Friday Releases – 16^th Feb’12

Continuing with my series where I express my opinion / expectation on the Friday releases as a movie goer.

Let’s take a quick look at last week’s release – Ek main or Ekk tu.

I was (once again) bang on with my prediction.

Movie was a perfect date flick, released at the appropriate time around Valentine, which indeed added on to the business aspect of the movie.

Movie is not exactly a rom-com, it’s a mix between a rom-com and coming-of-age, but the fun quotient is maintained throughout the movie, through the witty dialogues, style of narrative and the comic timing of the principal cast.

It’s probably one of the best performances of Imran Khan, his comic timing is great and goes well with his poker faced dialogue delivery. In this movie he has acted differently than his past few rom-coms, in a mould he has been getting type cast. In Indian film’s the character underplaying the role usually gets overshadowed by the other vivacious lead, while here surprisingly Imran holds himself well enough, so much so that when the movie ends it’s his character you take along…which goes to Imran’s credit.

Like his contemporary Ranbir Kapoor, he may not have done a Rocket Singh – Salesman of the year, Wake up Sid or Rockstar, but this movie alongside the upcoming Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru ki Bijli ka Mandola seems like a step in a right direction as far as variation in his characters/roles/movies go. Though he earlier tried to be different in Luck & Kidnap, an experiment which backfired due to reasons best left unsaid.

Kareena Kapoor plays the character in her usually bubbly self…which she’s best in. Her role is another version of Geet of Jab we met.

Baoman Irani and especially Ratna Pathak Shah, in her Sarabhai mould, add punch to the proceedings.

Credit should also go the debutant director – Shakun Batra – for his refreshing style of narration and for being adventurous enough to end a feel good movie in an unconventional way.

Music by Amit trivedi and lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya go perfectly well with the moods and flow of the movie.

And one thing, movie is certainly not a remake of - What happens in Vegas

Overall, it’s worth a dekko.