Milenge Milenge - Movie review

Milenge Milenge
U/A; Romance
Dir: Satish Kaushik
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapur, Satish Shah
Rating: '



What's it about: Watching Milenge Milenge is like revisiting an era when calling your son 'beta ji', pulling pranks in the college canteen, or dressing up as a girl to visit their hostel was considered 'cool'. A desi adaptation of the John Cusack-Kate Beckinsale classic Serendipity, the film follows Immie (Shahid) and Priya (Kareena) as they leave their future to fate. Whether it's letting a Rs 50 note decide their destiny or banking on an elevator to decide if Rab has made their Jodi, the film lacks in originality.

What's hot: If you miss the garish costumes, jarring songs and badly choreographed numbers of the late '90s, then MM might help you go down memory lane. Break-up or no break-up, Shahid and Kareena seem to have an easy comfort around each other. Fans of the actors might want to make a trip to just see them in the same frame (knowing it won't happen again!).u00a0

What's not: When the lead actor smokes to show his coolness quotient, we know the attempt is an epic fail. Even if the film had released six years back, it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Supporting actors like Kirron Kher and Satish Shah are reduced to playing caricatures out of Comedy Circus. Watching the size zero queen with plump cheeks and an oddly bulked up Shahid dressed up in singlets is too disturbing a visual to deal with. Songs pop out of nowhere and are excruciatingly long. Performance-wise while Shahid and Kareena are earnest, they just remind us how far they've come from their bad dialogue delivery to the Kaminey and Kurbaan days.

What to do: An unfortunate case of 'too little too late' the film is a lost cause on every front.