Aisha

Medium : Hindi
Starring : Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Cyrus Sahukar, Ira Dubey, Amrita Puri, Arunoday Singh
Director : Rajshree Ojha
Music : Amit Trivedi

In the last decade, a new culture of movie making has happened in bollywood. They have been making some projects especially for high class multiplex audiences and most of them gave profit to the distributors. Some of the examples of such type movies are 'Life In Metro', 'Mrs and Mr Iyer', 'Hyderabad Blues', 'Page 3', 'Jhankaar Beats', 'Iqbal', 'Bheja Fry', 'Being Cyrus' etc. Director Rajshree Ojha's movie 'Alisha', produced by Anil Kapoor and PVR Pictures also belongs to the particular category. It has got Abhay Deol ('Dev D', 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!' fame) and Sonam Kapoor ('Saawaria', 'Delhi 6', 'I Hate Love Storys' fame ) in lead roles.

Aisha (Sonam Kapoor) is an upper class girl living in Delhi, who takes others problems into her own hands. After finding a partner for her aunt, she wants to help her friend Shifali (Amrita Puri), to find a perfect match. Arjun (Abhay Deol) is Aisha's childhood friend. He always criticize her behaviors by telling that she should mind her own business. Though she loves him, she is not willing to accept it in public. Aisha is too possessive of Arjun, she doesn't want him to be in the company of any other girls. Aisha tried to get Shifali engaged to a business man (Cyrus Sahukar), but failed in the end. Whether Aisha is able to get a match for Shifani and how she expresses her love for Arjun, is told in the later areas of 'Aisha'.

Sonam Kapoor who comes from the experienced actor Anil Kapoor's family, has done an excellent job in the title role. Here 'rebel and jealous' like expressions, especially in front of Abhay Deol is notable. Abhay, nephew of veteran actor Dharmendra, has given a matured performance here. The chemistry between these two characters have been natural and the tic-tac dialogues between them are also executed well. All the other artists have given a good support for the project. Cinematographer Diego Rodriguez had done his job without any gimmicks. Songs and bg score by Amit Trivedi goes with the mood. Director Rajshree Ojha, with the help of writer Devika Bhagat had presented the movie in the way it goes, but you won't get bored.


'Aisha' is not a speedy entertainer. This slow paced romantic subject has got some realistic situations, reflecting the north indian culture to a certain extend.


Rating : 7 / 10

I Hate Luv Storys

Medium : Hindi
Starring : Imraan Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sameer Dattani
Director : Punit Malhotra
Music : Vishal - Sekhar, Salim - Sulaiman (bg score)

After the debut hit, 'Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Naa', Imraan Khan (bollywood star Amir Khan's nephew), didn't have any other notable projects in his credit. His last movies like 'Kidnap' and 'Luck' have not done well. His new movie 'I Hate Luv Storys' has got Sonam Kapoor (d/o Anil Kapoor, 'Saawariya', 'Delhi-6' fame) as the heroine. After 'Kaal', 'Dostana', 'Wake Up Sid' and 'Kurbaan', hit maker of love stories, director Karan Johar once again wears the suits of a producer. Mega banner UTV is the co-producer. This time, the writer-director here is a new comer named Punit Malhotra.

Jai (Imran Khan) is working as an assistant to the super hit director of love stories, Veer Kapoor (Sameer Soni). As expected, the hero doesn't like the hindi movie love stories as all of them are having similar cliche situations. He meets Simran (Sonam Kapoor) at a theater while watching a movie, he argued with her as she is a great fan of love subjects. Simran is working as the art director for Veer's new project. Jai is shifted to her department as an assistant. Simran is being engaged to Raj (Sameer Dattani, 'Monalisa'(k), 'Corporate'(h) and 'Kutty'(t) fame), an investment banker. She is irritated due to Jai's attitude and one stage there happens an exchange of words between the two. As in every love stories, her hatred is transformed into love with the hero later. When the shooting of the new movie comes to an end, both of them are loving each other, though the hero refused to accept it. How he wins the love is what told in the climax of 'I Hate Luv Storys'.

In the very first moment when both the characters are introduced, we are able to know what will be happening between them in the later portions. The theme used here (excluding the disagreement in love matters), has got the flavour of tamil movie 'Vaseegara' (by Vijay and Sneha). That movie justified the change in attitude of the heroine character by showing the lovable character of the hero, but here we can't witness such a thing. The phone call episode between the hero and mother might be adapted from 'Dil Chahtha Hai', but it is not done in the best way. The second half is lagging here and there. Though the hero is shown as an enemy of love stories, here also the climax is filled with the same situations as every love subjects have.

Imraan Khan and Sonam Kapoor did well in the lead roles. Cinematography by Ayananka Bose ('Dostana', 'Kites' fame) is colorful. Songs by Vishal - Sekhar will goes with the mood, bg score by Salim - Sulaiman is good. New comer Punit Malhotra has created attention by selecting such a theme and title for his debut movie.

The boldness of the producer Karan Johar to criticize his own movies and make a spoof on the romantic situations from them, should be appreciated.


The title 'I Hate Luv Storys' is different; but it cannot be categorized as an unusual bollywood movie, as the love formula used here ends up in an expected way only (it felt like they are justifying the love stories done by them in the past).


Rating : 6.5 / 10