Movie Review : You Me Aur Hum

Ajay Devgan’s directorial debut released this week with much anticipation. For most it was seeing the beautiful Kajol on screen with her off screen husband Ajay Devgan. The trailers always showed the two main characters with a backdrop of a ship even though the cast spoke of 4 other moderately important characters. So what begins as a story about these couples turns out to actually be a story about Ajay (indigenous eh ?)and Pia (Kajol).
The story is told in a narrative form where an old man is narrating it to an old woman about the story of how a young guy fell in love. This story has three or more (I lost count) stories embedded in it. The form of narration is clearly a major flow which makes you lose interest in the movie. Not to mention a weird kid who keeps popping up and giving the stink eye. The camera person needs a better camera because this one has its zoom stuck at an eye hurting level of detail. In one scene he was focusing on Ajay Devgan’s mole on his neck (did you know he had one? I bet even Kajol didn’t know that !). Lets look at the dialogues, the dialogue writer has-as Rajeev Masand pointed out- the distinction of delivering three back to back flops in a matter of two weeks (One two three, Krazzy 4, You me aur Hum). According to him, “men are like mice-always looking for a hole” or “I am a poet, and I didn’t even know it” are supposed to make us laugh. Not to mention the absolute boring, long speeches that Ajay doles out that makes you start hallucinating Baba Ramdev. In one scene, Ajay Devgan tired to liven up a dead party at his house by singing a ghazal! The entire movie hall started clapping along with the actors on screen and laughing at the madness that is the movie itself! Ajay Devgan in his earnest effort to add masala packs in a few scary scenes too. Like the one where he is talking and the camera is pointing on the glass table-so that he looks like a mutilated ghost or the one where just as the song finishes the scene rapidly shifts to a eerie close up of a brightly illuminated MRI machine or the extra zoomed in Kajol eye! The story is blatantly ripped from the 2004 romantic ‘The Notebook’. But hey! That’s allowed now. We get all stories, “inspired” from Hollywood classics and mock them by making Bollywood film out of them. At least have the courtesy to stick to the original story line; there is a reason why the main characters die In the end of ‘The Notebook’. Finally ,all medical people, get ready to be astounded- Ajay Devgan has created a new breed of Alzheimer’s disease. Yep, in this- people become mute, have memory losses in spurts, and of course manage to shed that all important tear- even when a strange man come to your room and claims to be your husband. They way this disease has been handles is distasteful to say the least. Mr Devgan, let me introduce to wikipedia. Both ‘The Notebook’ and Alzheimer’s can be found there. Even the direction was awkward. The scenes cut at all the wrong places and editing was zilch. Songs showed in just for the heck of it. Kajol strip dances when Ajay tells her she is being sent to a psych-ward!! A final note on the four side characters. They are there in every scene and not included in the final most important one (bad bad !). Apart from their presence, Sumeet Raghavan (Sarabhai vs Sarabhai) shows of his beautiful acting skills in a dead movie.Divya Dutta is not exploited even though she s a awesome actress. Isha Sharwani is only there for her beauty looks and OMG-dance moves. And I don’t remember who the last guy was-oh yea-Karan Khanna! He abuses, runs naked on the ship, flaunts his body and suggests naming the baby F-dash-dash-K-E-R (but then again, dialogue writer is retarded!). All in all the movie deserves a saving grace 1 out of 5. Just an afterthought-Kajol, try playing some normal roles. Blind in Fanaa, Metal Illness in this .. eh what’s next? Oh yea, Karan Johar’s –‘My Name is Khan’ with Sharukh Khan. Ftw!!