Nov 11, 2002 08:58 PM
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(Updated Nov 11, 2002 08:58 PM)
By now you would probabaly have guessed Na Tum Jano Na Hum is an absolute dud at the box office.
The problem with the movie is that its premise is so utterly far fetched and corny that one really wonders how Pantaloon could agree to put money into this script.
Esha Deol plays a ditzy sixteen year old who has finished school and is back home to basically get hitched to the first guy she can. And well as a career she assists her father in his jewallary shop. Hritik Roshan is a photgrapher who again dreams of true love while Saif Ali Khan is an urban rich playboy who happens to be Hritk's best friend. Ditzy Esha meets Hritik on a radio talk show and well they both decide that they like each other and start wrting to each other. Oh and the postal offices of India would love this movie. No glitches, letters reaching on time. Esha suddenly decides to shoot a music video for her father's jewallary company so photographer who just happends to be Hritik but she does not know and nither does he. If this confuses you, I really dont blame you for it did to me.
The problem is that Arjun Sablok tried to make a youth centric romance. However, he has tried so hard to infuse candy floss that by the end the result is a diabetic's nightmare. The film's dilougues and screenplay are so downright corny that they make you cringe. More-so, the way Saif and Hritik hold each other makes you wonder whether they are gay. The film has one fourth the logic that is present in a David Dhawan comedy and to top it all it drags and drags and drags. Quite frankly, this film seems to be targetted at 12 year old girls.
The charecterisation is inconsistant and some of the charector's actions and desicions make no sense what soever.
Performance wise Hritik Roshan is terrible and sissy like. Saif Ali Khan is ok in a limited role. Esha Deol is quite good but hampered by her charecterisation. She is definately far better in this film then in her first film.
The music is absolutely worthless and the only redeeming factor is the camera work and cinemotography but frankly they do not do much to make NTNHJ even remotely watchable.
Bottomline: Watch paint try instead.
