After the huge Ambani brother’s war, it seems that we are going to have another big brother’s war - this time in bollywood. Aditya Chopra has an axe to grind with his younger brother Uday Chopra, and while hiring supari killers would have been humane, Aditya has gone a step further and released a movie which is sure to finish off any hope that Uday ever had of being … an actor … or a writer. Unfortunately we are caught in this brother war’s crossfire. While this is an obviously presumptive explanation - perhaps it is the only explanation for why Yashraj Films would produce such juvenile crap.
Jugal Hansraj is credited with directing Pyaar Impossible, and Uday Chopra is credited with story, screenplay and dialogues - but at no time does the movie seem any more than a primary school students’ play. The acting is pedestrian, all attempts at characterisation are purely at the costume design level, and the screenplay is so bungled, that half an hour after introducing Dino Morea’s character - he gets an ‘entry’!
But to begin at the beginning, Uday is the college geek who falls in love with the college hottie, Priyanka. The script does not even invest a minute to introduce Uday, or Priyanka’s character and the audience is expected to draw this conclusion because of one song in which Priyanka dances seductively in micro minis, while Uday flails his arms while wearing geeky glasses and braces. Since he is such a geek, Uday just gawks at Priyanka from a distance, and she is not even aware of his existence. While a stern father takes Priyanka away from college, Uday meets her again after 7 years in Singapore. He is in Singapore to reclaim a software program that was unfairly stolen from him. Priyanka is now a divorcee mother of a kid daughter, and Uday ends up working as a nanny in her home. As expected, Uday gets his program and Priyanka by the climax - but the process is so completely dull and boring that wiser people in the audience were leaving the auditorium even before the interval! We ofcourse stuck around selflessly, so that we could truthfully tell you how boring the movie is. Paint drying, ice melting, a clock’s hour hand moving, … would all be more exciting, when compared to Pyaar Impossible.
As expected, the cinematography has the typical YRF gloss, and even the music by Salim Suleiman is fairly decent. But that’s it - the next passable thing in this juvenile attempt at movie making is Dino Morea’s acting! Priyanka Chopra, Uday Chopra and Anupam Kher attempt to invest some sincerity, but have such inanely pedestrian dialogues that the script buries them. In spite of all this the movie could still have had a spark, IF they had cast a good child actress as Priyanka’s daughter - but the girl who is cast here, is intolerably awful.
When hundreds of talented directors are waiting for a break, Jugal Hansraj criminally wastes his second opportunity with Yashraj. Under his direction, Pyaar Impossible, is an impossibly perfect bore. In the absence of anything lower, we will have to stop at giving it a 0.