Bachna Ae Haseenon

Bachna Ae Haseenon delivers exactly what it promises; one good-looking guy, three hot girls, Switzerland-Australia-Italy, and lines that mix Angrezi, Punjabi and Hindi. And, of course, the thing called love.

Raj Ranbir and Mahi Minissha meet cute on the U Rail, and ride Swiss roads on a scooty: yep, they have missed their train. This is not the only point where you feel that this latest Yashraj film could have easily been called 8216;DDLJ 28217;. Aditya Chopra has written this one, and gets director Sidhharth Anand to reference the SRK-Kajol blockbuster so many times that you wonder if they8217;ll ever get over it.

Mahi is the sweet innocent, whose heart is ripe to be broken. Raj manages it with a smile and shrug, and moves on to Radhika Bipasha, who wants to be a supermodel. Life is all about early morning coffee and cuddles, except when marriage looms, commitment-phobic Raj, by now an on-the-fast-track game developer, scarpers. In Sydney, he meets Gayatri Deepika, cabbie by night, B-school student by day, and he starts to 8216;hang- wang8217; with her. Girls are shikaar not yaar, Raj8217;s best pal tells him. Romance raises its head again. Who will it be?

You know exactly where Raj8217;s playing eeni meeny miny mo will fetch him, but Adi and Sid manage to pull this one off because of the sheer likeability of their characters. Ranbir and Deepika, both on their second film, are still fresh enough, though the latter will have to guard against looking and sounding like Hema Malini in Om Shanti Om still. 8216;Rich spoilt boy8217; Ranbir, who shows off a muscled chest, no dropped towel this time around, alas, makes a very watchable loverboy, unabashedly sowing his wild oats before 8216;settling down8217; for his next film, he8217;ll have to go down a different track. And both Minissha, who speaks Hindi with just the right Punjabi accent, and Bipasha, all breathtakingly-tight lycra and six-inch stilletoes, play their parts well.

Finally, right boy meets right girl. Pretty, palatable, part of YRF8217;s comfort zone. Don8217;t go looking for complexity or depth, and you8217;ll be fine. What else can you expect from a leading man who says : 8216;us ladki ke saath go around kar ke aa raha hoon8217;. Smile, shrug, smile.

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