Ek Main Aur Ek Tu Review

[bollywood]

Director: Shakun Batra

Star Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan, Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah

Ayesha Devitre and Shakun Batra’s story is quite new for the Indian audience because here, a girl and a boy get married and then come close to each other during the period needed to end the marriage. Their screenplay is designed to appeal mainly to the youngsters in the cities. In other words, the drama, like the thought, is very urbane and while it will be enjoyed by the multiplex and city audiences, it won’t quite be lapped up or, in some cases, even understood too well by the audience in the smaller centres and of the single-screens.

The first half starts off very well and the target audience enjoys the introduction of the various principal characters and the squabbles between Rahul and Riana. But the pre-interval portion also has its weak moments as it becomes slow after a point of time. The second half is much better and several scenes stand out for their brilliant conception, enactment and, of course, execution. Perhaps, the best part of the screenplay is that it is fresh and, therefore, not predictable, a quality very evident in the climax too. Among the truly well-written scenes are the one in which Rahul and Riana have a misunderstanding in India, the showdown of Rahul with his parents, the one in which Rahul’s dad knots the tie for his son and the initial scenes of Rahul with his parents in Las Vegas. Dialogues, penned by the duo, are entertaining and, again, will be enjoyed more by the city folk.