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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Cocktail: A Love Triangle for the nth time


Imtiaz Ali is a good writer and romance is his forte but it’s probably a writer’s thing when he chose to follow his characters’ life rather painfully instead of getting through with it while every one of us including him could see how it all ends miles before it actually ends. Damn!! I had to buy more pop corn.

Basically what more could you add into a classic love triangle that has not been explored umpteen number of times by our very own Bollywood. If you got the answer right, the makers beat you to it. It’s the clothes. And other than that and some great music Cocktail has nothing new to offer right down to Second Hand Jawani. Liking the film depends on how badly you want to see Saif and Diana reunite at the end and how Deepika gets to play and lend so much dignity and vivacity to Veronica. I can’t remember if I liked her personally in a film ever but this has to be the one for me.

As far as love stories go this is pretty much as per the textbook but the excellence of men behind it makes it a superior film that celebrates its irreverence. The women in this film get meaty roles and are competent. But Imtiaz and Adajania, two men who gave Saif his better roles earlier have got this one off target for him. Saif looks a bit too old and a bit too suave to play Gautam Kapoor and doesn’t charm as much as the film portrays him to be. I guess no one has to start all over again with Boman Irani. He is a delight and so is Dimple.

Locations and visuals show a lot of exuberance and adding to them are the tastefully choreographed songs. There is really no way this one could have been better except that it could have been shorter. But that is only meant to say that it gets done pretty soon. It makes for a good time with a girl friend in a cozy multiplex recliner but that can be any film.

Bottom line: Not the stuff of the names on the posters.

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