REVIEW: Milenge Milenge (3)

Do you remember annual plays students put up in high school? Everyone faked it, everyone hammed it, everyone's clothes were obviously rented or unearthed from the school's costume department, and the prettiest girl and boy always got to play the main parts. The film reminds you of just that kind of effort.

A sense of despair slowly covers you as you realise that the story has been directly lifted from a John Cusack- Kate Beckinsale romance Serendipity, they do not bother to to change even the currency note (they have $50, this movie uses a Rs.50 note) used. The implausible collection of caricature characters is hateful, right from the South Indian canteen guy, the cartoon dad, the comic-strip 'saccha Mussalman hoon' used books guy, Shahid's friends (one fat, one weird, one girl), Kareena's friend (we don't really know why she's at the store all the time, does she own it, or is it just some art director's fantasy?), Kareena's musician boyfriend, the taxi driver who cheats, to the odd Parsi lady... I lost count.

Shahid and Kareena fans had best stick to Jab We Met.

The nicest thing about the movie is Himesh Reshammiya's refrain, 'Kuch Toh Baaki Hai'.