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'Tumko Na Bhool Payenge'

By N K Deoshi
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

After “Biwi No.1” brawny Salman and willowy Sushmita are seen together romancing onscreen one more time in director Pankaj Parashar’s comeback film “Tumko Na Bhool Payenge”. And completing the love triangle is newcomer Diya Mirza who appears in the role of a village belle.

Vir (Salman Khan) is the pampered son of Thakur Pratap Singh (Sharat Saxena) and his wife (Nishigandha Wad). Together the trio makes for a happy-living family somewhere in rural Rajasthan.

Vir

is the apple of everyone’s eye. He is a callow youth who leads a carefree life. He loves to piggyback on his doting father while coming back from a morning jog. Or else he often jives about the village chaupal along with bubbly belle Muskaan (Diya Mirza), his fiancée.

However, Vir’s hunky dory life is turned topsy-turvy when he is being stalked by couple of gun-wielding goons who are out to take his life. Plus Vir is haunted by strange phantasmagoric visions, which many say were images from his past life.

When the shroud of mystery is lifted it turns out that Vir has been living a different life. He comes to Mumbai to find the missing links. Here he is known as Ali and has a lissome girlfriend Mehak (Sushmita Sen) and a companion Inder (Inder Kumar). He is also wanted by Police and chased about by commissioner (Mukesh Rishi).

Vir is confounded at these findings. Who is Ali? His twin or a mere lookalike? And what is the meaning behind his psychedelic visions? How will he get out of this situation? All these questions are answered with the film unspooling to its climax in the second half.

“TNBP” marks the return of director Pankaj Parashar after a five-year long hiatus. As a director who, in his heydays gave the fast flicks like “Jalwa” and “Chaalbaaz”. Pankaj maintains the technical standard throughout the film. The story too is a different one and Pankaj manages to get good performance from his actors.

Salman makes a fine transition from a village bumpkin in the first half to the shirt-doffing dude in the second half. Diya Mirza just about manages to give the required expressions playing the simple village girl. Sushmita on the other hand cuts a dash playing the confident and suave mod gal.

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