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As i have obsessively watched K3G over 20 times i anticipated Hrithik and Kareena's reunion, so i could see them put their on screen magic to use once again, tut tut tut. I honestly believe the actors signed to this film blindfolded, with guns to their heads. WHY... the cartoon Parrot, the scary overacting we see from Hrithik and kareena. Although Abhishek's character was a Complete robotic LOSER, who kept staring at her in his stalker-like-ways, he was a better match for Kareena, but to be honest i couldn't care less how was BURDENED with her at the end. It wasn't boring because you were constantly thrown into confusion, it was hard work watching this film, cringe worthy. The 3 points are for the music, which was good.

Well to start everyone in this had overacted. It is very much of a crap movie and the actors are just so lame. Hritik being the hero, "loser" hero more likely and Kareena Kapoor as usual about her performance thinking that no one can act "better" then she can(still very bitchie in this this one). anyway all i want to say is that Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is crap, crap and mega crap i can't even believe that why do directors waste so much money in making these worthless crap romantic movie's which don't even have much of a romance.

Sooraj the young whiz-kid came with a big bang with Maine Pyaar Kiya followed by biggest blockbuster Hum Aapke Hain Koun. Subsequently keeping the tradition of Rajshree Film came up with multi-starrer Hum Saath-Saath Hain. When the latter didn't fare well at the box-office, Sooraj decided to catch up with times and make a contemporary movie of today, doing away with strong values the Rajshris used to uphold upon. In the process a major overhaul was done - for instance Anu Mallik steps into the shoes of Raam-Laxman and foreign locales chosen to film major portions of the movie in the garb of some Indian village.

The story itself is a re-hash of Rajshri's Chit-Chor with the latest ingredients and new masala's added.

How-ever the movie sticks to Sooraj's movie length of over 3 hours and makes you wince in pain. The story is so very predictable from the word go.

Valentine sequence was a big drag. Comedy sequences didn't evoke enough mirth. The animated bird was almost anything but stupid.

Kareena was doing extension of Poo's character. Hritik tried to give his best to live to the character of energetic blabbering guy. Abhishek gave a restrained performance which was good in comparison to others. A few songs were okay.

Sooraj needs to re-think as to where he has faltered big time. Avoid at all costs even if you are a big fan of Rajshri movies, Hritik, Kareena or Abhishek.

This is the worst movie ever made I'm bollywood. Pathetic performances by all actors except Abhishek Bachan.

Hritik Roshan has acted the same as he has in Koi Mil Gaya. Hey but the role is different. May be he was in character then! The pathetic shows of animations for the dog(Johnny) and the parrot add to the disgusting performances in the movie.

Kareena Kapoor's acting is negligible. and to add to this hoolah, we have Javed Jaffery and Ruby Bhatia cracking ridiculous jokes for the valentines day poppycock.

This movie is definitely a miss. Don't watch it even if you are paid to do so.

Kareena's friends are the most interesting part of the movie. Please, that does not mean its good. It only means compared to other parts of the movie, that is good.

Anyways, if you are going to watch this movie, keep a good dosage of aspirin handy.

My gosh! Do they still make this crap? I can't believe these are the same makers of "Hum Aapke Hain Koun". And to think this was 2003's most awaited film? Glad "Koi Mil Gaya" is taking that position?

Basically, Sanjana (Kareena) is to get married to Prem (Abhishek), but instead, his employee and close friend Prem Kishen (Hrithik), comes instead. Sanjana's father (Pankaj) and mother (Himani) approve of him, but one night they find out he's a fraud, Sanjana's mother no longer approves of him. He goes back to USA, and it's fights between Sanjana and her mother. Then the real Prem comes, and the two hit it off real well. Except, Sanjana doesn't know he's there to marry her. What is she to do? WHAT THE HELL ELSE WILL SHE DO? Come on, "I will love him to the end of time!"...Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon??? Of course it's Hrithik!

This film is garbage. This is where Bollywood faulters: the audience chooses quantity over quality, and would rather watch an entertaining film, than a great film! In May, a horrible film "Ishq Vishk" started a wave of successes. These films include: "Andaaz", "Bhoot", "Chalte Chalte", "Qayamat", "Hungama", and of course, "Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon" - ALL HORRIBLE FILMS!

Hrithik Roshan needs the award for "MOST OVERACTING IN A FILM". His character is so irritating, that you'd pay Sanjana to kill him! Hrithik's loud, childish, immature, stupid, sickening, insulting performance will surely go down as another embarrassment to the Hindi film industry, just like many of Salman Khan's roles.(Hello Brother, Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaaye)

Kareena is okay. I don't want to say much. Abhishek is the best performer of the film, alongside Sanjana's parents.

"Bani Bani" is the only song with good picturisation. The rest are all stupid. To make matters worse, the film has an animated talking parrot that names famous Hindi films, and pops up out of nowhere. There is also a dog that gets a cartoon face when he gets mad. Sounds stupid yet?

Don't see Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. Please!

I just wanted to set the record straight once and for all!This movie was shot almost entirely on location in the South Island of New Zealand.I saw someone commenting on this page that "Sundarnagar" (which is where this film is supposedly based)looked a lot like Switzerland! Plus many people have wondered aloud about the "coordinates" of "Sundernagar? Well it's actually New Zealand! :)

The bulk of the movie was shot in Christchurch.(I know this because a few of my friends who were living there at the time, saw some of it being shot).Even if they had not seen it, one look at it, and anyone from this part of the world would recognize it as Christchurch.

From the scenery I know that most of the "action adventure" stuff,which was "jet-boating, bungee jumping, sky diving, and white water rafting", where ALL shot in Queenstown, which is considered the "Adventure Capital" of the Southern Hemisphere.(I have actually been on "Shotover Jets" which were the jet-boats that they hired for this film.)

That's some "Location" trivia for anyone who cares to know!

Moving on to the film, the most disappointing performance from Hrithik Roshan to date. I don't think he has done anything this bad before or since. WHAT was he ON when he did this film? The overacting is taken to such absurd lengths. Kareena as Sanjaana is over-acting as well.The role was played rather "one dimensionally". But she is not entirely bad. The best acting in this movie is by Abhishek Bachchan who plays the "introvereted Prem" to Hrithik's "Extrovert".The supporting cast was adequate, but nothing too special. I liked Pankaj Kapur's rendition of the "long suffering Dad".

The music was actually quite good. Few songs too many. Many of the video's have Hrithik Roshan SANS shirt, prancing around,(I swear sometime he just looked plain "Gay")! and Kareena Kapoor wearing her signature "strappy top and tight pants"!The best song was "Bani Bani" accompanied by a nice dance from Kareena.I also liked the songs "Aur Mohabat Hain", and "Kasam Ki Kasam".

From a director like Suraj Barjatiya, this is a HUGE disappointment. The story could have worked with a better script, and a more tight reign on the performances. But that didn't happen! Too bad!

The best thing about this movie was the "scenery", but then I would say that. After all, I AM a New-Zealander! :)

sooraj barjatya tries self consciously to get oh so hip in his new flick. the effort falls flat on his face. in creating hritik roshans prem, he has creasted the most annoying, loud , irritating and obnoxious character on screen this year.. hritik if u r reading this , please stop accepting trash like this? whatever hapenned to movies like fiza and mission kashmir?kareena was ok but getting one dimensional in roles like this,also, sooraj please get a clue!! how about not plagiarising old hindi films ( like chitchor),, only saving grace was the music . altho even here,the director went overboard with 5 songs too many. in conclusion, please watch this movie at your own risk!

I have worked in a cinema for 3 years, and i have personally been to a cinema 1000s of time. Never did I know that you can fall a sleep. If the film is this Awful and boring, you can fall asleep. I am not a Big Fan of Kareena Kapoor. I think she ruined K3G with her Poo acting. I think Hritek is overrated, but watchable. At the time i was not fond of Abishek Bachchan, now he is doing well. I watched this movie because the director had given us BLOCKBUSTER HITS Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Apke Hain Kaun and Hum Saath Saath Hai. I didn't expect his next film will be so disappointing. his previous film HSSH, was a little boring because of Karishma Kapoor's annoying character and the script wasn't amazing. MPKDH was ruined by the sister and script. Abishek was a little weird staring at her like a stalker, but surprisingly he kept the film a little alive. What i mean buy alive is that I didn't after all go to sleep the whole film. DISGRACEFUL

OK, there are a lot of scenes in this film, which you have probably seen elsewhere in another Kareena Kapoor film. The plot is mainly a love story with Kareena, Hrithik, and Abishek Batchan! Of course she falls in love with the first "hero" of the movie,Hrithik. Then Abishek has to come and ruin everything, and as usual the parents(mother) are treated like villains. Some movie scenes were very unrealistic with terrible special effects, yet this opinion may differ to others. With the harsh reviews given for this movie, I think its a average rated movie, and of course there are a few laughs here and there, and Kareena actually provided most of it! She does a dance scene where she acts a bit crazy and it appeared to most as funny. Overall the movie is good, 6.5/10 for me because I enjoy heart-felt movies, which don't take the fun away by showing serious sequences and make your day miserable.

This is a tough one. While Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon does have some problems, and I can see why some people would hate at least some aspects of it, for me, the film ended up working--I was completely wrapped up in the story by the climax, getting appropriately annoyed with some characters, crying at other moments, etc. If that's the case, the film can't merit too low of a score. The film did one of its "jobs"--namely, it transported me to another world, so to speak, where I care what happens to characters.

The story is centered on Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor). She's from a family I'd call wealthy, based on their home and such, but her mom thinks they're not so well off. Sanjana has just finished undergraduate school, it seems (this point was not so clear to me, but it could have been a translation problem in the subtitles), and for the graduation celebration at the school, she and her friends perform a song asserting their modernity, independence and their conscious break from the tradition of arranged marriages. Naturally, Sanjana's mom has a different idea, and so does Sanjana's married sister, Roopa (Tanaaz Currim), who is living in New York. Roopa calls to say that she has the perfect suitor for Sanjana--Prem, a very successful, wealthy business acquaintance. He's going to be coming to India. Roopa has arranged for him to stay with her family, with the goal of arranging a marriage between Sanjana and Prem. Of course Sanjana balks at this, and she's initially ill mannered and sarcastic towards Prem. But will Prem grow on her? Making things even more interesting, there's a big twist about halfway through the film.

Like a number of other recent Bollywood films, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon begins, at least, by self-consciously trying to seem very modern. The first song, "Papa Ki Pari", has a kind of Disneyfied MTV style--Sanjana and her four best friends are on stage in relatively skimpy clothing, something like a cross between an Indian Spice Girls and five Hilary Duffs. There are flashing lights, lots of affected attitudes, Sanjana is posing with a guitar, there are graffiti backdrops, dancing cheerleaders, and so on. Unlike most American school-oriented films, everyone loves each other in this opening scene. Teachers dressed like nuns are in the audience grooving to the music, holding signs that they love the students. Students are holding signs that they love the teachers. The parents act very moderately "shocked" by some of the things they're hearing and seeing on stage, but just for a moment, then they're back to smiling and being proud.

Taking something of a left turn, director Sooraj R. Barjatya mixes the typical Bollywood romance-comedy mode, which is rooted in realist inclinations, with a kind of bizarre cartoonishness once the setting changes to Sanjana's house. Sanjana has an almost purely CGI parrot who squawks commentary by reciting movie titles. She has a dog whose head is occasionally drawn over in a Saturday morning cartoon style. The interior of the house was constructed in a studio, and in some scenes, it looks like there was supposed to be exterior scenery composited into the windows, but it wasn't completed, so it's just left as bluescreen. This mood lasts up until Prem first appears. Hrithik Roshan plays Prem manically but comedically over-the-top. At this stage, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon feels more like a crazy sitcom--the overall mood isn't that different from the early sitcom segment of Natural Born Killers (1994), although there's obviously less of an evil undertone here.

This is probably the point where a lot of people decide that they really hate Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon. We know that a lot of people hate CGI. A lot of people hate departures from realism, whether conscious or not, and so on. I didn't hate the film at this point, but I was having problems adjusting to it. Especially given the mood change that follows, it seems, as it does in too many Bollywood films, that perhaps Barjatya didn't know exactly what mode he was shooting for at first. From MTVish glam-party to surreal, absurdist sitcom to Bollywood comedy-romance is quite a shift in gears. But I like both surrealist and absurdist stuff, so the sitcom section didn't bother me--I even admired the insanity of putting the crude and corny CGI and animation in the film. It was just too weird not to like.

And after that point, I began being drawn into the film more and more. It doesn't hurt that from the beginning Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is full of beautiful people, including the women, and especially including Kapoor. It also doesn't hurt that Barjatya fills his exterior shots with breathtaking scenery (filmed in New Zealand and Mauritius). After the sitcom stuff, there's an extended sequence that's part travelogue, part "extreme sports" promo. This whole section is beautifully shot, beautifully edited, and the sports are beautifully choreographed. On a purely visual level, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is often worthy of a 10.

The love story kept getting more interesting from that point forward, as well, and the film also remains humorous for most of its length. By the time the twist arrives, I was completely into the film. Yes, the performances remained almost consistently over-the-top, but as the film always has a cartoonish undercurrent, it worked for me. And although some people might find comic relief-man Johnny Lever annoying, he makes me laugh.

Finally, I loved the songs. Since this is a Bollywood musical, that's important. Composer Anu Malik smartly abandons clichéd Bhangra rhythms and gives us something much more sophisticated rhythmically, harmonically and melodically that manages to both be very modern and retain its traditional elements while being catchy at the same time.

Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is no masterpiece, but it's not a disaster, either. Still, exercise caution if you're only looking for realism and you dislike "cheese".

Love is beautiful. Love is understanding. Love is peace. It is the greatest thing that a human will ever attain. There is love between Sanjana and Satyaprakash. Between PremKumar and PremKishan. Between PremKishen and SatyaPrakash. Between Sanjana and her friends. And ofcourse between Sanjana and PremKishen. And these are all well established. From traits of behaviorism to scenic locations, its all love. This is the content that makes this movie beautiful.

The 1 raters are trying to find darkness within it, but there is none. Esp in Premkishen and Sanjana. There is a little in Susheela but that is not strong. Another one is "Paisa bolta hai"., which is also a funny part. And this is good point in this movie of optimism.

Well made. Though not a masterpiece in its genre but still good. If you liked Mohabbatein you would like its content too. For its content is dominating than others. 7/10 is for that technical ignorance. Watch it if you like love optimistism orientied movies. It may seem a bit noisy sue to restless character of Hrithik. But still watch it as its justified well in regard to the theme. A 69/100.

Suraj Barjatya never gets it. Despite his previous movie going down the drain at box-office (Hum 77 hain), he tries yet another "mom-bro-pop and that ohsocute dog + parrot' shot at the box office. The first 60 mins are dedicated to a whole galaxy of family members, that pour in at the right time & with a right line.

Hritik is overtly conscious, Kareena goes over the board and Abhishek is untolerable. In the end, 2 words and a vowel--Gimme a break. Please dont waste your money on this one.

Please save mankind from these feel good movies. Isnt there a law against torture in the name of movie making? I understand that a commercial hindi movie must be taken with a pinch of salt but then isnt asking the viewer to actually swallow a barrel full asking for too much?

The movie starts with Prem (Hrithik Roshan) coming to "SunderNagar" where Kareena Kapoor stays with her parents. This Sundernagar is supposed to be some remote place in India but has a striking resemblance to Switzerland. There are lakes, snow capped mountains and Honda Cars. The Honda Cars are innocently number plated with a UP number plate. You can go water rafting, bungee jumping (From a chopper to boot) and deep sea diving here. The "village" railway station can put any in Europe to shame. God, please make me a villager in this village called Sundernagar. There are no problems whatsoever in this Paradise.

Kareena lives in a palace (which her father refers to as a "chota" ghar) with a computer generated parrot which reels off Hindi movie names. The director challenges the intellect of the viewer with asking us to believe this. There is a misunderstanding with everyone assuming that Hrithik is the owner of the estate. Kareena falls for him (Whoa isnt that a twist in the tale!) and a couple of meaning less songs later, Abhishek Bachchan appears as the real owner. The movie then drags on with sacrifices and a predictable end. Hrithik attempts to be this enthusiastic person with a zeal for life. He ends up overacting. Kareena is her usual loud self. Abhishek, thanks to the role comes out slightly better than the others.

I appeal to the government to bring out a law against making such utter crap.

I think the only way a Western European cineast can bear the minimum-three-hour schmaltz of a typical Bollywood flic like this is by inviting some friends for a DVD night and laughing, shaking heads and making fun throughout the film. That's what I did, which is why the film was a great experience for me. Of course this doesn't prevent me from noticing the terrible cinematic quality of this film. In addition to the usual Bollywood film weirdnesses, this one had: unbearable misunderstandings, emotional pain of a degree that causes a head-ache even thousands of miles away in Austria, and a terribly over-acting clown looking like a mixture of Elvis Presley and Ace Ventura. Oh, and Ace Ventura reminds me of the animated red parrott and the half-animated dog, both supposed to be funny but completely displaced.

Switch off your brains, invite some friends and enjoy this extremely physical experience!

Worst acting. I am wonder was this purpose fully made so bad

What a lousy movie!i have never seen any body hamming so much.What a lousy movie from Mr Barjatya.He is truly an average director.Seriously i liked Maine Pyar Kiya,Hum Aapke Hain Koun sucked but had a fine performances by Salman and Madhuri,Hum Saath Saath Hain was great.With this i think Mr Barjatya wanted to take a break from family oriented movies and enter modern day style movies like hero's wearing designer cloths,belly top gals,abroad shooting and many more.He adds more stupid things.A parrot which says the name of top Indian movies,how lame is that.And a dog which makes cartoon faces when it is mad,really pathetic.

Well the visuals in new Zealand are breath takingly gorgeous.Activities that leads are doing like river rafting etc are a treat to watch.Songs Picturisations are really good.And the songs are not so bad.played .

Now back to the bad parts.The dialogs are lousy.Direction is lousy.Acting is miserable.Hrithik gives his worst act ever and is so annoying and acts like a moron.Surely deserved the worst actor for 2003.Kareena has life less emotions and expressions and sports a plastic smile.Himani Shivpuri hams,hams and hams even more.Girls which Sanjs friends were dumb.Abhisek was wasted.Pankaj Kapoor is all right.Reema Lagoo is wasted.Johnny Lever hams as usual trying to be funny which he is not.Farida Jalal makes a pleasant cameo and leaves an impression

For those who do not know, This movie is a "remake" of older Rajshri movie "ChitChor" of Amol Palekar with the BEST songs of YasuDas. This movie is OK but has no original test as all the "remake" fails to do. Abhisek is better than Vijayendra Ghatge however Hrithik Roshan is no match to Amol Palekar. He looks very Fake (Not that bad) as he trys to be witty, i personally think Amol Palekar is the Best for that character. Kareena is slightly better than Zarina. Both had their own style to impress viewers. Songs are no match also to Chitchor except one song. One must See Chitchor along with this movie. Chitchor was made in 1976 while this movie was made in 2003 yet it fails to impress. In 30 years lots of thing have changed. Could have been better but not!!

this is easily hrithik's worst film and worst performance ever karenaa too suported hrithik in over acting abhishek was below average

music is OK

story is about mistaken identities where the heroine "SANJANA" and her family mistake the poor PREM (hrithik) as d rich prem(abhishek)

this is 3 hours of torture i don't understand what an actor like pankaj kapur was doing in this film ???

and most irritating part of all was that film was clearly shot in some foreign location but the actors kept saying that it is some city called "sundar nagar"

LOL don't waste your time in this one

Talk about a movie getting bad reviews on the IMDB. I am kind of surprised. Cause this movie did NOT suck. Let me first start with the story. Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor) falls in love with Prem (Hritik Roshan), a man chosen by her parents to marry her. After he has finally won her heart, her parents find out that they mistook him for his boss. Meaning the boss has money, he doesn't. So her mother and her sister encourage her to get along with the boss also called Prem (Abhishek Bachchan). Now start the woes. Does she choose the man she loves? Or does she obey her mother and marry the boss who has fallen in love with her?

The first half of the movie was annoying at best. Both Kareena and Hritik indulged in overacting. Their childish behaviour was enough to wanna make you throw the remote at the tv. This all, however, made the second half an even bigger surprise. It showed us a Kareena that can actually act provided she isn't cast in the role of dim lightbulb or bimbo cheerleader. I found her performance very moving. I actually felt for her. Hritik unfortunately remained annoying, not for his childish behaviour this time, but for acting like a total spineless jerk. As for the other characters. The mother you wouldn't wish on anyone. I'm surprised her husband didn't throttle her a long time ago. And well, Abhishek Bachchan. This is the first movie of his I have seen. And I swear, when he gets out of the car, he looked like the spitting image of his father. I found him quite adorable.

So, let's recap. The movie isn't original. The acting isn't the greatest you have ever seen. But... it's a nice, moving story. To be honest, I even cried a little. Well worth the watch.

And the movie quoting parrot was NOT annoying, he was funny. Just like the cartoon dog.

***/5 stars

Time marches on inexorably; the latest example of this truism comes in the form of Rajshri Productions' newest release, `Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon'. Under the Rajshri banner, the Barjatya clan has been dishing out family fare for well over thirty years: melodramatic tearjerkers, chaste love stories, moralistic family dramas that were sensitive and inoffensive, if overly simple. With the arrival of Sooraj Barjatya, the clan's output took on a veneer of modernity that imparted a certain slickness to their somewhat regressive `family values' agenda and also introduced a new element: cheesiness.

`Maine Pyaar Kiya', Sooraj's directorial debut, was loud, kitschy, and launched a new romantic pair with great fanfare: Salman Khan finally had a starring vehicle, and a starlet from Indian TV, Bhagyashree, was catapulted onto the big screen. Though there was much to crib about in this film, it had a bizarre, anachronistic charm, as well. Everyone, other than the villains, was sweet enough to bring on a major case of diabetes, especially the heroine. The characters were mono-dimensional, the hoary plot simple in the extreme, but what saved the film was that its lead pair truly was young and looked genuinely lovelorn. What appealed to me was that the film kept scrupulously to all the age-old conventions of Hindi cinema; though it was made in the late eighties, it could easily have been passed off as a product of the 'forties or 'fifties. The public adored it and the Barjatyas made a ton of money. Salman parlayed the success of this film into a booming career, but Bhagyashree foolishly stipulated that she would only appear in films with her supremely untalented husband and soon vanished never to be heard from again.

Sooraj Barjatya then went on to make variations on this theme in the form of `Hum Aap Ke Hai Kaun', which I found insufferable (and interminable!) despite the presence of a gorgeous Madhuri Dixit, and `Hum Saath Saath Hain', which was just as dreadful, but had a pleasing pair in Saif Ali Khan and Karishma Kapoor. The millions in India, however, loved these films, and the Barjatyas once again laughed all the way to the bank.

Now, with `Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon', Sooraj Barjatya displays a brand new awareness of the changing times. Somebody has recently clued him in about the birds and the bees; thus, though there is love galore (beginning with the title of the film), there is also a fiery exhibition of raging hormones and the unmistakable frisson of sex! Mind you, the heroine still remains chaste, but now she actually lets the hero kiss her and the screen steams up with this novel willingness to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh. Kareena Kapoor plays Sanjana, a maiden who is winsome, sexy in a wholesome mango-lassi-and-kulfi kind of way, and of course, the apple of everyone's eye. She has a noble but browbeaten father, and a beady-eyed mother who, the minute Sanjana completes college, starts scouring the world for a suitable moneybags husband for her darling daughter. The three of them reside in a town called Sundernagar.

Sundernagar merits a paragraph of its own, so unusual and geographically baffling is it! Within its city limits are gently undulating Alpine slopes so that the family can go on healthy bicycle jaunts, snow-covered peaks and daring ski runs for the hero to demonstrate his snowboarding prowess, pristine white sand beaches and clear blue oceans filled with myriad tropical fish, existing, once again, merely for the hero to exhibit that he has well-developed amphibian skills, as well. Sundernagar boasts of an entire spectrum of ethnicities living harmoniously together, for kindly white helicopter pilots take the lead pair bungee-jumping, the florist shops are similarly staffed by Caucasians, the local college with plump brown nuns, while the family's retainers are decidedly from some unnamed village in Bihar. The gospel of the Spice Girls has somehow made it to this geographical and anthropological marvel, for the college has a girl-power themed musical show, complete with mini-skirted, pom-pom wielding cheerleaders, a phenomenon that was unknown in Indian cinema until the advent of Karan Johar's `Kuch Kuch Hota Hai'. Sanjana, our leading lady, even has four best friends who are the Hindi-movie equivalent of the now-defunct Spice Girls.

When Sanjana's parents get an e-mail from their older married daughter, who lives somewhere in the USA, announcing the imminent arrival of an almost impossibly eligible bachelor in Sundernagar, they make tracks for the local airport, find a young man named Prem (Hrithik Roshan) there and promptly bring him home. They do everything, short of hurling Sanjana at him, to let him know that he'd be more than welcome to take their daughter out. Of course, it being springtime, the young couple's hormones run amok and they fall in love and a kind of prim-and-proper lust. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom (once again, I scratched my head and tried in vain to figure out the coordinates of Sundernagar), so it's the perfect season to sing duets, which they do under the gentle voyeuristic gaze of the ubiquitous desi (local) Spice Girls. Prem (Hrithik) finds every pretext to shed his shirt, while Sanjana swoons ecstatically at the sight of all those manly muscles.

Alas, the family has goofed up in a major way. Another e-mail arrives which informs them that they've brought the wrong Prem home, so much to the distress of our leading lady, her beady-eyed mother loses no time in turfing the ineligible Prem. Mummy also pragmatically suggests that her daughter speedily transfer her affections to the correct young man. The real moneybags Prem (Abhishek Bachchan) shows up with a glamorously attired mother in tow, and, in short order, falls in love with Sanjana. Of course, he is the antithesis of the gregarious, well-muscled Prem, so what's a young leading lady to do? Sanjana sheds many pretty tears and sings sad songs, none of which have any effect on her determinedly upwardly-mobile mother. How does it all end? Does this terribly sad mess get sorted out at all?

I must stop my narrative here, or there won't be any reason for you to see the film and further fill Sooraj Barjatya's coffers. This movie, like all its recent Rajshri predecessors, is strident, trashy, with a few absolutely hideous elements like a CGI talking parrot and cocker spaniel, but strangely fascinating nevertheless. The three leads are nice to look at and take all this nonsense very seriously, so we too end up buying into it. Kareena is a polished performer, a well-schooled practitioner of the guiles and wiles of a Hindi-film leading lady. Her suitors in this film acquit themselves well too, with Hrithik chewing the scenery (and nibbling on Sanjana in equal measure) as the flamboyant extrovert Prem, and Abhishek managing to hold on to his dignity as the pensive introvert Prem. None of the supporting performers merit special mention, but I did like Reema Lagoo's glamorous new look. See this movie at your own risk, and millions, no doubt, will to give the Barjatyas yet another blockbuster.