Cast: Imran Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sharmila Tagore, Yudhishthir Urs,
Shahana Goswami
Rating: **
Advice: It’s not even a date flick, it’s just not going anywhere folks!
Here’s a love story of the Now generation…but sadly it is nowhere near wow! To begin with the film has a vaporous plot and all along it pretends to be a sequence of cute moments. Like two school kids watching Mr India, all agape and reciting the dialogue along with Mogambo. They discover a common chord between them right there and hit
it off. They go to the same school and grow up watching movies from the projector room as the boy’s dad happens to be the owner of the theatre. Predictably they kiss and fondle each other and ‘get together’.
The now grown-up twosome - Aaliya Khan (Deepika Padukone) and Abhay Gulati (Imran Khan) are often found bickering and squabbling affably most evenings on the terrace, swigging some beer and smoking. Welcome to the world of ‘Now’ generation of urban India!
Aaliya and Abhay drive around cutting smart jokes and sharing a good rapport with urchins at traffic signals who chirp ‘I love you sweetie!’ every time the cute couple passes their kerb.
But Ms Aaliya isn’t happy with her perfect world, she wants to ‘take risks’ and ‘see the world’ and be an actor against her mother’s (La Tagore in mul kurtis and trousers) wishes. She sneaks herself into an Australian college to break free.
Ahem! The plot is see through here on. Aaliya gets to Australia and shacks up with Indian siblings – hard-as-nails sister Nadi (Shahana) and her horny yet friendly brother Cyrus (VJ Yudi). Aaliya also lands herself a meaty role in the campus play. While back home her pining boy friend frets and fumes in his father’s office. The only thing he
still enjoys doing is making funny faced sandwiches and kilos of biryani.
Long distance telephone calls only whet Abhay’s jealousy. He takes the next flight out and lands up down under in Australia. By now, Ms Dimples is getting film offers and she feels bogged down by his sudden appearance. She decides to “break up” with him. And if you think, Abhay is now going to find his bearing by setting up his own eatery
and Aaliya is going to start missing him. Bravo! You are as clever as the screenplay & dialogue writer Renuka Kunzru.
On the whole, this is a film that really goes nowhere – even though they actually go down under to foreign shores.
The only thing that works in favour of the film is bootilicious Deepika in snazziest shorts and lover boy Imran with those melting brown eyes. The lead couple is totally engaging and makes the whole film a tolerable watch.
Veterans Navin Nischol, Sharmila Tagore and Lilette Dubey pitch adequately. Shahana Goswami in beach gear tries to be hip and Yudi in silk dressing gown tries to be cool – and they try hard.
As far as debutant Danish Aslam is concerned, he manages to conjure up quick fire moments like Abhay chiding Aaliya about going off to Australia to pursue a course in Mass Communication saying,” Do(he and Aaliya’s mom) logon se toh communicate nahi kar payi tum…” but these are like soap bubbles – so fragile and so momentary.
Andre Menezes’ cinematography is admirable but Vishal Shekhar’s music and Prasoon Joshi lyrics do nothing to enhance the film’s appeal.
Break Ke Baad …kya?...nothing much really!!!
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