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 Aisha is based on Jane Austin’s
popular novel Emma. Western filmmakers have attempted the big screen
versions of Emma before and Rajshree Ojha has come up with a competent
if not a fabulous Indianised version of the same with Aisha.
The film narrates the tale of Aisha (Sonam Kapoor) who believes in
match-making as a hobby and follows it passionately. When she is done
with match making of her aunt, Aisha takes a new entrant to her world as
her next project. The girl is Shefali (Amrita Puri) and is from a
smaller town and just reached Delhi to find herself a suitor. Aisha goes
about changing the small town girl into someone more like her and then
tries setting her up with a childhood friend Randhir (Cyrus Sahukar).
Randhir loves Aisha and not Shefali and when Aisha gets to know this,
blanks him out of her life. Aisha’s best friend Pinky Bose (Ira Dubey)
finds a mate in Randhir and walks out on Aisha. In the meantime Aisha
moves on to set Shefali up with another guy. All this while her
childhood friend Arjun (Abhay Deol) tries to tell her that she is just
making things worse for Shefali. By the time Aisha realizes things, it
is quite late.
The problem with Aisha is that it is supposed to be a romantic comedy
but it does not draw any emotions from the audience. The story stays
superficial and there are no scenes – even the climax scene when Aisha
knows she is in love – that are interesting enough. Also the scenes
which act as a catalyst to the change in Aisha’s outlook are completely
mistimed and not built well. Clearly the issue is with the screenplay.
The dialogues are good though.
Technically the film is shot well and makes Delhi looks good. The
costumes are a high point of the film and it will manage to set quite a
few fashion trends. The music is good too.
On a scale of performances Sonam scores decent. Abhay Deol does his
job well, though we wish we could have seen more of him. Ira Dubey,
Arunoday Singh and Lisa Haydon are efficient. The real scene stealer
though is Amrita Puri. She will bring a smile on your faces every time
she comes on screen.
However despite numerous pluses, the minuses bough Aisha down in
regular intervals and the two hour running time also appears tedious! So
take your call, if you want to watch a light breezy entertainer that
doesn’t really appeal to your heart but is beautiful to watch, go for
Aisha.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5*
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Amrita Puri, Lisa Haydon, Ira Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar and Arunoday Singh
Director: Rajshree Ojha
Sampurn Wire
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