KYON AAYI HAI?
Hindi films are usually quite verbose, but this one goes a step ahead— it tells and then shows. Like, if a character says that ever since he was born, girls turned away from him, there is a shot of three babies in a crib and two of them turning away… the shot holds for sometime. You get the point, but director Milap Zaveri shows the boy being rejected by girls in school and then teenagers too.
But the crucial piece of information—why is he such a turn-off—is never explained. Does he have bad breath? Body odour? Rajesh Parekh (Ritesh Deshmukh) does manage to turn the audience off, because when he is not talking (and telling us what we can already see!) he is whining, or he is weeping, or he is goofing off with best friend Kaushal (Vishal Malhotra), who is obsessed with pornography—this generates a lame running game involving a porn DVD.
Still, Tara, a girl from Venus (Jacqueline Fernandez) visiting Earth to discover what Love is all about, chooses to land in Rajesh’s lap. It is supposedly an advanced civilization—Tara can do some magic tricks—but the girl is dressed in bad cabaret dancer costume, and came to another planet without preparation. Don’t they have the intergalactic equivalent of Google on Venus?
Rajesh lives in a palace, but works as Farah Khan’s (as herself) third assistant and puts up with mistreatment, like tea being spat on his face. He falls in love with the sister (Sonal Sehgal) of the film’s ‘superstar’ Desh (Ruslaan Mumtaz), but of course, she turns him down. So he falls in love with the alien, but to teach her about love, pushes her into Desh’s arms.
Don’t even ask why, this is not the kind of film that makes sense. How did Zaveri (who preens on screen a couple of times) even get to make it, and garner a great deal of publicity for it? After Aladin and now this Jaane Kahan… Ritesh Deshmukh must have figured out that he is better off doing multi-starrer comedies; one more Sad Sack act and his career will fly to Venus. If there is an award for most annoying performance, it should go to Vishal Malhotra. And as for the one-expression-wonder Jacqueline Fernandez, maybe she could go to Mars and learn how to act.
Pretty typical movie with standard story line....Boman as always makes this movie what it is!
Posted by: Interval | 04/09/2010 at 11:41 PM