{"id":1573,"date":"2016-07-07T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:55:52","slug":"qarib-qarib-singlle-movie-review-irrfan-khan-parvathy-tanuja-chandra-romantic-hero-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"The Laid-back Romance Of Irrfan Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ifty-year-old Irrfan Khan doesn\u2019t dance like the romantic heroes Bollywood has repeatedly told<\/i> us should. He doesn\u2019t sing like them either. Neither does he look the part (despite being a Khan). He isn\u2019t the one who will guarantee a happily-ever-after, or go to unthinkable lengths across countries for love. In short, he can\u2019t stretch his hands and instantly sell romance the way Shah Rukh Khan <\/a>has been designed to.\n\nHow has he then, quietly and comfortably, made the jump from a serious, thinking \u201ccharacter\u201d actor to a feasible modern-day romantic lead? By breaking the one-note conventional portrayal of romance.\n\nTanuja Chandra\u2019s Qarib Qarib Singlle <\/i>is Irrfan\u2019s second rom-com outing this year after Saket Chaudhary\u2019s breezy Hindi Medium<\/i>. In the film, he plays the 40-year-old Yogi, who meets 35-year-old widowed Jaya (Parvathy) on a dating app called Ab Tak Singlle and embarks on a trip of letting go and holding on, across Rishikesh, Rajasthan, and Gangtok. Yogi is already far above Bollywood\u2019s prescribed age for a romantic hero and his presentability is far below its emulation quotient. His wardrobe is doused in the flashiest reds and yellows, accessorised with caps that spell out \u201cYOLO\u201d and \u201cSwag\u201d. He meets his date for the first time wearing bright red joggers fresh from his \u201cmarathon-preparing jog\u201d at Carter Road, claims his surat is \u201cstalker jaisi\u201d and snores his way to sleep every night.\n\n

Irrfan Khan\u2019s romance is a slow-cooked dum biryani, in a world of Maggi two-minute heroes. It\u2019s subtle, comic, sarcastic, laid-back, and immensely satisfying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nClearly, Yogi is not the kind of person you fall in love with at first sight. For him, the grand declarations are made up of the little things — like getting a crate full of mangoes for his date so that she can eat them the right way. With his loud, uncouth, and a worryingly carefree personality, he may just be every girl\u2019s worst nightmare. But Yogi isn\u2019t worried, because he isn\u2019t eager to speedily please. Just the way Irrfan Khan\u2019s romance is a slow-cooked dum biryani, in a world of Maggi two-minute heroes. It\u2019s subtle, comic, sarcastic, laid-back, and immensely satisfying.\n\nIrrfan\u2019s Yogi feels like a natural extension of his hilarious, but endearing Monty from Anurag Basu\u2019s Life In A\u2026 Metro<\/i> ten years ago. He also shows traces of Raj Batra from Hindi Medium<\/i><\/a> who ditches all pretense of sophistication, and grooves to \u201cIshq Tera Tadpave\u201d with his little daughter at a posh South Delhi party. Yogi is also no different than Rana Chaudhary from Piku<\/i>, who prefers to communicate through his glances. (Remember the brilliant scene where he looks at Deepika to imply that a change in the seating arrangements in the car is required?) His brand of romance isn\u2019t dominated by a lifetime of song and dance, but a life of flawed companionship, one where a flashy exterior masks an inherent decency.\n\nIt\u2019s this \u201clove me as I am\u201d aesthetic of a romantic hero that Irrfan Khan has been unknowingly peddling that has actually made it plausible to redefine a genre of aspirational unbelievability. Irrfan\u2019s brand of romance is realistic, self-aware, and a reminder that love can be sober and that romantic heroes can very well be ordinary people over the age of 30 years. His romance can <\/i>make the transition to real life. With him, what you see is what you get.\n\nIt\u2019s the closest a Bollywood romance and a romantic hero can mirror real life. And it wouldn\u2019t have been possible without Irrfan Khan.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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