U Me aur Hum is a film which makes you feel stupid, if not anything else. It seems so much like a home production; it improves the plight
of the soap operas on T.V. making them look more glossy and glamorous…
Well the film has no script and neither any message. Who said, this film was about ‘Alzheimer’s’ disease. I think this film is about ‘flop jokes’ disease which caught the fantasy of the scriptwriters in this film.
Jokes apart, I fail to understand how Dr Ajay, M.D. (Psychiatry) falls so terribly short of being able to handle his mentally ill wife’s condition. I think the M.D. didn’t educate him on how to deal with such situations. I think a Ph.D (Alzheimer’s) might help. No seriously, even an ignorant, rustic man living far away for the ‘educated world’ would have done better in dealing with his wife.
Even the scene, when his patient Ms. Joshi sees him with his wife at the ‘Nirvana’ hospital (or was it a 5 star International Hotel??!!) and Mr. Ajay looks at her with despair, speaks of the whole ‘cause’ of accepting ‘mental disease’ as another form of disease in such bad light….
As a director, Ajay Devgan hasn’t really been able to capture the emotions effectively, esp. in scenes which involve group performance/dance where everybody is just loosely captured without any focus. After watching this film, my respect for Aamir Khan’s directorial debut became a little more. The only sensitively handled scene was when Ajay leaves Kajol at Nirvana and tries to make her comfortable before leaving from there.
Lastly, films which deals with the trauma associated with living with a mentally ill person, whether in ‘Beautiful Mind’ or ‘Maine Gandhi ko Nahin Maara’ or our very recent ‘Taare Zameen Par’ takes the audience gently through the entire period of medication/rehab; not move back and forth 25 years like in this one.
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