One fine day, you wake up, and are hit by this brilliant wave to launch the apple of your eye in the movies. Doting daddy (Romesh Sharma) that you are, you go through all the trouble of writing, directing and producing it.
But the story doesn't have anything new to offer. It is about a boy (Karan Sharma as Jai) and girl (Annabelle Wallace as Sophie) who fall in love and face parental opposition.
Now that is something even the filmmaker knows the audience has been subjected to relentlessly. So, why? Because he has credibility on his side. After all, he has produced the hit
Hum, and directed films like
Aetbaar and the popular television serial,
Ajnabee.
So what does daddy dear do now? He decides to make the girl English. An Indo-Brit romance sounds cool now, doesn't it? He makes them study abroad. And not just anywhere, but in the majestic city of Stockholm, Sweden. Next, he ensures the script has both his lead protagonists originally hailing from the country of sun, sand and beaches -- Mauritius. Cinematographer Binod Pradhan does full justice to the beauty of both countries.
Nice! But something is still missing.
Stars? Stars!
Enter Plan B, which is the Big B himself. Amitabh Bachchan as Jai's pampering 'Pa' and Revathy as his traditionalist Mom complete the family portrait. And, just in case things go wrong between the boy and his English lass, which they invariably will, there is further backup in the form of a beautiful doctor with a golden heart (Bhumika Chawla).
Who's the bad guy? Sophie's bull-faced father, Norman Besson (Malcolm Doddard). The man flaunts his surname in true 'Rajgad ke Thakur' ishtyle and suffers from the 'English are masters, Indians are slaves' mentality.
In trying to set up a lavish debut for his son, Sharma forgets that the dressing alone does not make a dish. So, while embellishments
get the thumbs up, the original fabric is lacklustre.