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'Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche'

By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

Aman (Aftab) is a student of the National Institute of Fashion Technology. A teetotaler, Aman excels in his studies and shuns all bad habits. In brief he is any girl’s dream boy.

Aman’s carefree and smooth life is, however, disturbed by the entry of beautiful Esha (Esha Deol) into NIFT. For Aman, it is love at first sight. He tries every way to get Esha’s attention but to no use. She ignores him totally.

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Aman’s boisterous father (Anupam Kher) steps in as his savior. He holds a Valentines Day party to which he invites all the NIFT students and their parents. In the party opportunist Aman resorts to his song-and-dance ploy to woo Esha in front of her alleged mother Mansi Devi (Jay Bachchan). But in vain. All his amorous advances and covert glances are bluntly rebuffed by Esha.

Unable to comprehend Esha’s complete refusal, a desperate Aman shows up at her home and proposes marriage in front of her mother. It is there that the truth alights on him and our hapless movie viewers.

The movie goes in flashback. Esha’s life is haunted by her tragic past. The truth is she has already been married once to Mansi Devi’s son Dushyant (Sanjay Kapoor). Yes Mansi Devi is her mother-in-law.

To Esha’s misfortune her husband Dushyant was a sadist and a sexual pervert who wanted to capture her nude on his video camera on their suhaag raat. Obviously she refused to comply.

On another occasion Dushyant literally forced her to share bed with his foreigner friend. In her bid to escape Esha threw a burning lamp onto Dushyant. The tent with Dushyant in it caught fire. And thankfully for Esha her brute and kinky husband was left alone to burn in hell. But as it often happens in Bollywood kitsch, the phoenix does rise from the ashes.

Back to the present. It is Esha’s engagement ceremony. And Aman is her groom-to-be. Everyone is in a good mood. To Esha’s and Mansi Devi’s surprise, Dushyant shows up and spoils the evening. Rest of the story revolves around Dushyant attempting to terrorize Esha and Aman coming to her rescue and proving himself a real hero in her eyes.

Being hailed by its producers as ‘a film with a terrorizing twist’ “Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche” is at the core a stereotypical Bollywood flick that is marred by cliches. As such, there is nothing novel about the story and director Vinay Shukla’s sense of cinematic presentation.

As far as the performances go, both Aftab and Esha’s acting is bogged by usual hamming. Esha in particular has a long way to go before she could live upto the credentials of her distinguished lineage. Although she exudes confidence before the camera her demeanor in general gives the impression of arrogance.

On the other hand, Jaya Bachchan delivers a consummate performance and Sanjay Kapoor does leave an impression with his kinky stuff

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