What I find most amazing about Jab Tak Hai Jaan is that the entire time I was watching it I was picking it apart, but in the end it resonates more deeply that it perhaps deserves. Yes, I fell for this film and I fell hard. We've been up, we've been down, we've seen fire and we've seen rain, and by the time the film closes out with a behind the scenes montage of Yashji on set working on his final project, it's just the topper that put me over the edge and threw me into emotional freefall. The film is 176 minutes long, which is even long by Bollywood standards these days, and Chopra uses all of that time to expand a ten year long love story to its emotional acme, leaving audiences drained by the time the credits roll. The story line of Jab Tak Hai Jaan is not at all easy to compress. There is the temptation to sentimentalize about Chopra's career and allow that feeling to seep into any kind of critical response to the film, a reaction to which I may not even find myself immune, however, Jab Tak Hai Jaan delivers exactly as it is supposed to on all levels, and that's not too shabby for a film with so much expectation to live up to.
It couldn't be lugging around heavier baggage. Not only is the the final film of one of Bollywood's most beloved auteurs, and the author of the modern romantic cinema in which so much of India still revels, Yash Chopra, it's also the latest film from one of the Hindi film industry's biggest stars, Shah Rukh Khan. It's difficult to talk about Jab Tak Hai Jaan without putting it in its proper context.
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