Thursday, June 21, 2007

Movie Review - Pyaar Ke Side Effects (2007)

It's a rare treat these days to get such different themes of movies instead of the same old "dishoom-dishoom" or the typical "Yash Chopra triangle or rather repeated Switz locales". That statement best describes Saket Choudhary's debut film "Pyaar ke side effects". With a cast comprising Art hero, Rahul Bose and "Mayya Mayya" Malika Sherawat, and more, the film boasts of good performances better than the nightmare that was "Bheja Fry".

We are introduced to a couple [Bose and Sherawat], who question each other's comittment to marriage. It's when Bose starts to go haywire and come up with a paniking like answer in order to pay attention to the cricket match than his own girlfriend. Bose then narrates to us his flashback to a wedding where Trisha is getting married (duh). Bose himself is an RJ for that same wedding and decides to take a break from all the rapping and whatnot. But when he leaves the wedding, he finds that the bride too escaped from her wedding as she didn't feel ready for comittment. Years later, Bose itnroduces us to his friends, his wise sister, brother-in-law, roommate who can't get a date and Trisha's evil friend (ala Dracula). The rest of the film deals with what a typical American romantic comedy goes with.

While the lead actors were great, the plot was resemblent to some videshi movies seen countless number of times. But the scripting and plot is different and suited for a desi audience at least in my humble opinion. The only con I had with the film is that second fiddle heroine (baby doll or something), she was god damn awful. Her lips and wooden face was unbearable to watch.

Otherwise, have a ball and watch the film. You won't be disappointed.

Rating: ***

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