught us I tell you! Look at me for example ! how am I utilizing my education have you ever wondered dear readers ? by being an Alkaline Critic ..unlike the acid critics who you see often! - [/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Then there is a prom festival where they sing ?gore-6 chore-6?? a song where men are requesting women to be a one-man woman !how times have changed ! good.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In this song, [b]Ms. Universe, Susmita sen, is wearing a red chiffon saree and the pallu is taken in a very advantageous way.. from the men?s point of view ? see the movie yourself and enjoy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][color=lemonchiffon][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]I am going to recommend this movie to MS-ians because I want them to see & feel the good old college days ? although since I was in a woman?s college so I escaped this [b]?Love Locha syndrome? which catches up one while he / she is in college ? kind of peer pressure ![/b][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Main hoon na ? shah rukh says it to all ? [b]the Love counselor ! A man ?[/b] ? how can men ever be a love counselor ? those who are more famous for creating ruckus and general unrest in the nation ? egoistic and selfish?anyways not their fault ? its what his mother went through during - [b]pre, while and post pregnancy ? sons just represent the bitterness of their respective mothers?and fathers. [/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]If parents are bitter, fighting & contradictory in nature ? children more or less become like them?very few change for better or for worst due to circumstances, peer pressure or some accident ?[b] like Khalil Gibran had a ? strong willed , not giving up easily mother (Kamilla) but a fraud, cheat father who was jailed (framed falsely or otherwise I do not know) ? but she went on and on and on ? son saw it all , felt it all, imbibed it all ? imbibed a lot from Mother nature ? and became a precious Pearl ![/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Anyways scenes from Kuch-2 hota hai taken ? Jhalli(uncouth) girl (daughter of Army officer Kabir bedi) very tom boyish as father always wanted a son so the daughter tried to please father by becoming and behaving like a boy ..but when she grows up, she falls in love with an uncouth boy(long hair, flunky life style) ? now what?[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon][b]Army officer , Major. Shah rukh khan acts like a college boy who was deputed to protect Kabir Bedi?s daughter as she was to become an ?endangered species? [/b]? some terrorists had threatened him that they will get his daughter. In the meanwhile it is shown that Kabir Bedi , being an Army Oficer is so busy with looking after the nation that he has no time for family and there is a major communication gap between father and daughter ! [b]God knows how they get such ideas about Life of Army families !![/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Hang on ? there is yet another locha case in here ? the flunky fella , the uncouth army officer?s daughter is in love with is the step brother of Major Shah Rukh !! for 20 years, mother and flunky son were lamenting father?s absence from their life ? whereas father was living happily ever after with shah rukh?s mother and son shah rukh ? he had died actually and son shah rukh had come to celebrate the last rites with step mother and son ? actually I have missed the first scene ? saw it from the scene where he is seen singing and dancing with young college boys and girls ?Kiska hai yeh tumko ? song.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In comes [b]a chemistry teacher (susmita sen) wearing a shiffon saree which is blowing more than the wind and showing[/b]?.well and wearing a bow blouse ? kind of choli tied from behind ! here we have men - tailors etc. who are getting paid for sewing hooks and stitch buttons to the kameez worn by ladies and the new generation fashion designers are out to exterminate them! They are encouraging olden day style ? no jhamelas of hooking and unhooking?kind of what neena gupta wore in kama sutra??[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Her name is chandni?.and [b]whenever shah rukh sees her he becomes giddy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Shah rukh asks Chandni [b]to make the uncouth girl as feminine and oomph filled and as coquettish as she is [/b]. She agrees ? and the uncouth girls straightens her hair , wears a salwar kameez ? hang on ? a kameezs with thread knots showing the waxed back ! uncouth boy sees it and falls in love with immediate effect.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In the mean time uncouth guy?s mother?s birthday arrives and so shah rukh suggests that he should cut his hair?[b]mother drops the ?puja ki thali? (this is where I went mad ? no one drops thalies after worshipping Me ?just joking ) and mother and son are both very happy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon][b]In comes a physics professor ? a male with a pony tail ![/b]..[b]who is actually the terrorist ? but knew wave motion, light rays, vernier calipers, vector and scalar scale measurement[/b]?etc which a physics professor teaches ? amazing things this education has taught us I tell you! Look at me for example ! how am I utilizing my education have you ever wondered dear readers ? by being an Alkaline Critic ..unlike the acid critics who you see often! - [/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Then there is a prom festival where they sing ?gore-6 chore-6?? a song where men are requesting women to be a one-man woman !how times have changed ! good.[/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]In this song, [b]Ms. Universe, Susmita sen, is wearing a red chiffon saree and the pallu is taken in a very advantageous way.. from the men?s point of view ? see the movie yourself and enjoy.[/b][/color][/size][/font]
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[justify][color=lemonchiffon][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]I am going to recommend this movie to MS-ians because I want them to see & feel the good old college days ? although since I was in a woman?s college so I escaped this [b]?Love Locha syndrome? which catches up one while he / she is in college ? kind of peer pressure ![/b][/size][/font]
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