Monday, September 18, 2006

Pyaar ke side effects: review

If you thought Bollywood could only produce cliched love stories, think again. There are some directors, like Saket Choudhary, bent on proving you wrong. The story indeed is passe, with the girl eager to marry and the boy dubious about commitment, but the wrapping is new and delightful.
The perfectionist Rahul Bose teams up with the whistling crowd's favorite Mallika Sherawat in an uncanny but well oiled duo. The movie takes you through the ups and downs of a relationship in a novel way, with special stress on the "side effects".
All boys get ready to say "I love you" a hundred times a day, and sit through long shopping hours, and the girls, be ready to have boys with short attention spans, ready to have all but responsibility. The subtleties of a regular relationship are brought out so beautifully; that for once you realize love might have so many 'side effects'. The humor is witty, the acting decent, the narration gentle and the flow smooth. No fancy locations, no long love songs, its a nice watch in an otherwise boring collection of movies released this week.

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