U,Me Aur Hum disappoints;go for 50 First

Ashwini Kumar

Ajay Devgan has done great service to himself and his profession by giving new dimensions to the action genre in Hindi cinema. His anger spewing, red eyed role in his debut film Phool Aur Kaante won him the Filmfare Award. Even comedy worked with the film Ishq being a super-hit. His stellar performances in The Legend of Bhagat Singh and Gangajal won him critical acclaim. All was going great on the professional front until he tried his hand at film-making and failed miserably.

After producing and starring in the year 2000's flop flick Raju Chacha, Ajay once again tries his hand in film-making with wifey dear Kajol in U, Me Aur Hum. The film didn't move me a bit, am not sure if U should watch it and Hum should rather watch the Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore starrer 'Fifty First Dates'. For U, Me Aur Hum is the Bollywood version of the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster.

U, Me Aur Hum is a story of love found and lost and found again! Ajay is a happy-go-lucky guy who is happy drinking like a fish and tries his luck on many nubile, coquettish girls until he bumps into Piya (Kajol) and falls in love. The boy meets girl routine. A mandatory chase by our hero later, Kajol's heart also begins beating for Ajay. Song-and-dance sequences follow about a Saiyan being like a saheli. Or was that Bareily?

And then when you think its over, Piya starts acting weirdly. One fine morning she forgets the saheli or Bareily like saiyan. As Ajay discovers to his shock, Kajol has Alzheimer's and tends to forget stuff. That includes Ajay. Again and again.

But Ajay, being the die hard romantic that he is, continues the love trip. Its all about the trip and how it ends on what shores.

The first half of the film is written loosely and makes you sway like you were in the same ship that is shown in it and that lead many to believe U, Me, Aur Hum to be a Titanic remake (no its Fifty First Dates!). Second half does offer a range of emotions and sequences that keep you inside the cinema hall till the gripping climax.

Like in Raju Chacha, the use of graphics and special effects is quite cool and the best that money can buy. Kajol is a darling as ever and her fans would love her 'comeback.' But she is clearly not the Kajol of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge or even the recent Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. Ashley Lobo and Ganesh Acharya are a lethal combo of choreographers that Ajay has banked upon to create some memorable sequences.

But dialogues leave much to be desired. It just adds to the feeble script with use of multiple abusive words, sickening adult jokes that would take the family audience away from a film that was being touted as a family oriented one. Clinking of wine glasses by Ajay after almost every two scenes is also a bit nauseating. Atleast for the teetotalers.

All in all Ajay's directorial venture is just an average attempt at creating…well what exactly was he aiming at, I wonder. Two and a half stars for U, Me, Aur Hum.