The craze level for this film increased with promos. So, there were some expectations, not sky high. And I wasnt happy with the film as it turned out to be.


The story revolves around 2 people, who have lost hopes of a good life, Akash(Ranbir) due to his bad tackling of Share business leading to loss while Kiara(Priyanka) coming to know about betrayal of her love. Both decide to die, and coincidentally meet at same death venue. But destiny keeps stopping them and as a result they decide to accept it, and abandon death for 20 days till 31st dec. Now, will 20 days make them realize importance of life or not, is what rest story is with dose of fun, romance and emotions.


I quite hated the way opening scenes begin. Though, have to appreciate the cinematography here, the way those scenes are presented with Ranbir walking in that dark night. Great camera angles too. But all the praise ends once Priyanka comes into the scene. The death attempts looked very silly, instead of being real.. I so loved the dialogue where Ranbir even says this to Priyanka.

After that, the film became a good watch, with aas paas khuda song and the wishes of Ranbir. But the film dies out in 2nd half, when it tries to land into the same old love-leaving-comes back stuff. Though, all this happens before a very good tumse hi song picturisation comes.

Rest part of film is pretty much slow, boring and uninteresting. Even the emotions dont come up for those scenes. To make it worse, tujhe bhula diya I feel was undone with a average picturisation. Though, a bonus of 2 lines was given in return.

Climax was sort of tribute to Titanic, infact at one time I thought it was going to be same too :d .. But I liked those water scenes, that one and one earlier where priyanka tells about her past. Those for me are the best directed scenes of the film.

Screenplay for me is the weakest link of this film. I feel story had in it to be presented well. Had the director gone for a new territory in 2nd half, the film would had been liked more, atleast by me. Editing was fine, cant blame too much.

Siddharth Anand needs to do a better job next time as a director, very average stuff this time by him. Songs were just used in such a bad way, it was like 3 songs in 25 mins during 2nd half. Wonder what that was done for, or maybe they never saw one final draft of the film else editing would had been done.

Having said all this, cant take away some of very good scenes of the film, apart from those water sequences and Tumse hi song, loved the disco sequence, the one where Ranbir tells his wish and ofcourse the doctor's speech to Ranbir.


Performances wise,

Priyanka Chopra was quite good though little bit inconsistent. And same for Ranbir Kapoor. Maybe thats the reason I quite liked their pairing while watching the film, as both were doing mistakes and at same time doing great scenes too. Zayed Khan was nice in a cameo. Maybe small roles works better for him.

Overall, Anjaana Anjaani is worth your money till 1st half, after that change theatre and see Robot's 2nd half because you are most likely to sleep aneways in 2nd half of Anjaana Anjaani. Better luck next time Siddharth, you dissappointed me this time for sure.


Rating : 2.25 Out of 5