I don't normally write movie reviews on my blog, but the masterpiece I watched a couple of days ago truly deserved a mention. Here's review I felt essential to post onto Rotten Tomatoes--
Satish Kaushik's Milenge Milenge should go down in the annals of history for being the perfect throwback to the 70s in the 21st century. And I don't mean that in a good way.
Lets begin with its "inspiration" from Serendipity(2001). Now while that was a passably likable movie , a clichéd plot, dull songs, and tired performances ensure that all similarities end there. The same old hero , with the same old "devil may care" attitude, that supposedly makes him cool, the same old heroine, with her "someone somewhere is made for me" attitude and a bunch of geeky , dorky friends, who lack even an ounce of character, and nothing more than props make this excuse of a movie more unbearable than it was meant to be.
I looked hard for a single frame in the movie that would interest me or seem logical, but I failed miserably. The entire premise of the movie is a joke. Why an audience would want to accept a person who wants to make fun of someone's beliefs and plays cruel practical jokes as a protagonist is beyond me.
To add to it, the music is slow, boring and soulless. The performances are pathetic, and absolutely unconvincing. Both Kapoors look like they were on their way to mainstream good cinema, and got lost. No one else is even worth a mention.
Oh and did I mention a certain comic character who is supposed to be funny because he has a South Indian accent? Not his character, not a situation, but his accent. I thought we had left the 1970s behind. Clearly Satish Kaushik wasn't given that update.
All in all, Milenge Milenge na hi mila toh behetar hai.
Satish Kaushik's Milenge Milenge should go down in the annals of history for being the perfect throwback to the 70s in the 21st century. And I don't mean that in a good way.
Lets begin with its "inspiration" from Serendipity(2001). Now while that was a passably likable movie , a clichéd plot, dull songs, and tired performances ensure that all similarities end there. The same old hero , with the same old "devil may care" attitude, that supposedly makes him cool, the same old heroine, with her "someone somewhere is made for me" attitude and a bunch of geeky , dorky friends, who lack even an ounce of character, and nothing more than props make this excuse of a movie more unbearable than it was meant to be.
I looked hard for a single frame in the movie that would interest me or seem logical, but I failed miserably. The entire premise of the movie is a joke. Why an audience would want to accept a person who wants to make fun of someone's beliefs and plays cruel practical jokes as a protagonist is beyond me.
To add to it, the music is slow, boring and soulless. The performances are pathetic, and absolutely unconvincing. Both Kapoors look like they were on their way to mainstream good cinema, and got lost. No one else is even worth a mention.
Oh and did I mention a certain comic character who is supposed to be funny because he has a South Indian accent? Not his character, not a situation, but his accent. I thought we had left the 1970s behind. Clearly Satish Kaushik wasn't given that update.
All in all, Milenge Milenge na hi mila toh behetar hai.
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