CAN YOU CHANGE DESTINY?

MOVIE: If Only
DIRECTOR:Gil Junger
CAST: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls



In Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, better known as a Bollywood disaster, half of the movie is spent out showing what the lead actors were bluffing about. Talking about scenarios and people who never existed and talking about such things which did not have anything much to do with what followed. In Junger's If Only half of the movie is spent in a dream sequence. But this is the very basis and foundation of the movie. Ian Wyndham, played by Nicholls, wakes up in the morning with his girlfriend Samantha Andrews played by Hewitt. He goes through a day where he is not an ideal lover. He does not know what his girlfriend likes. May be he is caring and really loves her but does not actually know her.

He does not know whether she has a red sweater, he does not know the importance of the graduation concert she has this evening(infact he doesnt know if she has a concert). He does not realise the love that a small student of her has for her. But he loves her and cannot lose her. But he does. And with that he realises it was a dream.

The day which we were talking about has actually begun now. He spots an uncanny similarity between the two days and observes that things which happened in the dream are recurring in his actual day. The sequence and the style and the outcomes are slightly different but they do happen. He is now afraid as he knows the outcome of the day. He is going to lose her. With that fear that its his last day with her, Junger shows a massive change in the man. He loved her more than what he ever did on that day.

This movie may be a sweet one time watch but it raises a question deep inside us. A question regarding destiny. Can we really know what will happen? Can we really change what is to happen? Can we exactly know what is going to happen or can we just reach upto certain possibilities which are probable to happen. These are not only questions of philosophy but also nowadays of Metaphysics. Though an action masala movie like Krrish is just considered a time pass watch, it too raises such a question about time. Will tell that in detail some other time.

This though is not exactly what the story stresses upon. The story stresses about the change which was brought about in the life of the guy. Ian knows he will lose Samantha if he behaved the same way he did in his dream. So he behaves in a much more caring and nice way than his dream to undo what happens in his dream. He not only remembers her concert but makes it special for her. That is undoubtedly the best scene of the movie. Also the bracelet scene is something very romantic and something to die for.

Ian wanted to change the outcome of the day. So he changed himself. By changing his behaviour, he changes everything, everything indeed.

This one is dedicated to my best friend Malay. He loves this movie. I love it too.