What Happens when your partner demands some privacy, when your partner asks for a break in a relationship? But the question is, does relationships require space or a break ? Thats what the film is mainly based on.

Abhay Gulati(Imran Khan) and Aaliya Khan(Deepika Padukone), are childhood friends. And as is the case, their friendship turns into love. Aaliya is a girl who does what she feels is right while Abhay is more of reserved and calculated kinda of person who isnt sure what he actually wants. One day Aaliya takes the decision of taking a break from love relationship which Abhay finds wrong. How will Abhay convince Aaliya or will he allow Aaliya to take a break and what if she never comes back? The rest story deals with this.

The opening credits is very innovative but way too lengthy, a point comes when you want the film to start instead of credits going on and on. The references made to old films like Kuch Kuch hota hai or Pehla Nasha song etc were very well done. Infact, to speak of 1st Half was almost upto the mark.

It was the 2nd half that takes the film to a low. The director makes the proceedings look confusing and silly. And the attempted funny sequences by forcing a stupid character(shahana goswami's brother) doesnt help either.

As a debutant, Danish Aslam does fine work. He surely had a good concept in hand, but couldnt do complete justice to it. Screenplay was interesting. Editing could had been better.

Climax was very stupid, there was a chance to give it a totally different ending or even if the regular ending was to go by, the scenes should had been properly written.

Music was well used except for Dhoop ke Makaan which should had been used only once. And there was a clear situation to use Dont worry track which would had given the film some emotional angle.

There are few good sequences in the film like Abhay-Aaliya drunk scene, Aaliya's  Birthday, Aaliya and her mother arguement, Abhay's mother insisting him to move on.

Performances wise,

Imran Khan was pretty average. He himself keeps saying that he isnt that good at acting and that is visible too.   After a good performance in his last film, he sort of dissappoints here. The scene where he uses Punjabi accent sums up his acting in the film.

Deepika Padukone was excellent, probably among her best performances ever. Without a doubt her best this year. There were the usual scenes still there in film where she overacts, but those were very far and few.

Sharmila Tagore is superb, even in a small supporting role. Shahana Goswami is good. Lillette Dubey is very good, specially the pre-climax scene with Imran. Good to see Naveen Nischol in a film probably his first film after Khosla ka Ghosla, he was good as expected.


Overall, Break Ke Baad has very few good moments in the film which mainly come in 1st half only. Watch the film for Deepika Padukone if you are her fan, otherwise its a pretty below average film.


Rating : 2.35 Out of 5