. This is my first Darshan movie -- and last -- unless it stars Bobby (Dosti is next).
. Don't think I've seen a recent movie so indifferently directed, scripted, and lensed. Photography in particular is off-putting. Flat-lighting, out-of-focus, grainy film-stock, etc... movie looks like it was shot in 1978.
. The mise-en-scene is haphazard, the actors don't look as if they got much in the way of direction from Darshan.
. Script is strictly by-the-number. Lacks internal logic. The situations are contrived (too many coincidences, etc...) and the characters' motivations are questionable (and predictable). The dialogue must be the worst part -- very clichéd, too much irrelevant banter, attempts at comic relief fall flat.
. Random song placement -- they follow each other without much contextual logic -- and the picturization of songs doesn't take full-advantage of potential opportunities. That said, the music is enjoyable and Bipasha and Priyanka make for nice eye-candy. The Nakhre, Saajan Saajan, and Barsaat Ke Din Aaye songs are best.
. The saving graces of the movie are the actors, who try their best to imbue their sketchy characters with any semblance of life. Bobby looks like a million bucks. He is his usual earnest self and does his damned best to make his Arav ring true, but the character does come off as unlikeable in the end due to the awkward changes of heart the script dictates. The "ravishing" (trailer quote) Bipasha looks ravishing indeed -- the best I've seen her look thus far -- and that's saying a lot! This is strictly a look-pretty kind of roles as she doesn't have much to do acting-wise. Unlike most, I like the "sensuous" Priyanka in her role. I did not find her "amateurish" as some have said. She had the most difficult role of the lot as it required her to go through a gamut of emotions, something she achieved quite well in my opinion. I find her truly lovely, very feminine, very soft-spoken, a good contrast to Bipasha's more "modern" city girl.
On the whole, the film is too breezy (read: desultory) to leave much of a mark and is instantly forgotten once one is out of the theater.
. Don't think I've seen a recent movie so indifferently directed, scripted, and lensed. Photography in particular is off-putting. Flat-lighting, out-of-focus, grainy film-stock, etc... movie looks like it was shot in 1978.
. The mise-en-scene is haphazard, the actors don't look as if they got much in the way of direction from Darshan.
. Script is strictly by-the-number. Lacks internal logic. The situations are contrived (too many coincidences, etc...) and the characters' motivations are questionable (and predictable). The dialogue must be the worst part -- very clichéd, too much irrelevant banter, attempts at comic relief fall flat.
. Random song placement -- they follow each other without much contextual logic -- and the picturization of songs doesn't take full-advantage of potential opportunities. That said, the music is enjoyable and Bipasha and Priyanka make for nice eye-candy. The Nakhre, Saajan Saajan, and Barsaat Ke Din Aaye songs are best.
. The saving graces of the movie are the actors, who try their best to imbue their sketchy characters with any semblance of life. Bobby looks like a million bucks. He is his usual earnest self and does his damned best to make his Arav ring true, but the character does come off as unlikeable in the end due to the awkward changes of heart the script dictates. The "ravishing" (trailer quote) Bipasha looks ravishing indeed -- the best I've seen her look thus far -- and that's saying a lot! This is strictly a look-pretty kind of roles as she doesn't have much to do acting-wise. Unlike most, I like the "sensuous" Priyanka in her role. I did not find her "amateurish" as some have said. She had the most difficult role of the lot as it required her to go through a gamut of emotions, something she achieved quite well in my opinion. I find her truly lovely, very feminine, very soft-spoken, a good contrast to Bipasha's more "modern" city girl.
On the whole, the film is too breezy (read: desultory) to leave much of a mark and is instantly forgotten once one is out of the theater.