Watch ‘Iron Man 3’ or the classic ‘Abhimaan’ at home instead.īox Office: Going by the opening the film has taken (40% which is fantastic for a film without stars) and theatres filled with lovestruck couples, the film should be a decent success. But if you don’t fulfill any of those requirements, then stay away. If you liked the music, if you have a lot of time and money to spare, if you are out on a date then this film is for you.
Also, the chemistry between her and Aditya isn’t as flawless as it’s meant to be.Ĭonclusion: Aashiqui 2 is neither a sequel nor a full blown love story. She’d get better with age and experience.
Shraddha Kapoor is adorable, charming and yet somehow isn’t a patch on the Kajols and Kareenas. He has improved a lot and should carry on doing whatever he’s been doing to carry on that journey. The effort is visible in his performance and that’s not a compliment. ARK plays the brooding, Devdas’ish RJ with a lot of restrained anger. Thankfully enough, both Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur have gotten a lot better from their previous outings in front of the camera and that’s not to say they are great in this film. Performances: For a film which is centered around just two people madly in love, you expect the actors playing the parts to do justice to their roles. A little more effort here would have have been appreciated. The background score on the other hand, doesn’t match up the songs even though they are a continuation of the musical theme. The legacy of the soundtrack, however, remains to be seen.
Songs like ‘Tum Hi Ho,’ ‘Sun Raha Hai Na Tu’ and ‘Chahun Main’ are already scorching music charts all over the country. I would say, the music redeems the film somewhat. Music and Background Score: When you hear the songs of ‘Aashiqui’ still being played 23 years after its release, you know the makers had a task on their hands while creating the music for this one. Something which caught my eye was that it did not look or feel like a low budget film even though it was one! Special marks for the production design. The editing is off the mark and you feel as if the film stretches out for a bit too long towards the end. They manage to clone the exuberant atmosphere of concerts pretty well. The concert scenes are straight out of Rock On and Rockstar.
The cinematography is adequately appropriate for the tone of this film. Another major drawback of the film is in the drivel they passed out as dialogues. It was built up as an intense romantic saga and from where I come, intense romantic sagas need to be fluid and have uniformity inspite of the upheavals that take place in regards to the story. That is a disappointment considering the premise had some potential.ĭirection: Mohit Suri returns to direction after a decent gap, by his standards, and disappoints. All is certainly not well because it does not end well. But Alas, inspite of having a pretty dramatic storyline (partly inspired by Abhimaan and partly inspired by Rockstar) things fall flat towards the end. Things get muddled up when the alpha male ego crops up in RJ. He decides to train Aarohi and they eventually end up falling for each other. It is centered around a down in the dumps Rockstar called Rahul Jaykar or RJ (played by Aditya Roy Kapur) lying about in a bar in Goa wasting his talent and career, when he chances upon the bar singer Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor). Story: The film deals with the fickle fallacy of fame. The music and the clever marketing campaign has built up the hype, but let’s see analyse if the film is worth all the hype. The Bhatt’s probably decided that it was time to milk the audience of some more of their money and started this franchise instead. Well, this film isn’t one, in the truest sense of the word. It wasn’t a classic and didn’t obviously warrant a sequel. Aashiqui back in 1990 managed to become a huge hit on the strength of it’s music alone.