Review : Bachna Ae Haseeno
Movie: Bachna Ae Haseeno;
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone, Minissha Lamba; Director:
Siddharth Anand
Lyricist - Anvita Dutt
Guptan. Music Director - Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani.
Rating: ****
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Yet another Yashraj’s
product, Bachna Ae Haseeno, is a flick which would be especially liked
by the youth. This romantic movie deals with a young guy Ranbir, who falls
in love with 3 ladies at different time, first, when he is in HSC (1996),
second when he starts working with a company in Mumbai (2002) and third
when he moves to Australia.
Tte promise that Ranbir
Kapoor displayed in Saawariya , his debut venture, has been duly fulfilled
in this breezy, urbane tale of love and longing, set against a come-of-age
backdrop of 21st century twenty-something Indians. Here is a crackling
bunch of gals and guys who mirror the mores and manners of modern India,
even as they re-live the traditional Bollywood fable of ishq-vishq, pyar-mohabbat
. And leading the bratpack -- or should we say, carrying the film through
-- is the smart, sassy, superbly relaxed Bratboy, Ranbir Kapoor who amply
proves he's a complete natural before the arclights. Truly, a chip off
the old block (Rishi Kapoor).
The guy breaks heart of
first 2 girls so badly and he never realizes it until his third girlfriend
breaks his heart and makes him suffer the pain associated with a spilt
up.
The movie starts with
a guy going back to his flashback and taking us to Switzerland where he
had fallen in love for the first time (with Minnisha Lamba). The director
had tried very hard to show us that it was actually 1996 but somehow it
feels, the actors looked lot older than those 18 year olds.
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| 2nd story takes place
in 2002, with Bipasha Basu. The guy is shown working for Microsoft’s gaming
section. Okay, now here the guy looks younger whereas Bipasha looks older.
It is a kind of mismatch but here, there are few comedy scenes and the
performance looks much real. Especially, Bipasha has really done a wonderful
job.
Now, year 2007, the guy
is in Sydney where he meets Deepika Padukone. There is indeed some kind
of spark between Ranbir and Deepika. Maybe being a real life couple has
helped them to showcase a beautiful chemistry on the celluloid. Deepika
certainly has done justice with her character.
The movie seems quite
ok in the first half but as it reaches interval, the whole movie becomes
very predictable. The second half is emotional and a bit too long. The
execution of the script by the director especially in the second half could
have been better. The editing too could have been much crisper. As expected
by the Yashraj productions, the music is superb, especially two songs,
the classic Bachna Ae Haseeno and Khuda Jaane, really stand out. The cinematography
is fantastic; the locales of Australia and Italy have been beautifully
captured.On the acting front, Ranbir looks pretty good though he was kind
of over the board in first story but overall he has done a good job. Minnisha
again goes overboard like Ranbir in first story but later it is all good.
Bipasha despite of looking bit older in front of Ranbir is the best of
the lot. Deepika too is good. Actually, she did not have much to do.
The movie could have been
made much better, in terms of execution, story et al. The concept of 1
guy falling in love with 3 girls is great but the way it is turned out
is bad. They could have made it thorough romantic comedy flick rather than
adding some drama and all.
Nevertheless, go, grab
some fun. And a dekko at Bollywood's next big thing, Ranbir Kapoor. |
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