Siddharth Anand’s ‘Bachna ae haseeno’ fails to live up to its
pre-release hype. A good story-idea is squandered away by a poor screenplay and
a contrived plot. With such poor screenplay, the director starts off on the
footsteps of DDLG but keeps faltering throughout the way. The story is simple-
A handsome lover boy breaks the hearts of two beautiful girls and then gets the
other end of the stick as the third girl breaks his heart. He starts off again
from the beginning to apologise to the girls he had ditched earlier only to
find them well-settled and successful. He returns back to the third girl who
suddenly has a change of heart and agrees to tie the knot with him.
Ranbir is most apt in the role of the lover-boy and looks
fresh-and-clean. Minisha Lamba, who plays the first girl, lacks the spark, the
looks and the panache required for the role and her track falls absolutely
flat. Sexy and scantily-clothed Bipasha follows as a breath of fresh air as she
shares a live-in relationship with Ranbir. In the final track, Deepika plays a
business-like lady taxi-driver, who is actually pursuing Management studies in
the daytime. She is easily the best among the three. After intermission, each
of the three starlets gets to play a second inning. In the second outing, both
Minisha, as a typical sardarni house-wife and Bipasha, as a super-model, are
much better and improved while Deepika loses the initiative, as the film meanders
to a tame end. A Punjabi marriage sequence, in true-Yashraj style is thrown in
to act as an anchor to save the film. Kunal Kapoor puts in a special appearance
as the sardarji hubby of Minisha.
RD Burman’s ‘Bachna ae haseeno’ track, cleverly repackaged
by Vishal-Shekhar keeps livening up proceedings somewhat, helped in good
measure by the grand locales. Some part of the film is even shot in exotic Liechtenstein.
The other tracks barring ’Khuda jaane’ are uninspiring. Some peppy and humorous
dialogues could have saved the film but the dialogue-writer seemed to be clearly
having an off-day. A few twists and turns in the plot would have relived the
tedium somewhat.
The only redeeming factors in the film are Ranbir and
Bipasha but I am afraid that this is going to be Ranbir’s second flop in a row.
Better luck next time for poor Ranbir, who is clearly trying
his best.