Aaja Nachle Movie Review

Home >> Articles >> Movie Reviews >> Article

Article Updated 02 December, 2007 10:07:45 PM IST

Create Your Hotlist

Aaja Nachle Movie Review

Continued: Next Page >>

Credits
Producer/s:	Aditya Chopra
Director:	Anil Mehta
Cast:	Madhuri Dixit, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Ranvir Shorey, Irfan Khan, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, Akhilendra Mishra, Jugal Hansraj, Sushmita Mukherjee, Nowaz, Uttara Baokar, Vinod Nagpal, Asha Sachdev
Music:	Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant
Lyrics:	Jaideep Sahni

This is a very crucial film for many people for various reasons. For Yash Raj, as this is their next release after the disastrous Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, for director Anil Mehta as this is his debut film and of course for Madhuri Dixit as this is her first film after marriage and a comeback vehicle of sorts.

Madhuri Dixit (Dia) is based is New York. One fine day she is asked by her dying guru Makarand (Darshan Jariwala) to come back to her hometown, Shamli, to save her alma mater, Ajanta, from being demolished. She comes back home, to the place she once left, after falling in love with a National Geographic photographer. Once back, she and the caretaker of Ajanta, Doctor (Raghubir Yadav), get together to salvage the theatre. With stiff opposition from all quarters, she sets out to put up a theatrical production of international standards. But the condition put forward is that every person in the musical has to be a local inhabitant of Shamli! She has two months to achieve the impossible.

If this film is even remotely watchable it is only for Madhuri Dixit. True she is not what she once she used to be but that killer smile of hers, is still the same! Like her character in the film who tries really hard to save Ajanta, even Madhuri Dixit tries her best to save the film. But not much can be done to save a film with no script and resultantly, extremely sleep inducing!

This film is an ideal example of a promising plot (though not novel!) let down by half-baked development of script and characters. Also ,extreme cinematic liberties are taken. If a film is entertaining, then logical discrepancies may be ignored. It is only when that a film fails to entertain does one get bothered by the illogical things.

1 | 2 Next Page