Apr 28, 2006 11:14 PM
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(Updated Apr 28, 2006 11:16 PM)
Shaadi Se Pehle suffers because Satish Kausik seems completely ill at ease handling a comic caper. The story he has opted for had scope for a lot of drama, but the writing is so routine that the viewer can actually guess what the next sequence would be like. Even the dialogues are outright predictable.
The director's intentions get further diluted because the screenplay writing has loopholes aplenty. Even otherwise, the writers have relied too heavily on cliches to convey what they intend conveying. Besides, the film moves at a snail's pace, gathers momentum, slows down again and picks up yet again towards the pre-climax. Now, this is all the more disturbing for the viewer who in any case has been subjected to an oft-repeated storyline.
The music is no great shakes either.Cinematography is alright.
Of the performances, Akshay Khanna does make an effort to enact his part with conviction. Mallika does not impress, partly due to a half-baked characterisation. Ayesha is just about okay.
A bit on the story
Ashish Kapoor (Akshaye Khanna) is an absolute simpleton in love with a rich girl Rani (Ayesha Takia). Going by the set norms, the couple dream to tie the knot and live in the fairytale world where everything is ‘happily ever after’.
But like every love story, this one also has a share of setbacks.
Though termed as a creative genius by his advertising agency, Ashish is a raving hypochondriac. His paranoid behaviour leaves him with frayed nerves at the slightest tension. And there is just one remedy – to pop a pill.
The story begins to roll when Ashish mistakenly starts believing that he has cancer after overhearing his doctor’s conversation on the phone.
Coming face to face with reality, Ashish decides to brake up his engagement with Rani to give her a better life though he still loves her immensely.
And thus he begins to do things very un-Ashish like – from getting drunk to wearing the most flashing clothes and from the shy-guy he becomes the Casanova!
But Rani and her family fail all his attempts to break up the engagement till they find him involvement with a sexy, international model Sania (Mallika Sherawat). And thus begin the problems… for Rani, for the storyline and for we the audience!
Ashish’s gameplan works and Rani begins to hate him. She agrees to marriage Rohit (Aftab Shivdasani), Ashish’s friend, who always harboured a crush for Rani.
Ashish, though hurt, heaves the sigh of relief till he gets a shock of his life by realizing that Sania, whom he was using for going away from Rani, is deeply in love with him. And to add to his woes, she is also the sister of an international don Anna (Sunil Shetty) who puts all his guns on him to marry his sister with no return.
And as the movie unfolds with its mix-ups and twists, Ashish learns that he doesn’t suffer from cancer.
He has no escape... no support... no hope... he wants to return to Rani, who is now getting set to marry Rohit. He has no one to blame but himself.
How can he undo a situation that he himself has created?
So where does Ashish go Shaadi Se Pehle? Well, you need not work too hard to guess that one!
All up Shaadi Se Pehle is a complete letdown.
