First of all, with due respect to Late Yash Ji, who was the master of love sagas, could not recreate the magic in his last outing, although every scene has a Yash Chopra’s grandness, but the screenplay is very weak, so weak that even SRK can’t elevate to make it a normal movie. The movie is painfully slow, and the background music just depreciate the rest.
The story is simple. Akira Rai, played by Anushka is saved by "The Man Who Cannot Die" tagged Major Samar Anand. Akira reads his dairy, and the movie go back ten years, where Samar is a musician, who work anything for making more and more pounds. He meets Meera, and fell in love. Meera, in order to please his dad, want to learn a Punjabi song from Samar. She is engaged too. She has a uncanny habit of asking God her wish, and in return she leaves something or the other. While learning music, she fell in love with Samar. Before, she could take another step, Samar has an accident and she prays to God, if Samar would live, she would leave him forever. What a crazy thinking this was. Utter Bulshit. To counter her wish, Samar challenged God, that he will play with life everyday, let me see how many days you can keep me alive.
Akira is back after interval in today, and she went to shoot a documentary on Samar, and more she knew him, more she fall in love with him. But Samar didn’t reciprocate. Samar is called to London, by Akira to meet her boss. Samar again, has an accident, and this time he has amnesia of some sort, and now he remembers only the ten years past story, before his accident, and Meera came back to scene, and after diffusing a bomb in a train, he get back his memory, and he, after scolding Meera, return back to army camp, but then Meera realised and came back to him and they live forever after.
SRK is superb as Major Samar Anand, but misses the magic as a lover boy. Anushka sparkles through out the movie, and her chemistry with SRK works great. You really wish her to be longer, but she is second lead, so her role is as limited. Katrina’s role is quite awkward and really bad chemistry she has with SRK.
Only the movie moves at a good pace, when the scenes are at Kashmir. The London sequences are long and pretty boring.
Cinematography is top notch, both London and Kashmir is shot brilliantly. Music by Rehman is nice. Background is pretty below average.Direction is just about okay, as the major fault is script.Go and watch it for the maestro Yash Chopra, otherwise you’re just wasting your money.