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U Me Aur Hum (2008) Film rating and Review :
Rating :
Acting – 7/10
Direction – 5/10
Screenplay – 3/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
Tale of two halves
Candies, family shows, diamonds, sea cruises, advertising networks… all ties exploited over the past few weeks, and it’s now time for the real show. It’s time for answers to some questions. Does Ajay Devgan do an Aamir Khan? Is U Me Aur Hum a copy of Nick Cassavetes’s The Notebook? Is there chemistry still between Ajay and Kajol?
The answer to all the above questions is yes/no. Yes, Ajay makes a sensitive directorial debut but the handling is nowhere near as personal as Aamir’s TZP. Yes, U Me Aur Hum takes a lot from The Notebook but it chooses to leave the core love story behind. Yes, the Ajay-Kajol chemistry is still very much there but they sizzle more as a mature couple rather than the love-at-first-sight youngsters (!).
Just like Ajay Devgan the producer has gone in for hazaar brand tie-ups, Ajay Devgan the director too has played safe. That’s why the passionate love story in the original Hollywood flick has been diluted to a much-seen (and long shunned) Bollywood romance game of lying, wooing and losing.
Ajay (Ajay) meets Piya (Kajol) on a sea cruise and must hook her before they ‘land’. He steals her diary, learns all the things she loves – salsa, dogs, the colour white – and soon starts exchanging love quotes with her.
The clichés keep coming – he confesses, she leaves, she comes back and they get married. Intermission.
Thuth be told, Half One is so flat and insipid; things just had to rev up in the second half. And they do, when there’s trouble in paradise for Ajay and Piya. If you have seen or read The Notebook you know what the trouble is and how will all end. But just like you smiled with Ajay and Kajol as they did a Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan in the French Kiss remake Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, you will cry with the two as they do a James Garner and Gena Rowlands.
Just like the two very different halves of U Me Aur Hum, there are many things going for and against the film. The bad news is Ajay Devgan the romantic. He looks and sounds too old for the love-at-first-sight caper. It’s been a decade and the innocence and cheekiness of Pyaar To… is gone. Also, after Aag, he should have thought twice before doing drunken scenes. It’s just not his glass of wine. He is, of course, much better as he grows old and somber.
The music is ahuge letdown. It is Vishal Bhardwaj’s most disappointing work so far and a couple of good songs would have certainly done wonders to the flat first hour.
On the plus side, Kajol is as watchable as ever. She looks fetching in the beginning and as the plot thickens, her histrionics take over. Of the supporting cast, Sumeet Raghavan is very good as the man caught in an unhappy marriage. The rest – Divya Dutta, Karan Khanna and Isha Sharvani – only add to the noise.
Acting – 7/10
Direction – 5/10
Screenplay – 3/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
Tale of two halves
Candies, family shows, diamonds, sea cruises, advertising networks… all ties exploited over the past few weeks, and it’s now time for the real show. It’s time for answers to some questions. Does Ajay Devgan do an Aamir Khan? Is U Me Aur Hum a copy of Nick Cassavetes’s The Notebook? Is there chemistry still between Ajay and Kajol?
The answer to all the above questions is yes/no. Yes, Ajay makes a sensitive directorial debut but the handling is nowhere near as personal as Aamir’s TZP. Yes, U Me Aur Hum takes a lot from The Notebook but it chooses to leave the core love story behind. Yes, the Ajay-Kajol chemistry is still very much there but they sizzle more as a mature couple rather than the love-at-first-sight youngsters (!).
Just like Ajay Devgan the producer has gone in for hazaar brand tie-ups, Ajay Devgan the director too has played safe. That’s why the passionate love story in the original Hollywood flick has been diluted to a much-seen (and long shunned) Bollywood romance game of lying, wooing and losing.
Ajay (Ajay) meets Piya (Kajol) on a sea cruise and must hook her before they ‘land’. He steals her diary, learns all the things she loves – salsa, dogs, the colour white – and soon starts exchanging love quotes with her.
The clichés keep coming – he confesses, she leaves, she comes back and they get married. Intermission.
Thuth be told, Half One is so flat and insipid; things just had to rev up in the second half. And they do, when there’s trouble in paradise for Ajay and Piya. If you have seen or read The Notebook you know what the trouble is and how will all end. But just like you smiled with Ajay and Kajol as they did a Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan in the French Kiss remake Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, you will cry with the two as they do a James Garner and Gena Rowlands.
Just like the two very different halves of U Me Aur Hum, there are many things going for and against the film. The bad news is Ajay Devgan the romantic. He looks and sounds too old for the love-at-first-sight caper. It’s been a decade and the innocence and cheekiness of Pyaar To… is gone. Also, after Aag, he should have thought twice before doing drunken scenes. It’s just not his glass of wine. He is, of course, much better as he grows old and somber.
The music is ahuge letdown. It is Vishal Bhardwaj’s most disappointing work so far and a couple of good songs would have certainly done wonders to the flat first hour.
On the plus side, Kajol is as watchable as ever. She looks fetching in the beginning and as the plot thickens, her histrionics take over. Of the supporting cast, Sumeet Raghavan is very good as the man caught in an unhappy marriage. The rest – Divya Dutta, Karan Khanna and Isha Sharvani – only add to the noise.
U Me Aur Hum is a sad (and borrowed) love story with the promise of hope tied to its tail. How one wished it had better love story at its core for the heart to bleed more.
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