Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ruslaan Mumtaz
Direction: Milap Zaveri
Genre: Romantic comedy/ Fantasy
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They say men are from Mars and women are from Venus. But what happens when a man from Earth meets a woman from Venus!
Milap Zaveri’s breezy rom-com begins with a spoof on the Hindi film industry just like Om Shanti Om with Riteish playing SRK, Vishal Malhotra playing Shreyas Talpade and Ruslaan Mumtaz playing a superstar ‘Desh’ just the way Deepika Padukone played ‘Shantipriya’. OSO’s maker Farah Khan also makes an impressive cameo as she is the director who Rajesh Parekh (Riteish) and Kaushal (Vishal) assist.
24 year old Rajesh and best friend Kaushal are perpetual losers as both are kind of chick repellants. Why, because Rajesh is too simple and Kaushal too horny. The two keep envying Desh’s popularity and his craze amongst the female population. One fine night, a gorgeous girl falls from the sky and lands straight into Rajesh’s arms! To everyone’s surprise the girl (Jacqueline) happens to be from Venus whose mission is to find her true love on earth, just like Rajesh.
Riteish, Vishal and Jacqueline all three render impressive performances and are the saving grace of the film. Where Riteish and Vishal have perfect comic timing, Jacqueline looks every bit a woman from Venus. She is gorgeous, pleasant and a confident performer. There is no naivety in her performance. Her Hindi too is surprisingly decent.
What disappoints is the sloppy script. The idea between alien-human love is interesting but the story doesn’t materialize as we would expect. The dialogues are corny, characters clichéd and the genre confused. There are ample of heavy romantic cheesy lines but no interesting romance. The actors have good comic timing but there are no great humorous punches in the script itself for them to enact. Also the director gives undue space and time for supporting actors instead of focusing on his lead pair which seems futile.
Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra and Sajjid Khan also play cameos as they talk about superstar Desh just the way they did in spoke about Farhan in Luck By Chance. Again nothing new there!
Making Ruslaan Mumtaz as the superstar of Bollywood in the film too seems like a bad idea. The actor looks cute and acts well but doesn’t look the character he plays, as off screen, he himself is a newcomer and is thus unable to display the aura of a superstar.
The film had the potential to be better but disappoints.
Milap Zaveri’s breezy rom-com begins with a spoof on the Hindi film industry just like Om Shanti Om with Riteish playing SRK, Vishal Malhotra playing Shreyas Talpade and Ruslaan Mumtaz playing a superstar ‘Desh’ just the way Deepika Padukone played ‘Shantipriya’. OSO’s maker Farah Khan also makes an impressive cameo as she is the director who Rajesh Parekh (Riteish) and Kaushal (Vishal) assist.
24 year old Rajesh and best friend Kaushal are perpetual losers as both are kind of chick repellants. Why, because Rajesh is too simple and Kaushal too horny. The two keep envying Desh’s popularity and his craze amongst the female population. One fine night, a gorgeous girl falls from the sky and lands straight into Rajesh’s arms! To everyone’s surprise the girl (Jacqueline) happens to be from Venus whose mission is to find her true love on earth, just like Rajesh.
Riteish, Vishal and Jacqueline all three render impressive performances and are the saving grace of the film. Where Riteish and Vishal have perfect comic timing, Jacqueline looks every bit a woman from Venus. She is gorgeous, pleasant and a confident performer. There is no naivety in her performance. Her Hindi too is surprisingly decent.
What disappoints is the sloppy script. The idea between alien-human love is interesting but the story doesn’t materialize as we would expect. The dialogues are corny, characters clichéd and the genre confused. There are ample of heavy romantic cheesy lines but no interesting romance. The actors have good comic timing but there are no great humorous punches in the script itself for them to enact. Also the director gives undue space and time for supporting actors instead of focusing on his lead pair which seems futile.
Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra and Sajjid Khan also play cameos as they talk about superstar Desh just the way they did in spoke about Farhan in Luck By Chance. Again nothing new there!
Making Ruslaan Mumtaz as the superstar of Bollywood in the film too seems like a bad idea. The actor looks cute and acts well but doesn’t look the character he plays, as off screen, he himself is a newcomer and is thus unable to display the aura of a superstar.
The film had the potential to be better but disappoints.
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