This
is Ayan Mukherjee’s second directorial flick after “Wake Up Sid” which
portrayed a youth undauntedly living,rather cashing in, on his parents
money.This time too he has not come up
with an uncommon story of showcasing youths’ dilemma in life.
Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani unfurls a story of four youths
whose interest is not common in life.Bunny is a backbencher having a clear
vision of what he wants out of his life-he wants to fathom the world and its
beauties,be it edible or enjoyable, by exploring,soaring,falling and
discovering.Abhi enjoys betting in cricket and ‘Spirit’.Having not yet decided
goal in life,he dreams of running a bar.Aditi is a tom boy who loves to chill
out with friends.Naina is a typical high grader confined to the limits set by
her mother.She is depicted as a glassy-geek immersed in her medical books.The
film starts with a verve-filled song of Ghaghra where Madhuri Dixit plays a
cameo role.Soon after,Bunny,Abhi and Aditi plan a trekking trip to Manali and incidently
Naina too joins them.Albeit, Naina is odd one out among this group of four as
she was not on good terms with the rest of three during her school days, she
tries to enjoy the shades of this trip which proves a self realizing trip to
Naina since she discovers that she was missing the charm of life and eventually
falls for Bunny.But on the other hand, Bunny
never gives a damn to this four letter word which gets one to have the
same dal chawal for rest of the life and advocates the pros of
flirting.Naina tries to convince Bunny with dialogues like 'Jo maza Mumbai me Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge dekhne me hai wo maza Opera me nahi,jo feeling India me family ke sath rahne ka hai wo akele New York me rahne me nahi'.But neither could this prophecy nor the spark of Naina’s love turn into fire and Bunny leaves
for the USA to chase his dream.Eight years pass by and Aditi decides to
marry,despite loving Abhi, a boor-like engineer.Bunny is busy in shooting,as a
cameraman, in different parts of the world and is going to get a big assignment
of hosting for a channel in France.Meanwhile he gets an invitation to attend
Aditi’s marriage at Udaipur
where he reunites with Naina,the doctor;Abhi,the loser……Naina’s love gets
re-ignited and this time Bunny could not save himself from its heat!
There are several jhols in the
storyline:Naina’s mother is shown saying ”Agar ladkiyan jyada masti karti
hai to pregnant ho jati hai” but Naina takes the same path sans
hesitation,first half shows Naina wearing specs but there is no explanation of
her not doing so in the second half,the two female characters are shown as the
girls of the next generation but they don’t have courage to express their
feelings to the two boys,what a contradiction…etc.
Ranbir Kapoor has done justice to the parts where he
had to shake legs,Deepika Padukone looks very attractive as usual,Kalki is also
good.Songs are the few good things of this movie like its locations.Rekha
Bhardwaj has done her part to save the Ghaghra and Vishal Dadlani is
good in Balam Pichkari alike is Benny Dayal in Batmeez dil.This is David Dhawan-Govinda-type movie which can
be vouched for its songs and where you should leave your mind at your home!
