Sometimes when it comes to movies one tends to have intuitions about how the movie would turn out to be even when the project has just about started. As the project progresses and when you get more updates; your intuitions either get reinforced or else they tend to be in doubt. Of course finally when the movie comes out and you get to watch it, you tend to check whether you have been right all along. Quite often if the intuition has been strongly positive or negative it tends to be validated and comes out true. And sometimes when it’s proved wrong you do admit your surprise in getting outsmarted. Pyaar Impossible (PI from hereon) is one such movie where right from the start I had certain intuitions about how the movie would be and I wanted to watch it and confirm for myself whether I would be right.
Ok before I get to the plot here are some of the intuitions that I had right from the time I first heard about PI –
1.That the writing would be pretty archaic, the plot would really be a mish-mash of so many other romantic movies.2.That try as much as he can but Uday Chopra would fail to carry out the geek’s role that he plays in PI.3.That the movie would be shot abroad (like lot many other YRF movies) and this would again be just for the sake of convenience.4.That the music would be reasonably trendy5.That Jugal Hansraj’s direction wouldn’t be anything to rave about.
Ok let me finally talk about PI now. PI begins with a typical campus setting in the U.S (Ankert University,California ) where Abhay Sharma ( Uday of course ) plays the geek and Alisha ( Priyanka of course ) plays the college hottie. Abhay loves Alisha silently while poor Alisha is totally oblivious of Abhay’s existence. Abhay even gets a chance to save her from drowning once but even then the circumstances are not in his favor and he remains unknown to her. One fine day Alisha leaves the campus and Abhay has nothing else to do apart from living in her memory.
Ok 7 years later we see Abhay now ( still the geek ) who has just finally got a breakthrough with a revolutionary Operating Software ( OS ) and thus wants to be an entrepreneur like his dad. Then in one of the first silly episodes in the movie we see Abhay getting duped by a potential investor, Varun (Dino Morea) who steals his OS and in turn tries to make use of it by selling it off. So now determined to get back his OS and prove his worth, Abhay moves to Singapore in search of Varun. That’s when Abhay sees Alisha who is the Head of P.R & Marketing in the same firm with whom Varun is now about to close his deal.
Abhay realizes that Alisha is now a single mother of a 6 year old girl and by a turn of events finds himself becoming a “nanny” to Alisha’s daughter. So how does Abhay go about getting his OS back and winning his love is what the rest of the story is all about. The movie abounds in clichés galore and not once do you find yourself truly connecting to the proceedings. PI is certainly is not the worst movie seen in recent times (there are many other contenders for that) but it is nevertheless a very silly film indeed. The writing (Uday Chopra) is so lazy that many a times you tend to laugh at the proceedings because things seem to be so silly. Be it the way Uday goes about handling his OS, the way it gets stolen, and of course most importantly the pre-climax and the climax.
The 6 year old daughter of Priyanka decides to play cupid and help Uday. She even suggests one day that she will stay over at a friends place so that they both can actually spend some time together. And the next day she even asks Uday- “tell me what happened last night, give me the gossip”. There are many more such moments in the film. Priyanka is always seen wearing micro mini skirts and shorts, even in office. I wonder which organization in the world is so liberal. And for someone who is the Head of P.R and Marketing in an I.T company, Priyanka is shown as someone who has zero idea of computers and yet is allowed access to the central server room of the organization also
The music by Salim-Sulaiman is fairly easy on the ears and would be heard as long as the movie is still having its theatrical run.Once again we have a movie based abroad for no real rhyme or reason. Oh! And quite a few scenes in the movie also give you a feeling of deja vu as you think of so many other movies. On the performance front though Uday makes a sincere attempt he still falls short of convincing in the role of the geek. And though Priyanka looks hot in the movie she certainly comes across as a fairly silly girl who tends to get hyper while speaking. Dino Morea is hardly given any dialogues to speak (thankfully) and so doesn’t really have to try hard.
So would YRF decide to stop making attempts to revive Uday’s career with movies like this once in 4 years? (Neil n Nikki came out some 4 years ago) or would they only relegate him as part of multi star cast projects like Dhoom series?Well that remains to be seen after this.
Ok before I get to the plot here are some of the intuitions that I had right from the time I first heard about PI –
1.That the writing would be pretty archaic, the plot would really be a mish-mash of so many other romantic movies.2.That try as much as he can but Uday Chopra would fail to carry out the geek’s role that he plays in PI.3.That the movie would be shot abroad (like lot many other YRF movies) and this would again be just for the sake of convenience.4.That the music would be reasonably trendy5.That Jugal Hansraj’s direction wouldn’t be anything to rave about.
Ok let me finally talk about PI now. PI begins with a typical campus setting in the U.S (Ankert University,California ) where Abhay Sharma ( Uday of course ) plays the geek and Alisha ( Priyanka of course ) plays the college hottie. Abhay loves Alisha silently while poor Alisha is totally oblivious of Abhay’s existence. Abhay even gets a chance to save her from drowning once but even then the circumstances are not in his favor and he remains unknown to her. One fine day Alisha leaves the campus and Abhay has nothing else to do apart from living in her memory.
Ok 7 years later we see Abhay now ( still the geek ) who has just finally got a breakthrough with a revolutionary Operating Software ( OS ) and thus wants to be an entrepreneur like his dad. Then in one of the first silly episodes in the movie we see Abhay getting duped by a potential investor, Varun (Dino Morea) who steals his OS and in turn tries to make use of it by selling it off. So now determined to get back his OS and prove his worth, Abhay moves to Singapore in search of Varun. That’s when Abhay sees Alisha who is the Head of P.R & Marketing in the same firm with whom Varun is now about to close his deal.
Abhay realizes that Alisha is now a single mother of a 6 year old girl and by a turn of events finds himself becoming a “nanny” to Alisha’s daughter. So how does Abhay go about getting his OS back and winning his love is what the rest of the story is all about. The movie abounds in clichés galore and not once do you find yourself truly connecting to the proceedings. PI is certainly is not the worst movie seen in recent times (there are many other contenders for that) but it is nevertheless a very silly film indeed. The writing (Uday Chopra) is so lazy that many a times you tend to laugh at the proceedings because things seem to be so silly. Be it the way Uday goes about handling his OS, the way it gets stolen, and of course most importantly the pre-climax and the climax.
The 6 year old daughter of Priyanka decides to play cupid and help Uday. She even suggests one day that she will stay over at a friends place so that they both can actually spend some time together. And the next day she even asks Uday- “tell me what happened last night, give me the gossip”. There are many more such moments in the film. Priyanka is always seen wearing micro mini skirts and shorts, even in office. I wonder which organization in the world is so liberal. And for someone who is the Head of P.R and Marketing in an I.T company, Priyanka is shown as someone who has zero idea of computers and yet is allowed access to the central server room of the organization also
The music by Salim-Sulaiman is fairly easy on the ears and would be heard as long as the movie is still having its theatrical run.Once again we have a movie based abroad for no real rhyme or reason. Oh! And quite a few scenes in the movie also give you a feeling of deja vu as you think of so many other movies. On the performance front though Uday makes a sincere attempt he still falls short of convincing in the role of the geek. And though Priyanka looks hot in the movie she certainly comes across as a fairly silly girl who tends to get hyper while speaking. Dino Morea is hardly given any dialogues to speak (thankfully) and so doesn’t really have to try hard.
So would YRF decide to stop making attempts to revive Uday’s career with movies like this once in 4 years? (Neil n Nikki came out some 4 years ago) or would they only relegate him as part of multi star cast projects like Dhoom series?Well that remains to be seen after this.
Originally published in PFC- check it out here- http://tinyurl.com/yyetqtr
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