Dec 27, 2007 01:30 AM
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We meet them, we have them, but still we keep looking around. Not for anyone else, but for some signal that would testify that this is the one for me. For someone who would come and assure that this is the right thing for you to do and everything else will be taken care of.
Torn between head and heart we keep on building confusions for our own selves. One fight with the one we love ruins our being for weeks together, but we fight. One misunderstanding that could’ve been avoided mushrooms tears, but we don’t want to avoid it. We don’t want to compromise, we don’t want to empathize; we don’t want to understand… we want to live on our terms and conditions.
Pyar ke side effects, is a typical Rahul Bose film starring him and Mallika Shehrawat. The film that can be regarded as a milestone in the acting career of Mallika is about a love affair and its ups and downs. It begins with Trisha (Mallika) proposing to Sidharth/ Sid (Bose) between a conflict about him not paying attention to what she wants to say. It moves on to engagement, break up and getting back together… stretched over a good 3 hours… but too early, in real life, we spend years to cover this much.
The movie is a beautiful portrayal of love in 21st century.
Trisha is a runaway bride. She escaped her wedding function because she wasn’t sure if this was what she wanted. All of 22 years, the Delhi girl wanted more form life and went in search for it. Living in Mumbai, working with a good pay, living alone she achieves all she ever wanted. To add it all, she has a good looking, fun loving and well-settled boyfriend. Despite her parent’s disapproval of the affair, Trisha and Sid are sure to fight all odds and make it to be together for life.
A relationship can fight oppositions from the world, but not the one that it faces from within. Sid, scared of commitments realizes that he is not sure if this was what he wanted. He wants her but not the marriage while she wants him and marriage both.
A parallel plot runs with the story of Sid’s sister, Shalini (Taraana Raja) and her husband Kapil (Aamir Bashir). Despite all odds, the couple has a sweet and loving life where the wife burns any edible stuff and the husband eats it quietly… quietly because if he praises it, he’s in trouble for lying and if he says its bad, he is in trouble for speaking the truth! (And I love this part! :P )
Marriage after all isn’t that bad a deal, as this couple depicts. When Shalini gives birth to her baby girl and Sid (the mamu) refuses to hold her dreading he wouldn’t be able to… Kapil tells him…. “You just have to hold her once… and then you wont feel scared anymore… I don’t feel scared now!”
That’s where the movie rises from being average to being good.
Besides all the romantic and emotional part of the flick, there’s comedy to it… and Bose’s is a master at it. Its hard to stop laughing at the scene where right after their engagement, Trisha takes Sid out for some household shopping and wants him to decide what colour chest would suit their off-white wall and what colour curtains would match the chest…
In one line, the movie (if not exactly) is very close to real… and there’s surely something in it for everyone…
