KYUN! HO GAYA NA BORE!!!. Review on Kyun! Ho Gaya Na

KYUN! HO GAYA NA??...what would the title suggest to a person who hasn?t seen the movie???that probably it is a mushy-mushy love story of a couple that completely dislikes each others ways but eventually fall in LOVE-practically the most beautiful feeling on earth. But, well, mind you, this is only when the person hasn?t seen the movie?Ask me-For me the title should have been ?Kyon! Ho Gaya Na?.BORE!?

No offence meant to any guy or gal who could perhaps relate to the movie or liked the happening chemistry between the off-screen couple of Ash-Vivek, but for me the movie was, to put it simply, a disaster on the filmmaker?s part. More than chemistry it is the history of the couple?s real life romance that attracted people to the theatres. The much-hyped kiss between the two is a blink ? and ? you - miss kind of a sequence.

To quote the director of the movie himself, ?the character of Vivek is that of a monster?. He lies to his mom for competing in car rallies, is adventurous, full of pranks and basically looks and lives life in the lighter side. Is such a person rightfully a monster? Well, may be slightly impish so to say, but monster is too brutal a word to use. In the beginning of the movie, Arjun (Oberoi) is portrayed as a practical guy who does not believe in the institution of love. He is a person who has given the duty of finding a wife for him to his parents?in other words has willingly accepted to have an arranged marriage. He has seen his parents in a happy marriage and wants the same for himself. But somehow the writer of the movie considers this a crime. The movie is here to show it to the world that in today?s generation, anyone who goes for an arranged marriage is a fool. One has to fall in love ? come what may.

Diya(Ash) is a pretty little girl-next-door who had lost her mother in her childhood and will marry a guy only when love strikes the two. She happens to come to Mumbai to give some exams and stays at his dad?s friend?s place. Now this uncle of hers has a son, Arjun she falls in love with but unfortunately he hasn?t ever ?seen her like that?. Ironically, Diya is the girl Arjun?s parents want him to marry. And within all this chaos and confusion is the entry of Ash?s messiah, apna Big B. Uncle, as he is called, runs an orphanage, where dear Diya helps him out. Now, uncle takes Diya away from Mumbai and I don?t know what urges him, but poor Arjun follows them ?Diya ko manane ke liye?. The writer has tried to drag him till there so that he, forcibly, accepts his love for Diya-----just soooooo strange.

Now if we sit to analyze our Big B?s character in the movie, it is probably the worst role offered to him in the past few years. It surely cuts a sorry figure. The child inside him is always at work carrying out silly pranks on the kids at his orphanage. His entry is only towards the interval and his overall role a disappointment. His over the top character is probably there to add a comic element to the movie, but it makes you rather cry in pain. Especially his catchphrase ?C?mon Charlie? got onto my nerves. The kind of public persona he holds in real life is completely contrasting to the one in the movie. One should try different roles but this one was definitely not made for Mr. Bachchan. It would have been better justified if portrayed by Mr. Anupam Kher. To cut the long story short, eventually Arjun dear realizes his immense love for Diya and that she is the girl whom he wants to marry.

Is this all that a man is born to do? Fall in love, fight all odds to get the girl, get married??it all sounds so impractical and frivolous. Its high time directors realize their immense responsibility as members of the film fraternity. Movies are a reflection of our society and they should come up with sensible cinema-I talk of not serious but sensible cinema. Whether it is a comedy or drama, it should be entertaining and worth watching. Being myself a teenager and one of the 21st century, I would like to tell Mr. Sameer Karnik that I?m sure he will do very good in any other field he takes up but unfortunately he is not made for making movies. If in future he has an urge to re-traverse this path, he should think twice and please come up with a sensible movie.

P.S. The only thing worth seeing in the movie is probably its backdrop scenery. Good work, cinematographer