In the last few years Hindi movies have become slicker and quicker, full of dizzying camera moves and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it editing. The technical excitement is almost always remarkable, but it’s starting to seem like its own formula.

With Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi director Aditya Chopra returned to the silver screen as director after 8 long years since his last movie Mohabbatein released. It hadn’t been a great year for Yash Raj Films and there were one too many reasons why YRF desperately wanted Rab Ne to be a hit.

Shahrukh Khan’s films very clearly arouse a lot of interest and this movie did the same job but with a difference - that being Shahrukh’s ordinary looks in the film. Shahrukh plays a normal guy named Surinder Sahni working for Punjab Powers.

He attends the wedding of his Professor’s daughter where he falls in love with the bride Taani (Anushka Sharma), she is beautiful, bright and cheerful (ala Preity Zinta) but things take a favorable turn when the news of the groom’s death in an accident reach the wedding party. In such a time Desi hero comes forward to help the girl in sorrow and her family. And being his professor’s favorite student he wins his daughters hand and rab makes this jodi for the film to proceed.

Throughout the film he is shown asserting and compromising his true self balancing the act between ordinary and extraordinary to win his lady love. However, there are flaws in the script, Surinder and Taani’s relationship is not established well enough to justify her having an extra marital affair. Taani’s character needed more detail than just establishing her as a vivacious girl.

In some cases you need to just switch your mind off instead of trying to find a reason as to why Taani doesn’t recognize her husband in his funky avatar. Now coming to SRK’s makeover story - the makeover is not credible at all. SRK is at his ham best; he tends to go a bit over board with his dressing sense to dialogue delivery - extremely frustrating at times. Only hardcore SRK fans can like him in this new role.

Overall, this film has enough drama to draw you to the screens and keep you hooked. It is quite lengthy. 2 hours 40 minutes are a bit too much for this particular movie and subject.

Shah Rukh Khan is simply excellent as first the shy Suri and then the flamboyant, full of energy, Raj. Newcomer Anushka gets a really well carved character to perform and it despite being her first film, she comes across an absolute natural. Vinay Pathak is fun and provides good comic relief.

This is an average film. All in all, the film has the capability to do very well in the North and the overseas but elsewhere the film won’t be anywhere near Aditya’s earlier two works (like DDLJ and Mohabbatein) in terms of business.