Director : Barnali Ray Shukla
Music : Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
Starring : Rahul Bose, Shifaali Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Manmeet Singh, Kunal Kumar, Amin Hajee and Om Puri
Why would two perfectly good actors want to ruin their reputations by acting in utter tripe? All right, so the lead actress is the Producer's very talented wife who wants to showcase her sexier side. And the lead actor is a good sport. But that is no excuse for this road trip gone bad between an uptown corporate wife and a downtown Hitman.
The movie is so excruciatingly embarrassing that you're forced to look at accessories. Shefali Shah begins with a dumpy bag, then has no bag, then has a Louis Vuitton, then has both. Rahul Bose begins with a canvas bag then has a leather laptop bag and then has nothing at all. Shah gets to wear a pretty lavender wrapover dress which shows her cleavage to great effect. Her hair is bouncy, coloured and very very big.
She can't decide whether to put it up or down, toss it back or just leave it as it is. Bose barely speaks, which is good because when he does it's an indecipherable accent, which is his version of how a Mumbai hitman would speak but just sounds very much like a good Bengali Bhadralok speaking Hindi to the natives.
The movie is all about a bored homemaker "whose problem is that she has no problem"-whatever that means. She has a seemingly perfect life but is dissatisfied possibly because she doesn't get enough sex but this movie is too polite to go all the way.
It could have been an honest examination of a middle class homemaker's coming of age sexually but this movie is too hamfisted for that. It has no confidence to be what it set out to be. It's too concerned about being seen as marketable. So it throws in a shootout, a cheap moll (Neetu Chandra really has to stop playing such roles), and a chase in a red Swift.
A little consumerism, a lot of shopping, some pop psychology and some almost-kisses and the movie is done. Of course everyone ends up happy. The hitman, the homemaker and her single income double kids family.
Everyone except the audience.
Music Review
It's raining (read reigning) rom-com !!! Year 2011 is turning out to be a year of youthful, experimental and romantic comedies that dare to challenge the stereotypes. After producing lavish flicks with a bunch of A-list actors, producer Vipul Amrutlal Shah chooses experimental path and delivers out a bizarre looking rom-com titled "KUCCH LUV JAISAA".
Despite its low profile and almost zilch expectations, the names of Pritam and Irshad Kamil on the credits promise to create a surprise for all listeners. Against all odds, on musical front, there were few big surprises this year and this flick too looks different and special.
Pritam's formidable pairing with Irshad Kamil in the last few years was highly fruitful, delivering out bunch of melodies that turned out to be big chartbusters. Will this be another winner from the prolific looking Musical Team? Just wait, listen and decide...as we introspect into its musical facts !!!
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