Main Cast: Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor.
Director: Raj Kanwar
Theatre: PVR Cinema Europa, Forum Mall, Bangalore.
Genre: Romance (Love ’Square’)
Music: Anu Malik & Himesh Reshammiya
Lyrics: Sameer
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye (HDKG henceforth) is a fresh attempt at a ’mature’ love story while borrowing the story from umpteen old flicks.The story is about an automobile engineer Akshay kumar who is engaged to Bipasha Basu, who is an ambitious fashion designer.She prefers Milan to matrimony and Paris to Piya! hence flies off after the engagement. akki meanwhile hops off to canada for some training and there he keeps on bumping into Katrina Kaif. friendship blossoms into love across 4 meetings and three songs. But since it is a love square, the fourth corner (side??) comes in bang on the interval in the form of Anil kapoor, whi is Katrina’s fiancee.
The 2nd half of the film is abt how a misunderstanding makes Katrina leave Akki and come back to india with anil. But fate has other plans, for bipasha is the dress designer for Katrina’s trousseau and hence the parted lovers meet again on the eve of the marriage. By now the misunderstanding is solved (with help from a secretary & a li’l booze) but the staunch indian that Katrina is, she goes ahead and marries Anil. Anil kapoor comes to know abt the liasion after the marriage and the business tycoon in him (with the surname Oberoi to boot!) wants everything to be his completely! no half-baked things for him. So he hands over Katrina to Akki and walks away! Lovers reunite happily whereas bips is left high n dry!
Storywise, the movie has nothing to offer, borrowing heavily from umpteen old flicks. Its an old wine in an older bottle. Performance-wise, only two performances stand out even after the movie has finished: Katrina Kaif improves by leaps and bounds after MPKK and shows enough promise as an actress. She needs to improve a wee bit more on her emotions & expressions (esp. during songs) and she’ll make a fine model-actress! Bhagyashree makes a return to celluloid after a long time and she looks as fres as she did 16 years ago in MPK. Akki is ok whereas Bips is plain walkthrough! Anil stands out as a sore thumb. his performance in Taal was much more superlative.
Music is a big letdown. Anu malik’s songs were more of a gap-filler and only Fanaa managed to hold the audiences in their seats rather than heading out to the Loo! The title song has 2 versions and it is Himesh reshammiya’s nasal-version that is better.
All in all, this movie is a complete letdown. watch it only if you’re a Katrina Kaif fan. my rating: 1 outta 5.