Popular Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan's directing debut starts out the kind of forced, formulaic romantic comedy Hollywood churns out for stars like Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller. But Devgan negotiates the film's abrupt turn into tear-jerking tragedy (via developments that owe no small debt to Nicholas Sparks'
The Notebook) with remarkable skill, and its third-act revelations recast the opening sequence in an affecting new light.
Smitten by a girl he spots on a buffet line, teenaged Aman (Aditya Rajput) responds to his father's well-meaning advice about romance by daring him to chat up a stranger, choosing a middle-aged woman reading The Thorn Bi...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
165 mins