Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

Bachna Ae Haseeno is a film directed by Siddharth Raj Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra. As this film is made under Yashraj banner so it has all the magic like other Yashraj films. Ranbir Kapoor is playing the lead role against three co-stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone and Manisha Lamba in this film.

The guy Anand (Ranbir Kapoor) is a complete flirt. He wears his heart on his sleeve. Enter three women Mahi (Minissha Lamba), Radhika (Bipasha Basu) and Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) in different stages of his life. Love is in the air. Two dream of marrying him, but he ditches them and the third, whom he intends marrying, says a blunt ‘No’ to the offer. Heart-broken, the guy realizes his folly and plans on doing prayashchit. He goes back to the first two women and apologises. What happened next is all about the film.

Bachna Ae Haseeno has splendid moments in the first hour. In fact, the three stories, minus the culmination of course, are beautifully told in the first hour itself. There’re some attention-grabbing moments in this hour and you genuinely feel exhilarated after having watched those portions. Cameraman Sunil Patel gives a breathtaking canvass of the exotic locales of Switzerland, the colours vibrant and the music groovy.

On the acting front, Ranbir Kapoor has shown his talent and kep the Kapoor flag flying high, successfully shouldering the film with the confidence in his abilities as a performer. Bipasha Basu is fine as before, Manisha Lamba is ok but has a long way to go, Deepika Padukone could not do much in this film she is just ok.

On the whole, Bachna Ae Haseeno has a great cast, great chemistry amongst actors, great locations and some great moments but it suffers to a major extent, due to its screenplay running out of steam. The film could be much better if some major attention would have given on the screenplay. The storyline is cool, if you go by the segment this film is targeted at the youth.

Mumbai Meri Jaan (2008)

It’s the 9th of july 2006.. the numerous blasts in the train and what it brought out in people.. some of them victims.. their fear and paranoia.. Kaykay is sure that the suspicious muslim guy who hangs out at the irani cafe is one of the perpetrators of the tragedy and his subsequent rage and loss of innocence.. Madhavan’s mortal fear of trains.. his unaware pregnant wife of the tragedy that almost missed him.. Irrfan wanting to avenge his humiliation in front of his family by the floor incharge of the perfume section by figuring out a dangerous game that he can play with the paranoid distrusting police and administration.. the wisdom of the retiring cop always in confrontation with the idealistic cop who had to cancel his holiday.. and the tv journo who has now become the story.. anger,humility, fear and fearlessness, paranoia, self realizations, hate and self loathing, all surface over the facade of the perfect lie of a life we dream of in a metropolis..