Kya Love Story Hai

by Seo Mumbai

The much-publicised Kareena Kapoor item number is dispensed with right at the start. it has no connection with the rest of the film. Giving up on Kya Love Story Hai at this point would make perfect sense,because even in a crowd of bad films, this yawn-inducer could compete for many razzies.

The much-publicised Kareena Kapoor item number is dispensed with right at the start. it has no connection with the rest of the film. Giving up on Kya Love Story Hai at this point would make perfect sense,because even in a crowd of bad films, this yawn-inducer could compete for many razzies.

It definitely has the worst comedy track ever-in which two desperate blokes, who call themselves "hunters" hit on anything that moves and get slapped. One gag or two would have been enough, these two (unidentified actors) and an accompanying black dwarf (the film is set in South Africa , hence the black and blonde population!) get almost a film-within-the-film to themselves. The way blacks are portrayed would have invited law suits anywhere else!

Arjun (Tusshar) falls in love with Kajal and cannot tell her. If this sounds like Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai, it’s because director Lovely Singh was an assistant for that one. Didn’t Tusshar see any similarities in the script (if there was one!) before he signed up? Anyway, he wears this hang dog look all the time, but Kajal never guesses, girls in films are so imperceptive! She thinks the love letter she has peeked at is for someone else, and tells him girls would only fall for a man with ambition and an identity and not a rich slacker like him.

Arjun flies off to Mumbai immediately in search of fame and fortune, but by the time he returns with both (mercifully, earned off screen), Kajal is engaged to Ranveer (Karan Hukku), who wants to marry her because mummy-said so. otherwise he prefers his cell phone to her any day!

While attending a friend’s wedding, Kajal hangs out with both guys and eventually the cell phone dude realises that there is more to the Kajal-Arjun friendship than platonic hugs.

Tusshar does the song-and-dance numbers well, there’s not much else in the role. Ayesha Takia is overweight and it shows glaringly in close-ups. she catches one ‘cute’ wide smile expression and repeats it ad nauseum; while Karan Hukku looks as if his granite jaw would crack if he even attempted something like an expression!