MOVIE REVIEW-U ME AUR HUM

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Movie Title: U Me aur Hum

Director and Producer: Ajay Devgan

Music: Vishal Bharadwaj

Dialouges: Ashwani Dheer

Story and Writer: Ajay Devgan, Akash Khurana, Robin Bhatt and Sutanu Gupta

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Divya Dutta, Sumeet Raghavan, Karan Khanna, Isha Sharwani, Sachin Khedekar, Aditya Rajput and Hazel.

U Me aur Hum was hugely publicized, but it had high hype too. So, let’s see what the hype was about.

• Ajay devgan makes his directorial debut.

• Kajol’s onscreen paring with husband Ajay Devgan after a very long time. They were last seen together in their home production Raju chacha.

• Kajol appears on the big screen after almost three years. She was last seen in Fanaa.(I’m not counting the special appearances she did in Om Shanti Om and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna)

You may ask, ‘with all the hype and publicity, does ‘U Me aur Hum’ live up to the expectations?’ The answer is ‘yes’.

I’m not going to tell you the entire story like other reviews, because it spoils the entire movie watching experience. Let me make it short. U Me aur Hum is about Pia(kajol), an Alzheimer’s patient, and the person who loves her the most Ajay(ajay devgan), her husband. It’s about the painful journey they go through, and how they live happily ever after. The movie is about love, trust and hope.

But ill tell some part of the story..

U Me aur Hum is a love story about Ajay (Ajay Devgan) who falls in love at first sight with Piya (Kajol) on a cruise. In the first half of the movie we see a typical Bollywood romance with Ajay wooing Piya. The second half becomes intense which shows that marriage is only successful when both husband and wife stand for each in their times of distress.

Ajay is psychiatrist who is on a vacation trip with is friends and their respective spouses (Karan Khanna, Sumeet Raghavan, Isha Sharvani and Divya Dutta). Piya (Kajol) is a waitress in the cruise bar and when Ajay spots Piya he falls head over heels in love with her. Piya a strong-headed girl rejects Ajay’s advances. But Ajay is so much smitten by Piya that he tries every trick to woo her which includes trespassing into her cabin and reading her personal diary: Book of Possibilities. Psychiatrist by profession he uses the right tactics to win Piya’s heart. Piya finally falls for him but when he confesses her about reading her diary and using it to get her all hell breaks loose and Ajay is left alone.

But destiny brings them back together again and this time they end up marrying. Marriage for Piya and Ajay is like heaven and soon they become an ideal husband and wife for their friends. But as everything good comes to an end their marriage life starts getting complicated and another nail in the coffin is Piya’s illness: ‘Alzheimer’. How Piya and Ajay save their marriage and love forms the rest of the story.

The story of the movie is told in a flashback by Ajay Devgan, which adds charm to the movie. Aswan Whir does justice to the U Me aur Hum by rendering witty humorous dialogues to thought-provoking ones with great finesse. Ajay Devgan is terrific both in front of the camera as well as back of it. Kajol is as always awesome in her performance as an Alzheimer suffering young lady and is a strong contender for this year’s best actress award. Supporting actors irritate you a bit and there is nothing much to write about them.

Now, the technical aspects and cast of the movie:

• Director: Ajay Devgan makes a fine director. He shows the same level of intensity which we see in his acting. He joins the group of actors-turned-fine-directors.

• Music: Vishal Bharadwaj’s music is too ordinary. Probably Ajay should have got some happening music director like Pritam or Shankar-Ehsan-Loy. Lyrics like ‘saheli jaisa sayyan’ make no sense.

• Cinematography: This is one field I’m totally impressed. The cinematography can be compared to the best of Hollywood. The camera moves at such angles that it’s a delight to watch. Watch the way they have taken the ariel shots of the cruise.

• Dialogues: Dialogues are excellent, but sometimes they get taxing, especially when they try too hard to rhyme. All that rhyming dialogues are good only if the movie has one or two, but U Me aur Hum has way too many.

Cast

• Ajay Devgan: Ajav Devgan delivers a powerhouse performance. But something says to me that Shahrukh Khan would have done it better, because the role was tailor-made for him. By the way, I’m not saying that Ajay is bad.

• Kajol: Everyone knows that Kajol is an excellent actress. She proves it yet again by delivering one of the best performances of her career. Playing Alzheimer’s patient is not an easy task, but Kajol makes it look so easy.

• Among the supporting actors, the notable are Divya Dutta and Sumeet Raghavan. Karan Khanna, Isha Sharwani, Sachin Khedekar, Aditya Rajput and Hazel just fill up the cast.

U Me aur Hum will appeal to the younger audience, couples, couples soon to tie the knot and everybody else who is in love. The film has its share of drawbacks and mistakes but those can be forgiven ‘coz its Ajay’s first movie as a director. The movie will definitely force you and your better half to become HUM and make your relationship much better.

On the whole, U Me aur Hum is a good movie. Rating: