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Kyun! Ho Gaya Naa: Old story new cast

Aish in KHGNIntroducing a new star cast at new locales with moth-eaten scripts does not always work, especially when the director is making his debut. But precisely this has happened in “Kyon Ho Gaya Na”.

If director Samir Karnik is hoping to cash in on the real life chemistry between Vivek Oberoi and Aishwarya Rai, he will be disappointed. The couple has not unleashed much charm on the screen.

He loves her. She loves him not. But eventually she falls in love. The End. She wants ‘love marriage’. He wants ‘arranged marriage’ (a proposition past its vintage, given the film’s urbane, chic setting).

Vivek is not bad as he plays a mischievous, but good-humoured Arjun. The concept of love is alien to him and he wants to get married to a girl of his parents’ choice. But Aishwarya’s expressions are deadpan. In curly hairs, she throughout wears a dreamy look. Since watching Arjun spreading schoolboyish charm is not enough, the wait for the second half begins quite early.

Vivek & Aish in KHGNEnter Amitabh Bachchan, but alas, he does no good to lift our spirits or induce a twist. On the contrary, the pace slackens further. The director has confined himself to distributing toffees and making food for a group of children, seemingly inspired from Pogo TV channel. Om Puri, as usual, leaves an impression .Tinnu Anand too appears for a while to display a ferocious, yet fatherly, smile. Lyrics by Javed Akhtar are average.

A fair fraction of the fresh-lime zing between Kareena Kapoor and Oberoi in Mani Ratnam’s Yuva (to quote a recent example) could have lifted Kyun! Ho Gaya Naa… to a tenable ‘timepass’.


Rating: * *

CREDITS
Dir: Sameer Karnik
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan
 
Rating Index: * * * * * Just brilliant * * * * A cut above * * * Enjoyable
* * Average * Bomb


 



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