Uninteresting story,flatjokes

There are many occasions Radha and the screechy girl who the recreate the celluloid version And we aren 't talking in this three-tiered love comes in-between them (Neha of a high school play where the about h is tractor. story when the two Sharma) is, believe it or not, props are borrowed from the The attempts in the protagonists simpl y run out of Meera. furniture-wa/i aunty 's store. pre-Partition segment to words as the dialogue slumps This self-consciousl y And by the way the Lata instil a sense of patriotic into an embarrassing silence. mythologized modern day love Mangeshkar-Kishore Kuma r pride, is shamefully baggy. This, you fee l is very much in triangle prompts a friend of the duet Likha hai tere ankh on mein The Gora Log are played character. On paper, I am sure Teri hero to quip, "Yeh Radha aur from t he Dev Anand starrer Teen by junior artistes whose Meri Kahaani must have seemed Krishna ke beech mein Meera Deviyaan wh ich plays in the only credential to represent like a terrific 3-in-1. A sumptuous kahan se aa gay1? " background in a street scene British India is the colour feast of role and accent Wel l, LOL to that. Krish and featuring Shahid and Prachi of their skin. The patriotic transference for the charming Radha often resort to smileys Desai, did not exist in 1960. It Indians get to shout Vande pair. Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka and LOLs to express their came five years later. Mataram in fresh ly-stitched Chopra are among the best talent growing fondness. The smi l eys That brings us to the music kurtas and tops. Mercif ully we have today. They are versatile, remain singularly isolated in and choreography, so essential we are spared a re-mix. confident, good-looking and their amusement. There is not to evoking periodicity specially The clothes suggest a simply cool. Director Kuna! Kohli a moment when we empathise when the lead pair dances so well. close affinity between boutique gives them three different love with the protagonists or feel the But getting Shahi d to do Shammi w isdom and periodicity. And that stories to sink their decalcified intended flow of their love for Kapoor? Bad idea. Very bad idea. seems to be the preva lent mood teeth into. one another. What we see are Shahid's measured steps would of the romance. The emotions

The problem starts ear ly. None two stars trying to breathe life have made Sham mi LOL. seem to be obtained off the shelf of the three stories i s i nspired into a mutual affection that never The worst story of the three Priyanka and Shahid struggle or even interesting. The high- quite takes off. is the one set in pre-Partition hard to look deeply interested in points in each story are so weak It gets worse. The two other Punjab. It almost seems to spoof the l ines and in each other. we don't know when they arrive. stories are even less engaging. Vidhu Vinod Chopra 's 1942: A It's a losing battle. There's Some of the material that has The one set in the film industry Love Story. Like Anil Kapoor in only so much you can do w ith gone into telling the triple-tiered resorts to painstaking periodicity Chopra's film, Shahid cares not a conspicuous ly corny lines l ike, story frank ly appears to be a to recreate Mumbai in 1960. A hoot about India's independence. "Are we like those coup les who secret joke where the punchline tram crosses Mumbai's heartland. He cares only about "love-shove". ta lk on the sms and on line and is known only to the writers. To his credit the art designer tries And please take the 'shove' have nothi ng to say when they

For exampl e in the segment hard to get the exteriors right. serious ly. The grinning rogue come face to face?" in London 2011 Shahid and Though some of it is so shallow Iikes to put it in wherever he gets Even if they are, do we care?

Priyanka are named Krish and you feel Kunal Kohli is attempting space.

Just why Kunal Kohl i , a director who has shown some sensiti vity in handling the man-woman re l ationship, chose to make this film is mystery solvable on ly by the actors who agreed to be part ofthe endeavour.

Subhash K. Jha

!=ILM : Maximum CAST: Naseeruddi n Shah, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia, Am it Sadh, and Vinay Pathak

WRITER - DIRECTOR: Kabeer Kaushik