Prolonged torture

A real case of the blues. Dil Hi Dil Mein wanted to be the first to depict romance engineered over the Internet. But you want to remind A ...

A real case of the blues. Dil Hi Dil Mein wanted to be the first to depict romance engineered over the Internet. But you want to remind A M Ratnam that not even those who eat nails and tubelights to get into the record books inflict such prolonged torture on other people. Newcomer Kunal features opposite Bendre. He plays a student who bags a seat in a premier management school because he slept on the same wayside bench that the institute8217;s chairman once slept on. The poor waif also receives training in how to say those three important words to his lady by his benefactor.

The chairman convenes a family gathering to brainstorm on the most suitable love letter to be written on Kunal8217;s behalf. The man turns out to be Sonali8217;s father, and actually cancels her perfectly arranged marriage to gratify puppy love.

Actor Raju Shreshtha Master Raju wears a burqa because he8217;s impersonating a woman in a Net chat. Johnny Lever8217;s talent is smothered like never before. He looks and sounds ridiculous as a professor who doesn8217;t know the basics of technology. Anupam Kher plays a quot;hardened armymanquot; who bursts into tears on hearing Kunal8217;s sob story. And all those train journeys originating from Bandra Station make you think that the Western Railway PRO couldn8217;t have promoted it better.

Because no other word8217;s been invented yet, you are forced to call those appalling noises in Dil Hi Dil Mein music. You click your tongue in sympathy for audiences who have made A R Rahman their god, because that8217;s what prompts him to pass anything off under the name of experimentation. Mehboob can only give what he is capable of: E-mail se love letter goriya, sagar ke liye fishing net, pyar ke liye Internet8217;. That8217;s what you get for encouraging Telephone dhun mein hansne wali!8217; Throw the music out through the window and watch the flowers wilt.

8212; Bella Jaisinghani