I’ve been hearing of Milenge Milenge ever since I joined in Media 3years ago. The film cropped up every time anyone spoke of Kareena Kapoor-Shahid Kapoor starrers. A take off on the Hollywood movie Serendipity (2001), Milenge Milenge is cheesy to say the least.
The story is simple; Shahid and Kareena meet on a trip to Bangkok after Shahid gets hold of her diary. He does everything right to impress her until she realises he has read her diary and is not what he makes himself out to be. She walks out on him and their love, leaving behind two clues and for destiny to take over. Because there’s a gap of five years between the start of the movie to its release, it does look dated.
Shahid and Kareena’s costumes are something you wouldn’t catch either of these stylish actors wearing today even on a bad day. Writer Shiraz Ahmed manages to make a hash of a ready screenplay pushing the envelope of being cheesy and corny in the same breath. He fails miserably wherever he has tried to change situations to make them fit into an Indian scenario. He isn’t the only villain of this show though. Enter director Satish Kaushik. He fails to hold you with his old school melodrama and comedy.
The young and contemporary touches the film required are totally absent. And you can easily see that Shahid had still not come into his own as an actor when he shot for the film. He even goes over the top in a few of the scenes — like the one where he has to play a cool college dude.
Kareena however is clearly the best thing about the movie. She is superb throughout but doesn’t manage to carry the film on her own. Apart from Himesh Reshimmya’s rendition of Kuch toh baki hai, no other song stays with you. Overall, the film is predictable and it would be safe to say this movie wouldn’t have worked even if it had released much earlier as planned.
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