Cineyug’’s Humko Tumse Pyaar Hain, directed by Vikram Bhatt, is a love story.What could’ve been an engaging film turns out to be an absolute hotchpotch thanks to vikram’s unimaginative direction and jaded screenplay.
The film is centred on a blind girl, Durga, played by Amisha Patel, who lives with her mother in Rajasthan. Her otherwise quiet life takes an exciting turn when Rohit (Arjun Rampal), a compassionate and loving businessman, enters her life and falls in love with her.
Their happiness is shortlived when a village goon, interested in her, kills Rohit.
Durga tries to get over her trauma and another young man, Raj (Bobby Deol), steps into her life and gives her reason. But when destiny gives you another chance at love, it comes with a catch.
The film, a love story, relies too heavily on the tried-and-tested stuff and in the bargain, comes across as a project that had potential, but got ruined in the process. Actually, nothing concrete happens in the first half of this enterprise. The mandatory romantic songs – surprisingly, all dream sequences – follow one after the other, coupled with a few light sequences. The film gains momentum minutes before the interval, when Arjun gets killed.
Expectations soar and one looks forward to a riveting second half, but all hopes turn sour in view of the fact that the drama falls flat in the post-interval portions. The sequences in this half are, at times, amateurish and at some places, far-fetched . What adds to the sorrows is the sermonising in the second half, which gets on your nerves.
Unfortunately, the finale – the climax – is the saddest part of the enterprise. In fact, whatever little the narrative may have impressed in the second half gets lost due to the weird climax.
Vikram Bhatt’s direction is old-fashioned. In an era of stylish films that also have substance to talk of, this love story takes you back to the 1980s. His shot execution is anything but trendy. Script leaves a lot to be desired, for he has rehashed the same old formula and presented it in a new avtaar.
Anand Raaj Anand comes up with an excellent score which is sadly wasted in this hideous bore of a film. ’Chori’, ’Tere ishq’, ’title track’ and ’kaise tumhein’ are musical gems and the lyrics are noteworthy. The picturisation of all the songs is commendable as well.
Cinematography is just about okay. Dialogues tend to get crude at times, mainly those delivered by Parmeet Sethi.
Arjun is not bad at all in a role which requires him for most of the first half of the film to dance around trees. The rest of the proceedings are so predictable and he goes through the motions in a perfunctory way. Amisha is simply too sophisticated to be the village babe and makes no attempt to be anything other than that. Bobby Deol is an embarrassment.
Possibly the most meaningless and boring film of the year and one that will be hard to beat. One to avoid with a barge pole.