Tum Mile: A predictable bore
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 Ali Taha (Emraan) meets Sanjana (Soha) on board of their flight to
Mumbai from Cape Town. Here on the film proceeds on and back and forth
narrative revealing them being ex-lovers. Six years back then Ali was a
art student and had lost his heart to the activist Sanjana. They both
had progressed to a live in relationship in quick time as well. But
monetary issues leading to ego clashes had broken their relationship
apart. 
After arriving in Mumbai on the ill fated day of 26th July 2005,
they go onto encounter the biggest floods in the history of Mumbai. The
rest of the film is about the couple battling for their lives after
being stuck in the rain and floods. In their struggle for survival,
they learn more about each other and things which they had not known in
all those years of being together.
Emraan is only getting better with each passing film and in here as
well he is very impressive. Soha Ali Khan delivers her best performance
till date going through a gamut of expressions with amazing ease.
Amongst the rest cast the only one to leave a mark is debutant RJ
Mantra. He is very good playing Emraan’s buddy.
Kunal Deshmukh’s shows technical department improvement after his
debut film Jannat. His treatment of the love story though somewhat
predictable is good as well. But we most often keep sensing that the
flood situation things which appear more thrilling have completely
deliberately taken a back seat with the flash back and romance between
the lead pair taking more prominence. This all leads to the film being
boring at many places. There was a recent news item that Mahesh Bhatt
cut short the flood shots to give more importance to the romantic
track. Well not a wise decision we may say. The stock footage of the
floods and the computer graphics are a let down at many places but the
one thing that doesn’t dissappoint is the film’s music. Pritam deserves
full marks for his consistency in delivery great music which is already
ruling the charts along with his score for last Friday’s release Ajab
Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Camerawork by Prakash Kutty is very good. The
effort gone in recreating the flood situation is commendable as well.
Tum Mile is more of a romantic film with the natural disaster
backdrop added for effect. If you are going in expecting India’s first
disaster movie then you will be in for a major disillusionment. So
choose it at your own preference.
Rating: 2 out of 5*
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan, Sachin Khedekar and RJ Mantra
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Sampurn Media
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