Teri Meri Kahaani Movie Review

[bollywood]

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Prachi Desai

Director: Kunal Kohli

Ratings : ***1/2

A self-declared Yash Chopra fan, Kunal Kohli has had a remarkable career thus far. He didn’t have a great beginning with MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE, but surprised one and all with his dexterity in films like HUM TUM and FANAA. THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC couldn’t restructure the magic of HUM TUM, but all eyes are on his new outing TERI MERI KAHAANI. The question is, will he be able to strike a chord this time?

Preceding its release, the tittle-tattle went on an overdrive asserting that TERI MERI KAHAANI bears a striking semblance to the 2005 Taiwanese film THREE TIMES, which featured three chronologically separate love stories. Both, the Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed project and Kunal’s film are positioned over three time frames where the hero and the heroine find love in different circumstances. While the Taiwanese film was set in 1911, 1966 and 2005, TERI MERI KAHAANI is set in 1910, 1960 and present-day U.K.

There is no doubt in the fact that the movie falls flat for its weak plot and storyline which offers nothing new to the audience which they would take home and cherish for days. There is no sense of chronology as the narrative begins with 1960, moves to 2012 and then, bizarrely, comes back to 1910.

Sunil Patel’s cinematography in the movie is just breathtaking . Apart from lead actors, the supporting stars like Prachi Desai and Neha Sharma too have done a good job. Costume designers Manish Malhotra, Kunal Rawal needs a special mention as they have done a marvellous job to make the 1910 and 60′s characters look more realistic and genuine. Priyanka looks stunning and is a perfect fit as the typical sixties heroine in some very beautiful sparkly costumes. And Shahid looks very dapper and dashing.

Teri Meri Kahaani gives the male protagonist another life and another chance to get things right. This time around the film travels all of a century back in time to Sargodha village, Lahore. So there we go – back to square one. Teri Meri Kahaani is pretty much like the loves of the film’s male protagonist – it pours out all it has. But what is has simply isn’t enough.