First, Lets kick start with THE BITCHING !
The 3-in-1 tale starts with Minisha’s fond fantasies of raj-simran fable coming true and ends with the love stricken puppy watching her infatuation about ’forever love’ flush into a dark hole. In the later half, it takes RAJ’s (ranvir) charisma, crashing into a wedding, and a song & dance routine to bring on the dawn of realisation that her then hubby is after all THE raj that she always wanted. They say this part of the trilogy is a tribute to DDLJ, but c’mon, I felt they shamelessly piggy backed on past glory...!
If one lousy break up, especially as lame as a one-day fun & frolic day kinds can hardened women, women all over the world will not be carrying the tag of being chatter-boxes, chattering away about every insignificant aspect of their lives (& every ones around them) … from their chipped nail to their churidar fabric, from nagging abt their maids to their nagging mum in laws, from their husbands bald heads to their wedding day tales ….yawn yawn yawn. (Life would be so wonderful!)
Later our protagonist dumps another girl friend at the altar - dunno who I felt sorrier for, Ranvir or Bipasha! It sure was juvenile to avoid the issue & conveniently flee away, but what could the poor guy do; caught unaware by being pounced on with the ol’ ball & chain without even being asked! And the phase ’assumption is the mother of all screw ups’ will never be redundant!
And my my! The heavy duty amount of face paint that Bipasha uses seems to be more than what was used to dress up the characters in lord of the rings! Amusingly enough, she does bring your medieval world fantasies alive by transforming into the gollum, hobbit, witch, orc, elf & their likes in various scenes. Makes me wonder about 2 things (1) how much money do these cosmetic companies make out of this one- woman- super- duper- HNI- customer (2) HOW ugly IS she? to be using so much of this color & drawing on her?!
Likewise if a measly break up could make women super b*tchy over achievers, most of top management would comprise women! Women would rule the world! Give us a break, there aint any need to give undue importance to break ups!
Deepika’s character is supposedly super intelligent + juggling MBA & a dozen jobs along side. But the flat sentences streaming out of her bozo mouth some how don’t seem to be coming out of her brain but being prompted by a tele-prompter. The witty repartee fails miserably to induce any sense of humor and when she supposedly ’impresses’ our hero with latesht info on the launch of Microsoft products, you cringe hopelessly. Babes, you gotta have rehearsed those ’tough’ words many, many more times BEFORE the cameras started to roll, so they dont look like u’ve just heard em for the 1st time in yr life!
Lets finish off with THE SWOONING !
Its of course Ranbir that I have saved all the praises for ! Going the "My name is Earl" way, he is in your face, being immensely versatile, as an actor, dancer & whoooaa, whatta looker! Here you get a complete package to swoon on. He makes the fable fun.
So it’s a mix of Switzerland & Shaadi from ’DDLJ’, Living In from ’Salaam Namaste’, setting things right from ’My name is Earl’, and woman-on-top b*tch from ’Devil wears Prada’- Thank god for small mercies- cuz the story doesn’t dwell too much over any one of the above in particular – neatly avoiding you from getting bored. Likewise with the locations (globetrotting: way to go !). Another plus point is none of the female characters get pregnant and decide to have babies… phew! Aint that a welcome change!
Apart from Ranbir the one who shines in the ensemble is Hiten Paintel, one the of the finest & most ’useful’ hero’s pal appearance I’ve come across in a long time! He gets all the credit for making us laugh !
Nonetheless it’s far funnier & a decent watch compared to many, many duds that I’ve tried before (the worse being Ugleee aur paglee…. We the paglees watching the uglees)