Cast :- Imran Khan,Deepika Padukone, Sharmila Tagore
Director :- Danish Aslam
Rating : - ***
Rating : - ***
Love blossoms in sundry colours in Bollywood these days. There are noisy, boisterous, zany, crazy, conventional, unconventional romantic soirees rushing down the assembly line every week. If Break ke Baad manages to hold your attention, despite its plodding middle, it's only because it speaks in a different tone altogether. Danish Aslam's debut film may be a love story, but there is an underplay, a restraint and a sense of non-drama (the opposite of dramebaaz) that speaks directly to you. Just as the characters look as if they have been picked up from your circle of friends: they speak real stuff, funny stuff, corny stuff and have real-life confusions about nothing at all.
Consider this. Aaliya is actually a crazy girl who seems to be hell bent on messing up a good thing, for no reason at all. She has the best boyfriend in the world -- the ever-understanding, sensitive and so very dependable Gulati. Yet, you can understand why she wants to fly off into unknown territory, chasing unnecessary dreams, yearning for useless adventure and talking on an on about spurious spaces. As for Gulati, he's typical too with his laid back acceptance of what life has to offer, even if it means slogging as a glorified clerk in his dad's office while all he wants to do is cook and serve. There's something so endearing about his desire to be the `manjha' (string) to Aaliya's soaring kite stance. And the fact that Imran pitches his performance at a very very downplayed level makes Gulati's non-demanding, dependable guy act even more effective. As for Deepika, well her Aaliya is relatively effortless too, despite the fact that it's a mercurial, illogical, irrational ekdum flighty character. Her climactic act seems to be the best performance in her entire career: completely spontaneous, crazy and cute.
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