Directed by Gautham Menon
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126282/
Jo hua woh kamaal tha, jo hai woh kamaal hai.. Aur jo hoga woh bhi kamaal hoga. Ab Dard se bhi mujhe pyar ho jayega!
A story based on love at first sight with a south touch to it. You should watch 'Directors Cut' version to have any chance of connecting or liking the movie. The popular version will more or less leave you dissappointed.
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126282/
Jo hua woh kamaal tha, jo hai woh kamaal hai.. Aur jo hoga woh bhi kamaal hoga. Ab Dard se bhi mujhe pyar ho jayega!
A story based on love at first sight with a south touch to it. You should watch 'Directors Cut' version to have any chance of connecting or liking the movie. The popular version will more or less leave you dissappointed.
A engineering graduate student, Sachin (Pratiek Babbar) loves watching films and takes it a dream to make films, something his father doesn't like. He along with his family shifts to Juhu getting a apartment for rent. He falls in love the moment he sees Jessie (Amy Jackson), only to discover various reasons that won't make it work for him. But, his madness for the love keeps increasing and he ends up proposing Jessie, who refuses and asks him to be just friends. Sachin has to make Jessie fall in love with him or she would get married to someone else proposed by their family.
Its one of those films which has quotient of great scenes, as well as average scenes. And the main reason for the average scenes is the lead pair Pratiek and Amy. Amy fails due to the dubbing voice which just looks too fake. She looks very beautiful though especially in suits, saree at times was not suiting her. Also, her make-up was too much at some sequences. While Pratiek is somehow indifferent throughout, which I least expected after becoming a sort of fan of him with Dhobi Ghat. There is a certain dislike that comes instantly with Pratiek's dialogue delivery at places.
Also, there is a lack of chemistry between Pratiek and Amy, mainly because of the fact that I loved Pratiek-Manu sequences a lot.
The scene where Sachin falls in love with Jessie at first sight, I feel wasn't properly directed. Its not that I am against the 'love at 1st sight' theory, but it looked bit too unreal watching in the film. Thanks to Hossanna song (leaving the starting), that I started to connect to Sachin's love. And change of heart twice by Jessie completely made me question her love, especially the 2nd time around. Hard to digest such love.
The screenplay isn't impressive as it keeps reducing whatever effect some of the dialogue sequences between Sachin and Jessie bring with all the dreamy dance sequences put together as a montage, be it 'Dost hai hum toh' or the train song. Also, the dialogues are pretty average.
Rahman's music is very pleasant even though the magnitude of impact is very small as compared to Rockstar (quite expected). 'Sharminda hoon' brings the loving moments both Sachin and Amy share together with the challenges they know ahead of them, best picturised song in the film. Hossana is beautiful, a guy falling in love at 1st sight. Aromale, my personal favourite song used very well in the narrative. Dost hai picturisation doesn't work for me.
Background score wasn't top notch as I thought it would be.
Sachin watches Jessie for 1st time, the first conversation with Jessie along with her sister, Sachin trying to control his love feelings in train, Sachin watching Jessie get married in church, the boat sequence with Sachin feeling on the top of the world, and the Taj Mahal sequence are some of the best moments from the film.
Among supporting cast, Sachin Khedekar is good, the scene where he says 'main film-maker banunga, jessie mujhse pyar karegi' was one of my favs. Manu Rishi is excellent, specially the 'border' song scene.
Babu Anthony completely looks like father of a kerela girl, and acted fine. Though watching him as well as Jessie brother, gave the feel of south film.
Overall, Ekk Deewana Tha is a average film despite liking many portions of the film.
Verdict : AVERAGE
The scene where Sachin falls in love with Jessie at first sight, I feel wasn't properly directed. Its not that I am against the 'love at 1st sight' theory, but it looked bit too unreal watching in the film. Thanks to Hossanna song (leaving the starting), that I started to connect to Sachin's love. And change of heart twice by Jessie completely made me question her love, especially the 2nd time around. Hard to digest such love.
The screenplay isn't impressive as it keeps reducing whatever effect some of the dialogue sequences between Sachin and Jessie bring with all the dreamy dance sequences put together as a montage, be it 'Dost hai hum toh' or the train song. Also, the dialogues are pretty average.
Rahman's music is very pleasant even though the magnitude of impact is very small as compared to Rockstar (quite expected). 'Sharminda hoon' brings the loving moments both Sachin and Amy share together with the challenges they know ahead of them, best picturised song in the film. Hossana is beautiful, a guy falling in love at 1st sight. Aromale, my personal favourite song used very well in the narrative. Dost hai picturisation doesn't work for me.
Background score wasn't top notch as I thought it would be.
Sachin watches Jessie for 1st time, the first conversation with Jessie along with her sister, Sachin trying to control his love feelings in train, Sachin watching Jessie get married in church, the boat sequence with Sachin feeling on the top of the world, and the Taj Mahal sequence are some of the best moments from the film.
Among supporting cast, Sachin Khedekar is good, the scene where he says 'main film-maker banunga, jessie mujhse pyar karegi' was one of my favs. Manu Rishi is excellent, specially the 'border' song scene.
Babu Anthony completely looks like father of a kerela girl, and acted fine. Though watching him as well as Jessie brother, gave the feel of south film.
Overall, Ekk Deewana Tha is a average film despite liking many portions of the film.
Verdict : AVERAGE
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