FIRST THINGS first. People love to hate Himesh Reshammiya, and unfortunately, this film offers them plenty of fodder to snigger and be unkind to him. It’s such a waste to see someone who has an unique sound fall prey to ambition and join the wannabe actor brigade.
Himesh plays the ‘kewl’ popular radio jockey Vivaan who plays ‘love guru’ on his radio show, when his own life is a mess (his wife, newcomer Sonal Sehgal, asks for divorce right at the start of the film). A vivacious woman (Shernaz Treasurywala) enters his life and falls in love with him. The film is about a man caught between two women. Should be simple, right? An obsessive ex-wife who is jealous of his new girlfriend, a new girlfriend unsure about the feelings he has for his ex, and then the man himself. But there is no conflict, no drama, which in turn means, this film is very tepid, and when you see the ham-handed treatment of the subject, you know someone has set it up for sniggers instead of appreciation.
All through the film the writer-director tells us how modern the triangle is through platitudes and phrases from pop psychology, social networking sites and self- help books: ego hassles, confused, complicated relationships, relationship status, compatibility, closure, die-hard romantic and so on. It’s annoying to hear a character say, ‘l am in denial’ not once but several times through the bollywood movie. The other characters are similarly reduced to caricatures and you wonder why Paresh Rawal wasted his precious fifteen minutes. The music is one saving grace of the film but the rest of it borders so much on the ridiculous that we come away hoping someone will box Himesh’s ears and tell him to quit acting and stick to his unique brand of music.
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