 Sonia (Ishita Arun), Tina (Tejaswini Kolhapure), Puja (Gauri Karnik)
and Om (Rohit Bhatia) are four home-mates in Dubai. They together share
a huge apartment and are platonic best friends. While Puja is a host on
an FM channel called Radio Hum, Tina is a stage actress, Sonia runs a
boutique, and Om works in a corporate set up.
While outwardly the four
appear to live a carefree and modern lifestyle, there are many chinks
in their respective armors. Puja wants to be the host of her own show,
which she would like to call "Puja at 8", but for that she may have to
compromise and spend a night with her boss (Harsh Chhaya), at the same
time she has promised her conservative India-based parents that she
will meet the boy of their choice and settle with him. Tina's skeleton
in the closet contains her alcoholic dad (Om Puri), who is always
asking her for money, though Tina would prefer to avoid him and never
see him again, she has no option but deal with him whenever he suddenly
shows up in their home unannounced; Sonia's only male client, Rohit
(Kiran Janjani) thinks she is hot and wants to marry her, however,
Rohit is known as a womanizer and his affairs only last for a few
nights. Om was in love with Shama (Dia Mirza) when he was in India, but
then she had got married to Pawan. Now Shama and her daughter are in
Dubai and both are about to re-kindle their romance for each other, not
knowing that Pawan himself is on his way there. As problems arise, they
tend to take a toll in their friendship as they start drifting apart.
Finally it all boils down to a climax on the New Years' Day.
The film attempts to be a modern day take on friendships amongst
today’s youth ala Dil Chahta Hai. While the friendship chemistry
amongst the four friends has come out naturally well and some small
sequences and lines shared amongst them have come out very
identifiable, the overall impact is missing. The comic track between
Tejaswini and Ali Asgar also falls completely flat. The culmination of
Kiran and Ishita Arun’s story is unintentionally hilarious. Director
Ajai Sinha who is a popular name in television circuit as a director
who is a master in handling human emotions is let down here with a weak
script. He does impress however in handling of some emotional
sequences. The production values are fair but costumes especially worn
by Gauri and Tejaswini are simply bad. Music by Vishal – Shekhar lacks
the zing required for a youngsters flick.
Newcomer Rohit Bhatia makes a confident debut. Tejaswini Kolhapure
impresses a lot despite having been badly presented. Ishita Arun and
Gauri Karnik barely get scope to showcase their acting talents. Dia
Mirza in a small but important part is good. Harsh Chhaya is getting
type cast in a lecherous boss roles. He has done similar type of parts
earlier in Laga Chunari Mein Daag and Its Breaking News. Kiran Janjani
fits the part. Himani Shivpuri, Om Puri and Anupam Kher lend able
support as usual.
While the film may not exactly be worth a visit to the nearest
multiplex, it isn’t that bad either and can be caught up on home video
on one lazy Sunday afternoon.
Rating: 2 out of 5*
Starring: Introducing Rohit Bhatia, Dia Mirza, Tejaswini Kolhapure,
Gauri Karnik, Ishita Arun, Kiran Janjani, Anupam Kher and Om Puri
Director: Ajai Sinha
Sampurn Media
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