Love happens, if you let it; even if destiny has to step in to lend a hand. But when its about finding that special person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with, should you risk tempting fate with a test of that love or should you just embrace your destiny? Milenge Milenge movie review…
Finally Milenge Milenge is released and its promos point out that this is Shahid and Kareena’s last film together. The film seems dated as it was shot much earlier and as Shahid and Kareena have separated 3 years ago in real life.
Shahid Kapoor is Amit. He is your regular rich guy, who smokes, drinks and flirts with gay abandon. He takes life and affairs of the heart lightly. And by the time he realizes he actually loves Priya, its too late. She’s left him and their love to the vagaries of fate.
Kareena Kapoor is Priya. She’s a die hard romantic, who believes that destiny and only destiny will lead her to her true love. She meets Amit and falls in love thinking its destiny. But then she realizes otherwise and is heart broken. She turns her back on love. Will she pay the price for turning her back on destiny?
So we have the girlish Kareena and boyish looking Shahid in this love story which is about Immy (Shahid) and Priya (Kareena) who believes in love. All she wants to do in life is find her Prince Charming and live happily ever after. When a tarot card reader (Kirron Kher) tells her that she will find him on a specific day, wearing specific clothes, Priya is over the moon.
She flies off to attend a Youth festival in Bangkok. Here she meets Amit (Shahid Kapoor) on that specific day, wearing specific clothes. The attraction is instant. And she is convinced that he is the guy of her life.
But just as the festival comes to an end, so does her love story. Amit tries to woo her back by telling her that they are destined to be together. Priya retorts that if it is indeed destiny, then they will find each other again, even if all they know of the other is the name!
Years go by and both of them move on in life. Both are engaged to get married, but neither is happy. Priya has this horrible nagging feeling that Amit was indeed her one true love. Amit too feels the same about her.
Will destiny play Cupid again and conspire to bring them back together? Or will destiny take her revenge for being thwarted?
Shahid and Kareena come up with convincing performances as lovers and their on-screen chemistry is the only nice thing about this film. Kirron Kher, Delnaaz Paul as Kareena’s best friend and Sarfaraz Khan as Shahid’s do make an impression. But Satish Shah, Himani Shivpuri and Aarti Chhabria have very little to do in this melodrama.
Satish Kaushik’s direction is commendable, Himesh Reshammiya’s musical score is impressive and the admirable Cinematography by S Sriram captures the beautiful locales of Bangkok and the lovely Thailand.
Milenge Milenge lacks the charm of the last weeks release ‘I Hate Luv Storys’. It begins like one of those countless love stories, with songs and romantic moments, and what binds the film together is the chemistry between the lead pair and quite a few delightful moments.
Cast of Milenge Milenge:
Kareena Kapoor – Priya
Shahid Kapoor – Amit
Satish Shah – Amit’s Dad
Delnaaz Paul – Honey
Kiron Kher – Sunita Rao
Aarti Chhabria
Himani Shivpuri
Satish Kaushik
Sarfaraz Khan
Panini Rajkumar
Credits & Crew of Milenge Milenge:
Banner – S.K. Films Enterprises
Produced by Boney Kapoor
Directed by Satish Kaushik
Music – Himesh Reshammiya
Written by: Shiraz Ahmed
Lyricist – Sameer
Screenplay & Dialogue – Shiraz Ahmed
Background Music – Sanjoy Chowdhary
Cinematography – S Sriram
Choreography – Ahmed Khan
Art – Jayant Deshmukh
Editor – Sanjay Verma
Singers – Alka Yagnik, Himesh Reshammiya, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Sonu Nigam,
Jayesh Gandhi, Suzanne D’Mello, Shreya Ghoshal, Vineet Singh
Milenge Milenge, movie review