Main Aisa Hi Hoon

The kind of Father, to a drug addicted mother is enough for a court to rule decision in Fathers favour.

The support father has from masses. The love daughter gets from friends never needs a real family. All this also add to rule decision in Fathers favour.

Despite such storyline, the twist at end is unnecessary and ambigous. Thus settling with mentioned stars.

Music is good. A flick well altered for viewing audience.

A Hindi remake of "I Am Sam". Ajay Devgan showed alent in a genre much different from his typical action/thriller/horror. He is endearing, and I liked his performance. He has some good chemistry with Sushmita, and is overall, a great performer. Sushmita Sen is disappointing. She looks very glamorous, but fails to provide any proper acting entertainment. The little girl got on my nerves, though she is kinda cute.

Music is average, though I like a few songs. Interestingly, many songs are in English, which surprised me, I was not expecting it. I don't like it though, I'm sure many people would have preferred them in Hindi.

Its a candyfloss comedy/drama, and sickly sweet. Be prepared.

Movie is Good Except Some Religious Scene of Drugs with OM Tatoo, Yoga with Rudraksha Mala + Praying only towards One God when most of the characters are from other religion In Convent school they have there Statue but it is little weird none of them prayed at home or at temple Well it was made in 2005 & many people are not aware about these thing's & they don't have Social Media Sometimes Local Societal Groups talks about these issues Movie also Show's how Family, Society effects Child Mind Song's are also Good But now thing's are changing for better in many directions Hope our Future shines like Star's.

Main Aisa Hi Hoon continues a number of recent and not-so recent disturbing trends for Bollywood films. But in the end, it is saved somewhat by decent performances.

Most disturbing is the trend for producing uncredited remakes of American films. This is a remake of the far superior I Am Sam (2001). The copyright law in India must be such that it's impossible or at least not worthwhile to sue for these infringements, but artistic integrity and ethics would suggest giving credit where it is due.

As bad as the ethical problems is the fact that not many of these uncredited remakes are as good as the films they're stealing from. In Bollywoodizing them and sanitizing them so that they're more acceptable to Indian culture, the producers, writers and directors suggest that they often do not understand what made the films work in the first place.

There are a number of such changes in converting I Am Sam to Bollywood that are made to reflect conventional Indian morality and social myths. Here, the main character's one night stand was changed into a very muddled, longer-term relationship; the main character having difficulty coping in normal society was changed into a unbelievable, flawless social support system; questionable philosophical stances built into the system were mostly changed into a vindictive would-be father in law; and an unexpected, budding romance was drained of nearly all development and justification, not to mention that it's capped with a ridiculous bit of plotting at the end.

Other stereotypical stylistic changes were made, too, in order to make this a very non-challenging Bollywood film. Songs were added, of course, and although most of the lyrics are a relatively unusual and thus admirable attempt to say something relevant to the dramatic material, the songs and often the style in which they're performed are almost always sorely out of place. Also, melodrama is cranked up to the point of irritation, often accompanied by ridiculous musical or sound effects cues--Bollywood filmmakers seem to believe that their audiences are so stupid that they will not pick up on anything unless they beat them over the head with it. The concern for adding songs, melodrama and making the film not so controversial for Indian audiences resulted in often forgetting the need to tell a story that makes sense for these characters as they are presented. Storytelling should be the first concern in film-making. Concentrate on that and forget about making a combination soap opera/variety show with pointless "fancy" camera work (such as shots of the main character's house sideways and upside down).

Maybe surprisingly then, the acting in Main Aisa Hi Hoon is actually pretty good. Ajay Devgan is not nearly as convincing in the role as Sean Penn was, but especially as the film progresses, he turns in a moving, heartfelt performance. Sushmita Sen, Esha Deol and Anupam Kher are also impressive, especially in light of the fact that Bollywood actors are usually encouraged to overact rather than turn in a nuanced, understated performance. I also enjoyed the music, even though the breaks in the story to sing a song didn't fit very well.

Still, it's difficult to recommend Main Aisa Hi Hoon. Anyone interested in this story should just watch I Am Sam instead. And please, Bollywood, break some formulas, take some chances, and stop ripping off other films.

Yes OK so it's a take off (rip off?) of I am Sam). Big deal. On the whole it's a good film, but yes I couldn't empathize with the ending as it was seemingly rushed and forced.

I really loved the songs, especially "Walk into my life" and "Mere Papa" (ok, so I love the songs in our Hindi movies!).

Anyway all the actors were really good. Ajay Devgan is superb as Neel. Sush and Esha are great too. The kid is sweet but a bit too precocious at times. Blame it on Harry I guess.

The supporting cast did a great job too.

Yes it's almost scene for scene a remake of I am Sam. That aside, I have to say I'm more partial to Ajay Devgan than Sean Penn, but that's just me.

Personally this would have been better done as a sequel to Koi Mil Gaya rather than just a copy of an American film.