Aaliya Khan (Deepika Padukone) and Abhay Gulati (Imran Khan) have watched the movie ‘Mr. India’ 10 times eksaath since they were four-year-old kids. Growing up on a staple nutrition of Bollywood movies, their relation matures to love from being friends though Aaliya would never spare a single chance to make a laughing-stock of Gulati’s filmy dialogues. Nearly when things are fine and Abhay doesn’t know what to do in life, the enterprising actress in Aaliya clashes with the undirected mind of a mad-in-love Abhay.
‘Break Ke Baad’ moves to Australia now where Aaliya is pursuing her dreams and shares her apartment with Nadia (Shahana Goswami) and Cyrus (Yudhishtr Urs). Hanging by thread, a convinced Romeo - Gulati, lands up in Australia too for reasons that add finishing touches to their ‘little break’. That’s ‘Break Ke Baad’ for you – a remake of ‘I Hate Luv Stories’ in some sense.
Don’t go by the rolling credits. They are tempting and equally deceiving. Director Danish Aslam is a firm believer in taking risks and so he did with ‘Break Ke Baad’ and propagated the gravity of being a risk-taker in the movie. The movie is one of the cases where the risk backfires on you for being a dumbass of supreme quality. Not only the screenplay by the director and Renuka Kunzru is painfully messed up everywhere, all the characters in the movie have been totally wasted without any discrimination. The statement applies more to Sharmila Tagore and Shahana Goswami, the latter being the only saving grace in the film.
It doesn’t end there. Even a no-story movie works if there is continuity in the ‘story’ and the packaging is done well. Visual Appeal carries a lot of responsibilities on its fragile shoulders. The junta expects to see a dishy Deepika and the flipside of being a lesser eye candy could be the disappointment i brought along from the theatre. Should i even discuss cinematography and music of the movie?
Deepika’s acting score peaked with ‘Karthik Calling Karthik’ from where the score has shown no sense of direction. After ‘Break Ke Baad’, i would say that her repeated vibrant act is taking her nowhere as an actress. Imran, despite being a sincere actor, has not matured much since ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’. The idea of dealing with breakup in a funny way is actually a good one but not the ‘Break Ke Baad’ way.
Could you guys take a break and not make any movies till you learn the art of it? Look at what a piece of work ‘The Social Network’ is! Though i have doubts, but i hope you will emerge wiser break ke baad.