I really wonder, how two directors can manage to mess up a relatively good idea as mcuh as happened here. The technical aspects of this film are far from being satisfying. The editing is rather sloppy, the acting at best amateurish and the songs are far from being captivating. After the clever cinematography of the titles, you expect something rewarding, but you are disappointed.
Sam (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and Cheena (Sonal Chauhan) are on a vacation on the Fiji Islands. Sam probably wonø't be able to make it - he is a busy hipster. But he loves Cheena and manages to be there with her. ("Without you there is no us, as she puts it - and that is a self-evident truth. Sam loses his phone and needs to buy a new one. It is second-hand, but he likes it, so he buys it. During the night a call from an unknown number arrives. It is a woman - it seems she is strangled. Sam starts to change personality and tries to kill his girlfriend. They suspect that there is something wrong with the phone. They trace the previous owner in a Dan Brown-esque fashion and in the end we get some sort of explanation. It involves a porn-model who fell in love with a programmer, an app to contact spirits and the God Particle. Who can want more?
Logic and continuity are in this film very flexible, yes, even athletic as they perform giant leaps. The actors are not given much to perform on, as the dialogue is more than clumsy. (Who will believe that a Catholic priest talks about "Life, Death and Rebirth"? How would you react, if a smashed phone would be returned to you completely intact? And so on.)
It seems, however, that Bollywood now also can accept the physical aspects of love. We see some French kissing, but Sonal Chauhan stills goes with a bathing suit in the bath tub. She goes there in the first place only to put her lingerie on display.
So - the premise was interesting, but the execution fell to the ground like flinders of a broken I-Phone.
4/10
Sam (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and Cheena (Sonal Chauhan) are on a vacation on the Fiji Islands. Sam probably wonø't be able to make it - he is a busy hipster. But he loves Cheena and manages to be there with her. ("Without you there is no us, as she puts it - and that is a self-evident truth. Sam loses his phone and needs to buy a new one. It is second-hand, but he likes it, so he buys it. During the night a call from an unknown number arrives. It is a woman - it seems she is strangled. Sam starts to change personality and tries to kill his girlfriend. They suspect that there is something wrong with the phone. They trace the previous owner in a Dan Brown-esque fashion and in the end we get some sort of explanation. It involves a porn-model who fell in love with a programmer, an app to contact spirits and the God Particle. Who can want more?
Logic and continuity are in this film very flexible, yes, even athletic as they perform giant leaps. The actors are not given much to perform on, as the dialogue is more than clumsy. (Who will believe that a Catholic priest talks about "Life, Death and Rebirth"? How would you react, if a smashed phone would be returned to you completely intact? And so on.)
It seems, however, that Bollywood now also can accept the physical aspects of love. We see some French kissing, but Sonal Chauhan stills goes with a bathing suit in the bath tub. She goes there in the first place only to put her lingerie on display.
So - the premise was interesting, but the execution fell to the ground like flinders of a broken I-Phone.
4/10
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