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CHALTI HAI KYA 9 SE 12 If any of you have heard that Anjaana Anjaani is a copy or an adaptation of some other movie then please ignore it, coz nobody’s that daft to make a movie as overwhelmingly idiotic as this one. Directed by Siddarth Anand, movie starts off as a sequel to Ranbir’s Rocket Singh (only this time his company is on the verge of a financial disaster) and Miss. Chopra doing a pathetic Devdas. Well Devdas ends himself by committing suicide and you can’t do much when recession engulfs you so, Kaira (Priyanka Chopra) and Aakash (Ranbir kapoor) respectively decide to do themselves in, coincidently and “accidentally” at the same place. After which, four feeble attempts of self destruction, sadly, go begging and we have to undertake a 2.5 hour journey of yawns, short naps and more yawns. The film loses out in a big way on two major aspects; first is the highly predictable and an insipid storyline, which one could have
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guessed had it been scripted in Arabic while the second being miserably defined characters, with Priyanka’s overacting oscillating from being superficially soulful to an accented NRI while Ranbir is totally lost in his directionless character sketch. The second half doesn’t get any better and adds to the meaningless. The humor factor also is negligent and laughs are few and far off, the supporting actor Zayed Khan being one of them. The music though, is quite decent with Salim Sulaiman’s background score just about keeping one awake while Mohit Chauhan mellifluous voice does complete justice to the beautiful track “Tujhe Bhula Diya”. But then again music needs a CD player and your ears. Rest your eyes a bit and save whatever you were about to shell out for this “Romantic, not so much of a Saga”. >> Shantanu Mehrotra