Aug 16, 2008 11:01 AM
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In short a complete, chocolate coated TEEN FLICK!
India goes the America way! Hollywood till date has an astounding rate of producing teen flicks and I would go further and state that it has been a launchpad of faces like Reese Witherspoon(Legally Blonde Series), Denise Richards, Mena Suvari(American Beauty), Anne Hathaway(The Princess Diary) etc etc. And believe me the amount of mush generated is directly equivalent to the sale of hankies:)
Here we are, India's own answer to Teen Flicks, **BACHANA AE HASEENO!
I am in no way criticising the film but am actually making a mental note that we have also reached the stage where our audiences have accepted a huge DOSE of mushy romanticism. **Good looking hunk RANBIR KAPOOR, gorgeous babes BIPASHA BASU, DEEPIKA and also a girl - next - door MINISHAA LAMBA. The crux of the story;
Raj is a gaming software engineer and is brash, KILLER, at the same time a NO - Do - GOODER! Meaning scoring hits by way of beautiful girls is his agenda with NO STRINGS ATTACHED! Time for being NOSTALGIC! This will definitelty connect with the male populace! Point no. 1 scored by Siddhartha Anand in gaining the male thumbs up! Chauvinistic pigs the male lot:)
Arrogant man with crfty mind meets cute innocent girl next door with MOON in her eyes and lands her into his lap with DDLJ( Dilwale Dulhaniyaa Le Jayenge) kind of romance and BOOM! sparks fly, train timings go haywire and then theres hell on wheels. Switzerland backdrop with IMPORTED COWS, IMPORTED GRASS etc etc. Sounds familiar. Stink is he ditches after a brief lip lock and moment of truth revelation at the ariport scene! TEAR JERKER! point No. 2 scored by Siddhartha Anand with the women folk this time! JERK.
Arrogant man is high flying with being a genius in software of gaming and is vehemently getting good at playing games of a different kind and BANG! Bips the hot and gorgeous Basu lands right next door to him and plonks herself, after a little serious lip lock, right into his bed! Point no 3 for males by SA! WOW. its a drool pool.
God tussi masti de mood me ho! ho ho ho merry xmas and the bells rinigng here are WEDDING BELLS and then our hero goes HELLS BELLS!(Admit one thing this is all too familiar territory for a lot of guys out there. Main Chup.). Our man digs into all kinds of situation wriggling scenarios and finally dumps the hot babe to fly away to SYDNEY!
Arrogant man not learned his lesson has to meet a BISON of the she type:) Enter Deepika. Sweet dimples, focussed hard as nails todays replica of an Indo American venture of an independent woman! Point no. 4 scored for SA for the women folk! Our man who used to growl strtas to mumble and fumble and then purrss. wow nice change! The she growls and is not mushy and is a complete head strong lady with a lot of "I Got it I will flaunt it" attitude. Nudge - No Budge!1 Romance time . Candle lit fountain side, Not so arrogant man, down on one knee and a SOLITAIRE in hand asking for another hand! Nudge - No BUDGE! Instead of IKRAAR there is TAKRAR. A huge monolgue of "Tum joke kar rahe ho?" "Aisa karke tum mujhe mere raste se defocus kar rahe ho!" Please let me do what I want and you get outta my way!
Flashes of the past haunt the arrogance turned to mush man! He rebels against the worldy wise thoughts and goes back to his haunting past to beg forgiveness for the WRONGS that he has done! It actually reminded me of an ad of TATA SKY where the darshan of all the gods right to your drawing rooms states a cafe where a group of guys are chatting having fun! One of them checks a girl out and clicks her snap and shows it to his friends. His friend quips by replying " DUDE, yeh paap hai!" Isko laga dala to life jhinga lala! Point no. 5 scored by SA for the junta!
Reformed man goes back. Begs forgiveness first with a sardarni(girl next door) with a song and dance and a tear jerking monolgue of what I would have easily had years ago, you are punishing your hubby with today! sheesh, missh. shorry a lot of tears here. Happy ending! Hubby of today united by man of yesterday! Point no. lost count sorry. SA is scoring like the rain in Mumbai!
Next on agenda is the hot cuppa coffee. Bips. eeps. she is now a hard boiled nut, nobody can scratch my surface and my mask kinda woman SHREYA! Shreya shreiks, punishes but does not let anyone penetrate . her mind! She is turned to stone. Our reformed man appears out of nowhere, follows her to Italy and guess what? Lands a job as her PA! I just went APe! No labour laws here! Easy money! Our man launders, simmers, shivers and shakes those hippers. but to no avail. Our stone turned woman is not going to stun and shun! Off he goes to airport and voila! our lady in stone has turned a new leaf! She is cho chweet! Check! she is the hot name in town, Check! She is turned a new leaf, Check!
Checking man! bot the script but the women!:)
Alls well that ends well! Shakespeares la la land! This is where I guess I keep my MOUTH SHUT!
Watch it if you must. Ranbir is good. The women are too good. The locations are ecstatic. The camera is fantastic! Grab the popcorn, leave your grey cells where you can find them later after 175 minutes!
TEENS will delight in this caper!
