***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** 'Mujhse Dosti Karogi' is typically a teen movie. If this were a Hollywood movie it would have most likely starred someone like Freddie Prinze Jr. or Sarah Michelle Gellar or both. The only difference being that they can actually (just) pass off being in their late teens, early twenties.
All in all this movie is quite entertaining. The story revolves around three teens, Raj, Pooja and Tina, who are seperated when Raj leaves with his parents to Britain. Raj has a crush on Tina and stays in contact with her through e-mail. Tina is bored with Raj, so smitten Pooja e-mails Raj in Tina's name. After a decade or so, Raj returns and the problems ensue. Pooja doesn't want to admit she wrote the e-mails, but it doesn't matter anyway, because Raj falls head over heels with the much more beautiful Tina. [Personally, I think Pooja (Rani Mukherjee) is much hotter than Tina (Kareena Kapoor)]. Until of course he finds out that Pooja wrote the emails.
First of all, let me say I loved Rani in this movie. Her character was truly endearing. Which made it even worse she ended up with a schmuck like Hritik, who falls in and out of love at the drop of a hat and manages to blaim everything on the person who has loved him his entire life. *POSSIBLE SPOILER* When he reproaches Pooja for lying to him, because he is really in love with her, I wanted to smack him. But naturally Pooja wouldn't just roll over and gave him good by telling him that he's the one who didn't recognise her as the person who had been sending the emails. After all, he had told her that when they would meet his heart would recognise hers... aaahhh...
As far as the acting goes, like I said, Rani was brilliant. Hritik was so so. It's quite remarkable that whenever Hritik tries to display emotions like anger or grief, he looks like his eyes are about to pop out of his head, his head is then gonna explode and he wants to smack someone elses head into a wall. I much rather prefer Shah Rukh Khan who when displaying grief or anger stays admirably calm and controlled and turns on the puppy dog eyes. As far as Kareena is concerned, her acting is good except she comes across as a real lightbulb, as usual. But I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps her character Tina is a lightbulb, in which case Kareena's acting was really good. All in all, this movie is quite enjoyable, if you don't mind a Bollywood teen movie. It would have been nice if it had a more original ending, for instance if Rani in the end fell madly in love with Uday Chopra and let Hritik and Kareena make each other miserable.
**/5 stars
All in all this movie is quite entertaining. The story revolves around three teens, Raj, Pooja and Tina, who are seperated when Raj leaves with his parents to Britain. Raj has a crush on Tina and stays in contact with her through e-mail. Tina is bored with Raj, so smitten Pooja e-mails Raj in Tina's name. After a decade or so, Raj returns and the problems ensue. Pooja doesn't want to admit she wrote the e-mails, but it doesn't matter anyway, because Raj falls head over heels with the much more beautiful Tina. [Personally, I think Pooja (Rani Mukherjee) is much hotter than Tina (Kareena Kapoor)]. Until of course he finds out that Pooja wrote the emails.
First of all, let me say I loved Rani in this movie. Her character was truly endearing. Which made it even worse she ended up with a schmuck like Hritik, who falls in and out of love at the drop of a hat and manages to blaim everything on the person who has loved him his entire life. *POSSIBLE SPOILER* When he reproaches Pooja for lying to him, because he is really in love with her, I wanted to smack him. But naturally Pooja wouldn't just roll over and gave him good by telling him that he's the one who didn't recognise her as the person who had been sending the emails. After all, he had told her that when they would meet his heart would recognise hers... aaahhh...
As far as the acting goes, like I said, Rani was brilliant. Hritik was so so. It's quite remarkable that whenever Hritik tries to display emotions like anger or grief, he looks like his eyes are about to pop out of his head, his head is then gonna explode and he wants to smack someone elses head into a wall. I much rather prefer Shah Rukh Khan who when displaying grief or anger stays admirably calm and controlled and turns on the puppy dog eyes. As far as Kareena is concerned, her acting is good except she comes across as a real lightbulb, as usual. But I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps her character Tina is a lightbulb, in which case Kareena's acting was really good. All in all, this movie is quite enjoyable, if you don't mind a Bollywood teen movie. It would have been nice if it had a more original ending, for instance if Rani in the end fell madly in love with Uday Chopra and let Hritik and Kareena make each other miserable.
**/5 stars