Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam Reviews: Bollywood melodrama saved by its star performances 2009-05-31 - This is about a triangle of husband (Shah Rukh Khan) and wife (Madhuri Dixit) and the male friend she's been close to since childhood (Salman Khan). It is also about that couple and their challenges adjusting to the marriage. She doesn't put the couple first and get to know her husband: being still focused on her brother, old friend and household duties. Husband also doesn't get to know wife or make any attempt to make her brother and friend important to him too. Husband tried to reach to wife to deepen the romantic connection but she isn't there for him. He becomes more and more needy and that twists to anger and jealousy at her friendship with the old friend. He then overreacts.
The script did have something a little lacking or not enough melodrama was pulled from it, but it did go a bit slower than many others with these stars. However the stars are such that their presence and (mostly) their acting made it worth watching. They had looked at couple dynamics a bit differently too.
I did find Madhuri and Shahrukh had little chemistry and were acting to the audience rather than each other - but then the plot is about them not really connecting properly so perhaps they were doing that. Shahrukh did overdo one scene in particular when he was meant to be drunk. I have seen him do drunk better (e.g. Devdas) and found this less than his usual performance.
Surprisingly it was Salman who didn't go over the top and he was quite good and even subtle a few times. Another reviewer found Salman needy but I didn't (even though I have had that complaint about some other Salman performances). There is also a cameo from Aishwarya Rey Bachchan).
The musical numbers were big ones and the music fine but mostly unmemorable. The look of the costumes still drifted more to a 1980 and 1990s look (in 2002) at times yet there some more modern ones coming in mostly on the males. SRK and Madhuri really didn't get a chance to strut their stuff but Salman (as a top singer) does quite a bit and did it well.
It's not the greatest of Bollywood but a bit above average and the actors make it worth the journey. Elsewhere on the Net it tends to get an average or a bit above. A keeper.
Shahrukh Khan shines once again. 2008-03-11 - I loved Shahrukh Khan's character a lot. While he might have gone a bit too far, I was on his side the whole time.
Once again I found myself annoyed by Salman Khan's character. He was needy and just didn't know when to step back.
But Shahrukh Khan's character (complete with inner monologue and day-dreams of ruining Salman Khan's character) really balanced it out.
Overall the movie was pretty fine. It probably went on a little longer than it should have, but I found it to be quite entertaining.
Not a fan 2007-03-15 - I love Shahrukh but this move was just bad. I had to stop watching it half way through. The songs and dances were pretty lame (except for the title song). I may be biased because Salman Khan bugs me in general, so if you like him you will probably like the movie.
No subtitles 2006-08-26 - Frist but not lest I love Shah rukh khan and Madhuri dixit, He Is very handsome she Is very beautiful they are great together on screen. All In all the movie was very good what I don't like about the movie Is that there was no subtitles so I had to go on what they were saying from other movies that I had watched for what they were saying luckly I got the jest of It. for people like me who Is not an Indian subtitles would come In very handy.
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