Nahi Milna!

Hum Phirr Milenge is a done-to-death love story. Girl meets boy at a hill station, they fall in love, they separate, girl believes in destiny but her family decides to marry her off to someone who isn’t the love of her life. And then her dream boy returns to win her back by pleasing her family.

The movie has a late 80s, Barjatya films hangover with pista coloured walls, garish clothes, dark furniture and loud characters that make up the typical Indian family. The opening sequence is bizarre with a husband insulting his wife. The songs, composed by Sandesh Shandilya are too many and too boring. The dialogue made no sense.

The hero’s friends are annoying and so is the hero. People drove red cars with red seats in the 70s, not in 2009. Sarwar Ahuja looks old; not young and fresh. He needs a haircut pronto.

Khushi Govil is coy, cute, sweet and simple in a very Indian way. Her long haired wig is so passé and her make up is overdone.

The sequence where the girl bids goodbye to the boy and writes her number on a chit of paper has been lifted from the hit romantic comedy Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

Then the hero and heroine meeting coincidentally all the time is a tad too much to digest. Also, we have seen the protective anti-hero female friend (of the heroine) too many times before. The hero and heroine hanging out in the mountains with their friends is so DDLJ.

You have seen the Riya Sen item number too many times on TV so there is no need to wait for it to spice up the banal proceedings in the second half.

I could barely last through the first half and I wasn’t the only one. I was just grateful that the seats were the plush Red Lounge ones so all of us poor, tired souls could put our feet up and go to sleep. The only people watching the movie and cheering were people connected to the movie.

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