Bollywood's Version of An Affair To Remember

Mann is a delightful movie. It stars Aamir Khan who is a really good actor. If you like An Affair to Remember, this movie has all the right moments for you. The opening is a bit different, as our womanizer (Aamir) is shown to really be a womanizer. It does not endear you to him at all. However, it turns out these extra scenes help fill out the character so that when he figures out he is in love, it is a deeply movement moment.

This is Bollywood so there are songs and some dancing. All delightful. The scene where they meet the grandmother was spot on. And when I say spot on, I mean that literally, it could have been the same set. The grandmother even looked the same. My favorite parts where with the grandmother. She doesn't promise a shawl, she promises anklets, which become all the more important at the end because our female isn't just paralyzed, she has lost both her legs. (And no, I don't consider that a spoiler, because if you haven't seen An Affair to Remember, you shouldn't be reading this at all.) Anyway, when Aamir tries to put the anklet on, that is when he realizes who she is.

The movie translates well into Bollywood. They plan to meet at the Gateway to India for instance. However, I have to say, the ending wasn't as powerful as the one between Grant and Kerr, mostly because Manisha, who plays Kerr's character, while she is delightful in the rest of the movie, just doesn't play this in as satisfying a way as Kerr did. Also, the dialogue transitions to Aamir asking her why she didn't show up, rather than the way Grant's dialogue goes on for a while where he is talking about how he didn't show up. What I did like is that after the climatic scene, they show their wedding and that scene makes up for the lack of emotion in the climatic scene.  I did expect to cry more at the end than I did. But I still completely enjoyed the movie.

If you like An Affair to remember and Bollywood movies, this is a remake worth watching.