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This movie is spot-on the tittle, just too hard to relate to or make sense of. Karan Johar claims that he wrote the script
in 9 days, well I would say, waste made in haste!. This movie is gives you the
feeling of “I have seen this before” but not quite all of it from the same
movies. So since this is a Dharma production, Yes, there is the grandeur, the fabulous
elegant sets, the beautiful scenic locales, the awesome makeup and designer
wear but is that always going to work?.
For the first few minutes, you will quite enjoy the screenplay, the dialogues
and the romance, although the script seems trite, and so does the casting of the movie . For example, Ranbir in
Rockstar and Ranbir in ADHM is no different- budding singer, whose friendship
turns in to unrequited love. The story line only slightly different, in
this they keep Ranbir (Ayan)rich, this is Dharma production so we have to have
that, also here he never really gets the female protagonist to see the “lover
in him”..Wow! after all that romance , you go like- there is no love!. Oh come on!....placing the plot in Britan,
doesn’t make the script any stronger and NRI’s are BTW not so confused about
love.
The movie is about some sort of unrequited
love thingy that is going in circles, Ayan loves Alizeh (Anushka Shrama) but Alizeh loves Ali
(fawad Khan), Ali loves many women, including her ……so somewhere in the middle,
Ayan decides to romance Saba (Aishwarya
rai), Saba loves no one but then she thinks she is going to love Ayan, so this is endless and hopeless… I call it a thingy because I DON’T GET IT!! The message that
you take back home, if any, is that passion overrides care and compatibility in
a romantic relationship.
Call me a traditionalist, but I would say that the character
of Alizeh, is actually all narcissistic
and shallow which the director tries to shove it down your throat for being
rational, balanced, loving, caring etc. There was one scene that may perhaps be funny for the witty dialogues, where Alizeh drops insults over dinner conversation to Ayan’s girlfriend, if you actually replay that scene in your head, you would go like how mean and cocky was that? Isn’t Alizeh actually a bully?. Aishwarya
Rai does make some impression in the very short role she plays. However, even if the movie had to be re-shot with another actor replacing Fawad Khan, given the
recent controversy, it wouldn’t have mattered, he hardly exists. The actor was wasted in any which way, with absolute no focus on him in the movie and barely any screen time
After two most stressful and
hectic months of my life, I was desperate to watch a movie , the way I like it
– “on the Big Screen” . Getting to watch
a Diwali release on its’ second day and that too an early morning 8.40 am show….folks
not worth it..not this one! I am trying to wash this movie off my head by watching the SNL mock on the final US presidential debate, over and over again and I sure cant get enough
