![]() ![]() The wisdom applied to the romantic comedy might not strike as original or enlightening. This is the visual version of the messages inside Valentine's Day cards.Ĭrisp comebacks, usually from the characteristically cocky Karan Kapoor give the central romance a cute and cutting edge. But if they're looking for mellow moments and romantic resonance, as projected into a querulous companionship spanning several seasons and songs strung together into a pop-symphony, then "Hum Tum" it is. If audiences are looking for an adventurous plot then they'll return empty handed from "Hum Tum". "Hum Tum" treads that titillating line between gender war and gentle romance. He knows the man-woman relationship well enough to sketch a pungent comment on the oldest conundrum of civilization - What Do Women Want? - without resorting to farce or tragedy. But director Kohli, whose earlier film "Mujhse Dosti Karoge" was clogged with incongruities, gets all the pauses and punctuations right. ![]() The epic design doesn't weigh down the basic levity of the romantic comedy.Īnd what we end up looking at isn't so much a celebration of universal love as two clumsy people grappling with the grammar of the emotion called love and who don't get the punctuations right. Kohli nurtures his two protagonists' stormy relationship through several continents and a gigantic time zone that spawns more than a decade (though neither Saif nor Rani bring a change in their look or attitude, except maybe in Saif's hairstyle). Its greatest USP is its disarming lack of guile. "Hum Tum" is a boy-meets-girl tale with no unexpected twists and turns. "And they lived unhappily ever after".could well be the tag line to Kunal Kohli's engrossing take on the celluloid war which begins with a bang - in more ways than one - and ends with a sigh. ![]()
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