Jan 30, 2007 09:19 AM
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I know that it is a bit too late to write about PKSE. But blame it to my late entry into mouthshut......
Good. The film is good. And unexpectedly, Mallika is better. Acting against Rahul Bose, she does a good job making audiences forget about her other assets.
In his debut film, Pyar Ke Side Effects, director Saket Choudhary impresses with his engaging storytelling. Its about love, courtship, marriage and importantly, side effects of all these.
In Delhi, a not-so-sure-about-her-choice girl Trisha (Mallika) decides to run away from her shaadi and a DJ-who is also playing music in Shaadis for some extra bucks-Sid (Rahul Bose) tries to stop her. But she has to run, so she runs.
Cut to Mumbai. Trsiha meets Sid and gradually, romance blossoms. Showing all the masculine symptoms, Sid gets caught in the dilemma of life long commitment. Love happens, so is hatred due to the skirmish between Trisha-Sid and Sid-Trisha's father and finally, as we all know its shaadi, that wins.
Although predictable, the film makes you to sit through it. It is packed with all the necessary ingredients that are required to make urban men and women relate to it. Rahul Bose is at ease, as usual. Mallika is amazingly natural and impressive. I watched her 'Murder' a few days after I watched 'Pyar Ke Side Effects'. In 'Murder' she looks awful and acts awfully. I do not understand why male fraternity went crazy about her. I mean, there is something far more necessary than body dimensions. Well, body dimensions are also to be taken a note of, because that is where differentiation and primitive instincts come in. But certainly not at the cost of propriety of ex-pressions. Watching Mallika in this movie was a real surprise.
Ranvir Sheorey needs special mention. He is a riot. In his role as Nanu - a character inspired from Hugh Grant's messy roommate in Notting Hill, Ranvir literally makes you roll off the chair. He has got some meaty lines and scenes and he does full justice to it.
Songs are just where they are needed and in a length that does not make you search for the special faces in the auditorium. Supporting cast is also good.
The only thing that I often ponder over is that, generally in all movies related to love, relations, sexuality its male point of view that is highlighted. It would be nice to watch a movie with female point of view. Males' point of view is amply clear by now. Commitment phobia, polygamous nature and still love exists and hurts. What happens to women? Are they all really monogamous? What about their sexuality? What are they by nature and what are they by social conditioning?
Let's wait for a movie to come. By the time, you can certainly enjoy 'Pyar ke side effects.'
cheers!!
utpal
