Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya...

One of the finest movies ever. How come the rating is 5.7? Urmila is at her best. The only weak link is Fardeen Khan.

Pyar Tune Kya Kiya, one of the most eagerly awaited releases of 2001, begs to differ from the regular Bollywood run-of-the mill potboiler.

Instead of whipping up a candy-floss romance between 2 NRI adolescents, the debutante director tells the tale of a head-strong rich bitch who loses it all on discovering that her objet d'amour is a happily married man ! The psychotic miss then makes life HELL for the love birds until the saga climaxes in to a very gripping finalé !

Sounds good ? Errr ... well ! Not really. The tale incorporates an extremely avoidable series of comic (??) scenes in the first half which leaves the audience pondering over its relevance to the film. The director miserably fails in his attempt of providing comic relief by way of the "CHOTA VAKEEL" scenes which, in fact, drive you up the wall !

On the PLUS side, we have a SUPER music score by Sandeep Chowtha. The songs Kambakht Ishq and the title track, though unnecessary to the plot, are very hummable and catchy 'n' extremely well shot. Amongst the performances, Urmila is top-notch as the head-strong femme fatale. Apart from looking WHITE-HOT in the work-out and modeling scenes, she adds several dimensions to her challenging role. The surprise package is however Sonali Kulkarni who charms her way into your heart with her tinkering laughter and her dainty ways after playing Hrithik Roshan's mother in Mission Kashmir. Fardeen, though not particularly gifted as an actor, is easy on the eyes and has a friendly 'n' flirtatious screen presence.

All in all, it's a flick worth a watch provided you are prepared to take a nap while the ridiculous 'Chhota Vakeel' scenes play on !!

Indian film industry has done it again. Rather than coming up with new ideas, they are copying the hollywood movies and making money. This film is the copy of "fatal attraction" english movie with some spicy scenes at the beginning. It was OK for the first time, but I would not see it again.

Ram Gopal Verma does a superb job of creating one of the finest inspired movies. He's mentioned in numerous interviews about the source being one of his favorite films. Mind you, I said inspiration, NOT ripoff. Copycat directors could learn from this example what the difference is between an inspiration and a ripoff. Unfortunately, Verma has been more recently pulled into the ripoff wagon too (e.g. Sarkar).

Back to 'Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya', Rajat Mukherjee gives a fine directorial debut. The story can be seen as a character study of three people but that does not give the plot less importance. The characters are brilliantly defined and the plot is coherent and keeps you engaged.

Chandan Arora's editing is quite impressive. Although maybe the first song could have been left out. Even though the main plot in the screenplay is quite intense, the humour element provides some comic relief (thanks to Rajpal Yadav).

Fardeen Khan, though does not exactly give a great performance, one can see that the actor is trying and he deserves credit for that. Sonali Kulkarni is bubbly, elegant and adorable. She does her part very well. But, 'Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya' belongs to Urmila Matondkar. This is one of the finest performances of a complex character and Urmila is flawless as an obsessive borderliner. She seems to play the part naturally. She balances her non-verbal expressions (expressive eyes, awkward gait, tone of voice etc) and her dialogue delivery is superb. It really makes one appreciate the art of acting. Suresh Oberoi is very good as the father.

Writer Rajat Mukherjee deserves credit for creating such human characters. We see that Jai is a nice person but he does have the attitude of constantly flirting with colleagues, Geeta is the loving wife but she doubts Jai's fidelity and Ria who even though isn't mentally stable, has a light side and she was quite happy when she was modelling for Jai but her thoughts were quite black and white (typical thinking of a borderliner) and she was very stubborn.

Music is impressive. Though the first song is good and introduces Fardeen's character, it could be avoided to shorten the film but it's not necessarily a bad addition. Urmila again dances mesmerizingly in Kambakt Ishq. Alisha's Roundey is flawlessly sung and dictate the thoughts of Ria very well.

All in all, this is one of the finest drama-thrillers and surely worth a watch because of the fine screenplay, excellent performances, impressive direction, good music and it's worth the time.

I would rate this film not exactly as "Time Pass", but above that, watchable, if you want to see something new or "Hat Ke", rather then hurting yourself will all the run-of-mill stories.

The first half of movie drags while the second half has more pace that it should have been. Also, there was no reason to introduce comic relief in form of the non-sense "Chhota Vakeel" stuff. It is ridiculous that Indian Directors still cannot come out of notion that there "Should Be" a comedy in movie, whether it seems appropriate or not.

One can feel that Urmila is doing the sequel to her role in "Kaun". However, character of "Jai" is portrayed in a very good manner, with all the weaknesses and down-to-earth nature, rather then depicting him as a typical Hindi movie "Hero". Other characters give in their fair share.

On an whole, a nice movie, if you want to see something different. I should appreciate Ram Gopal Verma and Rajat Mukherjee for coming out with some different stuff. Next, time they should concentrate on building more solid story line. Perhaps, they could have taken clue from Yash Chopras "Darr" (Which ironically fails in second half)