Murli After reading some of the glowing reviews from some of the users and the high rating I thought I couldn't go wrong by slotting the DVD in my player and sitting back and enjoying the evening away.The movie starts slowly and rather tediously...and I was on the verge of switching off the movie...The development of the group is brief but good though I wish they had employed the rest of the group more effectively and given them a few more moments rather than being background filler and fodder for the two main characters, both of who are neither interesting nor very engaging. Aditi is loud, annoying all over the place while Jai is sickeningly oversweet...the all round "nice" guy that the director and script writers try to force onto the audience. As a group it was fun to watch them and it would have been nice to see them have some more comic misadventures.The story is nothing new but at least it looked interesting...the two main characters are so close that even a blind man could guess they would end up together but the script takes them on a round trip to nowhere and back. It was fun to watch Jai and his new girlfriend and Aditi's increasing anxiety and jealously. If this had been handled better there would have been more jealousy/comedy moments written but then this is bollywood...The story definitely takes a nose dive after the interval with all the usual clichés being reused...The two find that shockingly they are in love with one another but neither wants to admit it...Aditi's boyfriend turns out to be a villain (gasp, I didn't see that coming!!), Jai's girlfriend is a little nuts (what a surprise there). Even the climax is a cliché where the two star crossed lovers are going to be separated and the hero has to do something herculean and heroic to save the day. The scenes at the airport are blindingly stupid...given what's been happening lately there is no way Jai would have gotten through the x-ray machine...not with ten guys holding machine guns in their hands... The three codes of a rathore is stupid and annoying. I found myself forwarding most of the second half as the movie had effectively ended for me.Acting wise Genelia aka Aditi is as bad as they come. I was surprised and shocked to discover that she is a bit of an acting veteran given her tender age. And she still sucks...She had no scope and brought nothing likable for the character of Aditi...She was loud and annoying. Imran Khan is average and showed nothing different than all the other new comers. This movie was just made for him to make his big entrance and look good. Well, he wasn't very impressive and the sad thing is that it won't matter because of whose nephew he is and his connections. The rest of group acted better than the main two. The main song Pappu can't dance is annoying and horrible and that's going to keep me up for a night or two...So who should watch this? If you're used to a big group of friends who are always together, share laughter and tears together then this is the movie for you. If you really don't care about anything and want to be distracted then this is the movie for you. If you've ever had a crush on someone in the group and had to hide it from that person then this is the movie for you (to a certain extent). The script could have been handled much better to deliver a standout end result and make this a cult movie on friendship like Breakfast Club did. But it didn't happen and that in itself is a big letdown...

reubenthegreat88 I was expecting a movie like Kal Ho Na Ho. One I would love instantly.I was disappointed.It started off weird. The airport scene was indeed very boring and overused. The friends very robot-like.And then we FINALLY see him and her. The stars. The one we know will win all the best debut awards this year. Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza.Imran Khan surprised me. I was expecting another mediocre, here in the industry because of relations but he is indeed good. Genelia is decent but needs to work on her accent. She also looks very similar to Sonai Kulkarni, who is a much better actress than she.The story was average. It had its moments. There were times when you were laughing very hard and times when you wanted to go hide under the seat because of the syrupy sweet, totally unrealistic lives and dialogs and story.It tried to teach parents some things as well. The situation with Imran's girlfriend's parents was a very good example and a bit believable as well. I hope parents learn from it.Had I not heard so much about it, I would not have been so disappointed. It was that I was expecting so much, so, so much, that I was so sorely disappointed. It could have done so much better. There were times when it could have shined. But it failed.I think that it is watchable, but only if you have no expectations.A cute romantic comedy, masala movie.6/10.

dnavin-2 So much has already been written here about this film, in fact, there's nothing new to add for me, yet I'm compelled to write about it. This in itself proves what kind of film this is. You just need to talk about this film...with everyone.What's to like? The music, the direction, the freshness of the characters, the cinematography, the fact that there are no aging Khans & the fact that most of the script is repeated by us while amongst our friends which makes it easy to relate with the characters.What's not to like? Nothing...What could have been better? The acting, but then let's not forget that most of the actors in it as new comers. So it's excusable.If you haven't yet watched the movie stop reading this and get going.

True_sherwindsa A gentle, unpretentious and well-written romantic comedy which presents a fresh and different perspective on a very old question: can a girl and a boy be the best of friends without the relationship ever tipping over into romance territory? Jaane Tu does'nt seem to think so and to be honest the movie does not even play fair by making at least one title character's choice for a better half a totally unlikable cad to clear the stage for the hero and heroine to get together again.Abbas Tyrewala knows the milieu in which the story transpires very well and it shows in his screenplay and dialogues. There are some very funny scenes such as the scene where the heroine's parents meet the hero with a marriage proposal(he thinks its a job interview). Some nice quirky touches such as the three rites of passage that every Rathore must fulfill in order to qualify as a man or the hero's current squeeze who manages to turn the ordinary and the mundane into something magical add spice to the proceedings. The quirky touches are sometimes underlined by a dose of hard reality such as the unhappy home where the girl comes from as a result of which she retreats into a world of fantasy and imagination.Some of the quirky touches and subplots (such as the strained relationship between Genelia and her brother further symbolized in her liking for cats and his liking for rats!) are simply there as adornments and bear no functional relationship to the story whatsoever. Fortunately they don't look out of place and actually help the viewing experience go down well.Acting across the board is very good and both Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza are just about adequate. No one outshines the other. Paresh Rawal is underused as a police inspector because his comic potential (so evident in Hera Pheri and even Awara Pagal Dewana) is not at all exploited by the director. Naaseruddin Shah gets to have a bit of fun as a ghost-on-the-wall(inspired by Hum Paanch) and his interactions with Rathna Pathak Shah (his wife in real life) are bound to produce giggles if not outright guffaws from the audience. Arbaaz and Sohail Khan deserve special mention for their comedic act as the hero's long-lost uncles. Jayant Kripalani and Anuradha Patel as Aditi's parents make no special impact whatsoever.Overall, the movie does not do anything daring or different with the question it deals with but at least it respects its audiences intelligence and does not force-feed ridiculous situations and characters down its throats. In the barren cinematic wasteland that has been the summer of 2008, something this well-written and directed that is a cut above the ordinary is always welcome.