Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love

This is a good movie.A good family flick with a lot of strong emotions.

Story is simple with a lot of great performances.Both Amitabh and Akshay have given great performances.Supporting cast like Rakhee,Juhi Chawala have given good performances.Karishma is also pretty good and looks completely beautiful through out.Others like the 3 daughters are quite average.Mohnish Behl overacts completely.Sunil Shettys cameo was point less

Songs are good(with Ek Dil Hai being the best one ) and so are their Picturisations.Malayasian locales(in Dil Deewana no)and i think the Thai locales(in Dil Lagene Ki Saza)and also the Swiss locales in(Mohaabat Ne Mohabbat Ko)are a treat to the eyes

Everything else like the story,script,screenplay are good.Set designs and camera work is first rate

What a mixed up movie! They could have done so much with all the talent in this movie, but the path chosen was the clichéd ones. Even those are done badly. The actors do indeed do their part, but the director has totally messed this movie up. It was painful to sit through this movie. If I were you, I'd avoid this movie completely.

The movies starts out good, but after about half an hour, it goes downhill. Unnecessary twists, unnecessary drama, and contrived sub plots ruin it. Why do directors think that they can simply fill in time with garbage?

Editing is horrible, many of the scenes are simply unrealistic (even by bollywood standards), direction is very bad.

Once again, staying away from this is advisable.

The movie starts off quite well with excellent restrained performances by full cast including Amitabh and Akshay. The Amitabh fits prefectly in his role of a self-made, high-profile, hard-working buisnessman. Akshay deviating from his usual action/slap-stick-comedy roles, has done a commendable job as well educated, new generation son of Amitabh. The first half of the movie is good with well written script and good characterization.

Its the second half of the movie that reduces it to just another typical bollywood drama with loud acting, unrealistic situations and too predictable happy ending.

So overall 6 out of 10.

If you really don't know much about this movie,all you need to know that there is a song called 'Mohabbat Ne Mohabbat Ko' which is the best Hindi song of 2001.So go see Ek Rishtaa,just to watch the song sequence,the location in Switzerland is too worn out in every Hindi movie,but that is the only location of the song,which makes you see,there is beauty in simplicity!

Present day Bollywood movies have no feeling at all. At this one you feel the father-child bond.