With love triangles,B-Town leaps away from formula

“This is unprecedented”,said an industry insider. “I have seldom seen movies with such a setting,hitting the screen in a back to back fashion. Though I am sure treatment of each of these films would be different that would bring in added variety for the cine-goers,the very fact that there are two actors wooing another is something that proves once again that formula films are back.”

He could well be right here at least from genre perspective. After all each of the films has been treated differently,what with Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Not A Love Story’ being a murder drama,’Mere Brother Ki Dulhan’ a family film,’Hum Tum Shabana’ a romantic comedy and ‘Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster’ being a quirky drama thriller.

“Each of these films is looking like an interesting preposition though”,says a trade guru,”Not A Love Story is told from Mahie’s perspective who aids one lover (Deepak Dobriyal) in the killing of another (Ajay Gehi).”

And then there are some films that reveal everything at the title stage itself. ‘Mere Brother Ki Dulhan’ hasn’t hidden anything in conveying how Imran Khan falls in love with the fiancée (Katrina Kaif) of his brother (Ali Zafar). Ditto for ‘Hum Tum Shabana’ where both Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade are wooing Minissha as well as ‘Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster’ which is about a royal couple (Jimmy Sheirgill,Mahie Gill) and an unsuspecting intruder (Randeep Hooda).

Wait,there is more. Though not much is known about ‘Soundtrack’,one can expect that it’s a three-way love story between Rajeev Khandelwal,Soha Ali Khan and Mrinalini Sharma. Similar indications can be made about ‘Tell Me O Khhuda’,which releases in September,where Esha Deol will be seen alongside Arjan Bajwa and Chandan Roy Sanyal.