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Monday 28 August 2017

Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha (2004)

A Bollywood remake of Return to Me (2000), an English language film starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver that I've no intention of ever watching.
In the Hindi version Rishabh and Parineeta (Khan and Zinta) are in love, the contrived, too perfect kind that makes an onlooker sick with revulsion.
It's a callous thing to say but I was glad when the inevitable tragedy screwed them; the reason being that what followed at least had the potential to be less mediocre. Alas, the potential was equally watered down. The basic idea remained entirely basic, challenging nothing but an endurance for blandness.
A viewer who's less critical and more sentimental than I am may be able to derive something they consider worthwhile from the film, but they'll need also to be more forgiving of plodding narratives and shoddy editing.

2 pretty Preity pictures out of 5

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