Unfortunately a see-through love story. Review on Tere Naam

The tongue-twister from the movie - The first time I heard it , I thought it's Aa..ra..ra..ra , later I realised it's Nirjhara.(Consult The Oxford Sanskrit to Filmy Hindi dictionary for the exact meaning).

The 'sarif' girl - She behaves as if she grew in one day flat and knows nothing about the 'zalkim duniya' jo doo pyar karne walo ko kabhi milne nahi dete hai .She does all the things a nice girl is suposed to do - (1) Puja (2) Aarrti with 'both' eyes closed (3) Bhajaan (4) Watering the tulsi plant (5) Plucking the flower for garland (6) distrubuting prasaad with her head neatly covered.

The College 'dada' - He does a 'radhe-shyam ka naam pura mitti mein mila dena'.Though he's in his late 30s lekin koi kaam-dhandha toh hai nahi . Usually he's buzy fighting,ragging,smoking and doing buddy-buddy battein with his sidekicks . But he's a nice guy albeit of a different kind .

The Aberration - (1) 'main vidya ki kasam kha ker kehte hoon , I don't love you' - Nirjhara to Sallu. 'vidya ki kasaam!!!'. ladki ki kasam khate hai !! hai kya ?? Screamed the guy sitting 'on my seat'.

(2) Sallu gets into a fight with his friend and kicks the hell out.Later in the beer-bar he repents- 'I love you yaar' .'Love you yaar!!!' Ladke ko bool raha hai , hai kya ??

The Story -

(1) College dada falls in love with a first year BA-pass course student who is the 'putri' of 'mandir ke mahanth' and is already engaged to a guy.

(2)Sallu thinks of the girl (shirt uttar ke) with the peacock feather.

(3)Sallu proposes her (shirt daal ke) & she blurs something which is wrongly construed by sallu.

(4)Sallu gifts her a 'payal' in the local train (shirt daal ke),Nirjhara refuses.

(5) Sallu gets into a fight with his friend(Shirt uttar ke) and later repents (leather jacket daal ke ).

(6) sallu helps Nirjhara's sister,who surely is a dimwit as she approaches a bank for loan without having anything to offer as a guarantee and later ends up in a brothel thinking that she will be offered loan at 0% interest rate.

(7) Sallu kidnaps Nirjhara (sunglasses daal ke). Screams,cries and later mood thik hone per ,sings.

(8) kuch purane dusman make good use of Sallu's head in the absence of a hammer.sallu loses his mental balance(which implies that he's mentally sound prior to this incident).

(9)Salu is in mental asylum .Girl refuses to marry the other guy as she has already given her 'maan' to sallu ans since 'maan' is an integral part of 'taan' she's Sallu's from 'Taan-Maan'.

(10)In the meantime salu is treated upon by (Shhhh,secret hai , khud dekh lena) and he's regaining his mental balance once again.

(11) Nirjhara is getting married.Now since there's a 'dil ka rista' between both the love-birds, sallu flees the asylum(handcuffs aur shirt daal ke).

(12) He's late and breaks into '25 minutes too late'.

(13) sallu is back to where he surely belongs to i.e mental asylum.

Well the baseline of the movie said it all . One look at it and you I knew . 'ees movie ke lakshan thik nahi dikh rahe hain , koi marne wala hai'.

Sat through the first half thinking that the u-turn will come only after the intermission but the second half was simply pathetic.Barring the climax,if one missed the whole half,he virtually missed nothing at all.

Scenes were forced in the movie to make viewers sympathetic towards the protagonist which I think is an outdated tactic.

Some said that SalmanKhan has acted brilliantly in the movie .He was fine in the first half and in the second half there wasn't anything for him to do . Bhumika Chawala is good .

Cinematogrtaphy,editing,Choreography et.all are of average standard.

• Himesh reshamiya is quite capable of giving hummable tunes .The music is good,especially the title track.

Direction- let Satish Kaushik make an original movie first then we will decide.

It's a nothing movie . If you still want to see it ,well Ok,dekh lo .