Humko Deewana Kar Gaye (You Mesmerise Me) . Review on Humko Deewana Kar Gaye

Films like this one give Bollywood a bad name. Director Raj Kanwar's latest film is abysmal, illogical and for the most part defies credibility.

Now, you might ask, aren't fantasy and fairy tales a big part of the Bollywood genre? Definitely, but bad filmmaking certainly is not.

Set primarily in Canada, Humko Deewana Kar Gaye is a romantic drama focusing on Aditya (Akshay Kumar) and Jia (Katrina Kaif), who meet and fall in love.

The problem is that they are already engaged to other people. How they resolve this dilemma forms the crux of this film. Now how can the director mess up a premise like this, one wonders.

There are so many blunders, where do I start - how about when Aditya insults the honour of a friend's wife. To make up for his faux pas, he sets out to make amends.

Sounds fine, but this is how the situation unfolds. He and Jia are in a shopping mall and they meet his friend by chance.

Aditya inquires about his friend's high school sweetheart and says that she was quite a flirt and slept around with so many guys. His friend informs him that he is now married to the woman in question and storms off.

All fine so far. In the next scene, Aditya and Jia are at a restaurant, contemplating his error and his friend's wife pitches up. How did she know they were there?

She derides him for what he said, without knowing the facts

. He apologises and she storms off.

The next scene - the friend is seen at a sports stadium, down in the dumps. His wife arrives. How did she know he was there?

The game is about to start, but the intrepid wife runs on to the field, grabs the announcer's mike and pleads to her husband to forgive her. The security guards think she's loony and set off to apprehend her.

But, our dashing Romeo Aditya arrives and persuades them otherwise. As the guards wonder whether they've stepped on to the sets of a bad Bollywood movie, he joins the woman on the field and makes an impassioned plea for everyone to find the husband and get him to make up with his wife.

The players, officials, security, TV crew allow this charade to take place without any problem at all. Duh!

Aditya works in the motor industry and is in Canada to undergo training. We are never told what he actually does and never see him in training.

But he does get to take part in a motor rally. This poorly edited sequence is entirely taken from television stock footage, driving a Subaru - he works for Toyota. I give up!!

Does the director take his audience for fools? He seems more interested in shooting music videos, than plot and character development. There are more than eight songs in this two-hour film.

Aside from wasting the talents of a fine cast, it's also a waste of your time.