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'Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai' - Ordinary

By Nitika Desai
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

It is a yarn that has been spun in many different ways in the past. A love triangle about two guys in love with the same girl. It is a story in which turning points come just before crucial moments. Predictably unpredictable.

Vikram Bhatt and Bunty Soorma’s movie ‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’, like its title, is plain ordinary. The movie’s story, despite certain engaging twists, is something that has been seen many a time.

The

movie begins with a flashback, told by a girl who slit her wrists to commit suicide. The story travels back in time to a Rajasthani village. Durga (Amisha Patel) is a blind girl with an artistic talent for pottery. In an hour of need, a young man named Rohit (Arjun Rampal) helps her and subsequently falls in love with her.

Durga reciprocates Rohit’s feelings and the match is also approved by her mother (Suhasini Mulay).

Just when things seem to be going hunky dory, enters the villain – Rana (Parmeet Sethi). When Rana’s proposal is spurned by Durga, he tries to force himself upon her. But Durga’s mother comes to her rescue.

Rana comes to know of the love between Durga and Rohit. He decides to kill him. But accidentally, Durga’s mother is killed.

Rohit rescues Durga from a burning house and later takes her to a hospital for eye operation that will bring back her eyesight. The operation is successful. But before the crucial moment when Durga’s bandages are opened, the director puts in a twist. Rohit is killed in a scuffle with Rana.

Durga is shattered and slits her wrists.

Dr. R.K. Prasad (Kanwaljeet), Durga’s eye doctor and the patient listener of her story, takes the bereaving girl under his wing. He sees her as his own daughter.

Durga and the doc go to Switzerland, the perfect setting for the entry of the second hero.

Raj (Bobby Deol) is a businessman who is smitten with Durga at first sight. Like Durga, he too is bereaving the death of a very close friend.

Durga doesn’t reciprocate Raj’s feelings at first. Gradually, after a few good gestures by Raj and a little insistence from her new father figure, Durga mellows and agrees to an engagement with Raj.

With another crucial moment in the offing, the director throws in another twist.

The ‘deceased’ friend of Raj is alive and comes to meet him. It turns out that the friend is none other than Rohit. But can Durga recognize him?

‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’ has a very ordinary first half. The romance between the two main characters and the intervention by a villain hardly has any novelty.

Introduction of Bobby’s character at the halfway mark raises a few expectations. The second half does have a few engaging moments. But they soon begin to wither away after it becomes obvious that one of the two heroes would have to make a sacrifice.

Amisha Patel’s acting as the blind girl in the first half leaves much to be desired. There are times when her eyes can be caught focused on some object. For the most part throughout the film, her acting is limited to tragic and sad facial expressions.

Arjun Rampal is adequate as usual. His performance remains on an even par and never rises above this level, except perhaps toward the end.

Bobby Deol delivers a convincing enough performance. He credibly brings forth the inner emotional turmoil of his character as the story progresses towards its predictable conclusion.

In short, ‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’ offers nothing refreshing. It is like a walk among the same old hills you have seen many times before. At best, the movie manages to while away your time. Nothing more.

Hardly a timepass.

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