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 Samir (Salman) and Raina (Kareena) are married and settled in
Melbourne, Australia. What started of as a loving relationship which
lead to a quick marriage between the two has now turned into a
complicated situation what with Samir facing major hurdles in his
career to some wrong work decisions that he had taken. Raina is working
as a waitress to support their house. Jobless Samir gets an opportunity
to work in Singapore and make a new beginning.
He takes Raina along
with him but only to tell her at the airport that he has booked her
ticket for India to go back to his parents and that he will come back
to her once things fall in place in his career. After Samir catches his
flight for Singapore, a dejected and sad, Raina keeps waiting at the
airport lounge right till the final boarding announcement for her
flight to India comes in. A bar tender at the cafeteria in the
departure lounge, Akash (Sohail) sees her plight and offers help. He
falls for her instantly but only to realize she is married. Raina gets
confused whether to go to India or stay back in Australia. Just then,
help comes in form of her friend Nina (Nauheed) who arranges for a job
through a friend (Mahek Chahal) and Raina decides to stay back.
Incidentally, Raina gets a job at the jewellery shop situated bang
opposite of that of Akash’s café. Gradually friendship grows between
the two. But what happens after Samir arrives back to take Raina along
with him to Singapore forms the rest of the film.
Debutante writer-director Prem Soni must be called truly lucky to
get a top line lead pair of Salman – Kareena and a reasonably good
budget basing his film completely in Melbourne. While his film begins
well, establishing his main characters and their issues without much
deviation to sub plots, he fumbles in the second half. While there are
a few extremely well handled and well penned sequences in the second
half, but the points that the film downhill are – unconvincing
situations, lack of depth in emotional issues, too simplistic solutions
and most importantly you feel zero sympathy for Mr. Khanna (Salman) or
Mrs Khanna (Kareena) or even Akash (Sohail). The drama is just not
engaging towards the climax. The actors however have risen above the
script and have pitched in wonderful performances.
Salman looks smashing and shows he can play a serious romantic role
extremely well too. Kareena looks WOW and acts superbly, especially in
the emotional scenes. Sohail in what one may call one of his career
best roles does complete justice to his character and rises much above
his written role. Yash Tonk aids him perfectly. He is hilarious in the
second half especially in his scenes with Salman. Nauheed and Mahek
Chahal (last seen as the gangster’s moll in Wanted) add glam quotient
and act ably. Bappi Lahiri is hilarious as the jewellery shop owner.
Deepika Padukone in a special appearance has nothing much to do.
Sajid Wajid’s music is very good and has been well incorporated in
the film. Also, the use of RD Burman’s song sung by Amit Kumar – Bade
Achche Lagte Hai has been made smartly use of two times in the film.
As you come out of the film, you do keep feeling that film could
have been much better had the second half been handled well. But
overall its not a bad film and you won’t regret your time wasted watching it.
Rating: 2 out of 5*
Starring: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sohail Khan, Mahek Chahal, Nauheed Cyrusi, Yash Tonk and Bappi Lahiri
Director: Prem Soni
Sampurn Media
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