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Spicezee Bureau

New Delhi, Aug 15: Yash Raj Film’s (YRF’s) latest offering ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’, which was expected to revive their fortune, proves to be a dampner but it may work thanks to the three-day holiday.

Bachna… is YRF’s second release this year after the debacle of ‘Tashan’. The film peeps into the life of Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor), a girl crazy boy of sorts. The film covers his life from 18 till he turns 30 years old. Raj, at 18 is a young boy from Punjab who has just passed out from school and the only thing he can think about is girls! The guy heads to Switzerland for a trip with friends just to have fun (did I say DDLJ?), with other things on the backburner ad he bumps into Mahi (Minissha Lamba) who hails from Amritsar. Things happen but Raj moves on. Though, Minissha tries hard to replicate Preity Zinta, but she fails visibly. What’s worse is her soggy chemistry with the Kapoor lad. End of episode one.

Then enters Radhika played by Bipasha Basu. Thankfully, this one is a little better than the first one. Bipasha manages a decent performance despite an obvious age gap between her and Ranbir. Raj, the non-serious womaniser moves on yet again as he is in a hurry to climb the ladder and is an escapist when it comes to commitment. But he leaves behind two girls whose heart he has broken. End of episode two.

Episode three begins and he meets Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) and finally (for gods sake!!) falls truly, madly and deeply for this taxi driver (gimme a break!). But as they say, the path of true love doesn't ever run smoothly and Raj realises the disastrous consequences of his past.

All that can be said about this one is – it could’ve been much better, had it been for a better script and a little more of thought gone into it. Who would want to see a tale about women who could never get over their first love in the times, when women dump men as soon as they get a cue of what they have on their minds.

Ranbir tries extremely hard to put soul into his character and is quite successful with it as he does full justice to the Raj’s portrayal. But one is disappointed when he hams a little in a few scenes, tries too hard in some and believe it or not actually lisps in some scenes (a put off for sure, after all who would want a guy who calls misunderstanding ‘mishundershtanding’?). Dude, you really need to do something about that before people take it to be your trademark. As for Deepika, she is just fine (no more can be said for her).

The music is fairly hummable, thanks to Vishal-Shekhar. The direction is honest but Siddharth Anand should be looking at something else the next time. So in short, it is a stylish looking movie with not much substance but worth a watch. Catch it if you want to travel across Europe for a mere sum of 100 bucks! Two cheers for this one.