Sad Drama


Director:    KS Adhiyaman
Producer: KC Bokadia
Cast:            Shah Rukh, Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai
Rating:     3/10

Director KS Adhiyaman's Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam is a remake of his Tamil venture Thotta Chinungi. The film is a perfect example of South Indian hits not exactly catering to the taste of Bollywood buffs.

The storyline goes thus. Devnarayan (Alok Nath) decides to bring up Gopal (Shah Rukh Khan) and Nita (Suman Ranganathan), the kids of his deceased pal. He gets so involved with the children that he begins to neglect his daughter Laxmi (Aroona Irani) and her kids Radha (Madhuri Dixit) and Prashant (Atul Agnihotri). After unsuccessful attempts at making her father realise his mistake, Laxmi plans to quit the house and bring up her children on her own. Her detachment is unfathomable for her father. Extremely depressed, he falls ill and is hospitalised. A shocked Laxmi goes rushes the hospital and meets with a fatal accident on the way.
Thereafter Devnarayan takes on the responsibility of her children too. As the four kids are being brought up together, Gopal begins to love Radha. Aware of this, Devnarayan gets them married.

On the other side, Radha and Suraj (Salman Khan) are the best of buddies since childhood. Suraj is mentally so dependent on Radha that he runs to her for the slightest of problems. A possessive Gopal cannot digest the fact that his wife has some other man as her best friend. His suspicious instincts get into action and he accuses Radha of infidelity. Suraj's attempts at cracking some sense into Gopal's head fall flat. And Gopal goes as far as chucking her out of the house and getting divorce papers ready.

After all the mellow-drama, as expected, the film takes the quintessential Hindi movie way. The couple patches up and towards the end one comes to know that Suraj has a blind girlfriend (Aishwarya Rai). One if unable to understand why Suraj hid his girlfriend's track from his bestest friend. Despite the mess, the end doesn't fail to bring a smile on the audience's faces -- not because it is anywhere near being heartening, but simply because, it’s good riddance.

Being based on one of the most raped themes in Bollywood, the film fails to create any excitement. Besides, the screenplay lacks pace and the treatment is shoddy. The characterisations are quite fragile. For instance, Gopal's suspiciousness doesn't go beyond Radha, making him nerdy hubby. And while Suraj is matured enough to share a relationship with a blind girl, he seemingly fails to comprehend the seriousness of tensions between Radha and Gopal, at times. Looks like Mr Director needs to realise he cannot sell make believe stuff.

Performances of the lead cast is the only redemption of the film. After all, experience speaks. Shah Rukh Khan handles lighter moments in the first half as well as heightened drama in the second half very well. Madhuri Dixit emotes brilliantly. But she certainly needed a better comeback. Salman Khan as usual fits the bill. As for the rest of the cast, everyone including Alok Nath, Aroona Irani, Atul Angnihothri and Suman Ranganathan are wasted.

Musically, baring the mindblowing title track, the songs are strictly ok.
All in all, watch it only if you are a Madhuri, SRK or Sallu fan. Else simply give it a miss.



By Alka Shukla

 

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