Movie : Yeh Dil

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Yeh Dil, to be fair to the maker, is a film that has certain good scenes. But before we jump to them, let's go on with the story. Somewhere in India, there is a college which has unmemorable kind of name. The said college is a place where thousands of students study but one Ravi (Tusshar Kapoor) has taken admission just to be in sports. He plays cricket, football, boxing, volleyball...but he never studies. His father Raghuraj Pratap Singh (Akhilendra Mishra) is the main donor for the college which was built by his grandpa. The same college has another student Vasundhara aka Vasu (Anita). She somehow despised sportsmen and that's probably the reason that few scenes in the beginning are being shown.

But then, love is always in the air when it is a college in general and it is of a Hindi film in particular. Vasu hails from a family which has two businesses, selling dairy products and extorting other's money. Her dad Mithva Yadav (Vineeth) and aunt are always-shouting and ever-fighting kind of humans. Ravi's father is a big shot businessman who is worth Rs. 200 crore in some scene and Rs. 700 crore in the other. He changes bed partners every night and believes that money is the supreme thing. Anyways, both fathers are against of the love of their children. So, first they fight, and then they show the muscle powers and then try all other means to stop the guy and girl from getting too involved with each other. But they not only continue to find out way of meeting but also manage to live like hubby-and-wiffy for some time before they get spotted again. And then, they play the last card to settle everything... Yeh Dil could have been a far better film than what it is turned out now. Like most Hindi films, this one also has lots of unwanted things in it. Let's speak of them later and get done with better side first. The director himself has written the film and he has, to an extent, managed to deliver some intriguing moments through combination of writing and direction. Though most of such scenes, with exception of Vasu jumping off from a train, are not novel, they are at least good enough to see. Then some lighter scenes that go well with the masses. Like a scene where a professor Kailash Chandra (Saurabh Shukla) passes Ravi's telephone number to Vasu is good. The villainous characters of the film are all mediocre but then, adding an aunt to create a deadly combo of male-female's bad team is interesting. While the film fails to leave an impact in totality, it is because of such small things that you manage to carry on with the film. Minuses are aplenty. First of all, it looks like a dubbed version instead of a fresh film. The looks, costumes, locations and narrative are too bad for a love story. Tejaa, according to some reports, has tried to give realistic touch to Vasu's character by not using fancy clothes and hair styles, but too much of plainness is as bad as too much of done-ups. The next big problem is with characterization. Anyone who understands little bit more of graph would say that this film lacks proper portrayal of characters. In one scene you see Ravi beating someone and in another, he is beaten up as badly as anyone. How bad. And while the love story keeps on moving up and down, the director seems to have got confused where to go next. That is why when the train sequence comes and all watchers are delighted, a song has added to kill all excitement. The film has influence of various past films on it. Be it Ek Duje Ke Liye, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Betaab and Dil, Yeh Dil has got something from all these films to be a safer and surer film. But that never works in creativity. You must conceive your own world before you actually deliver it to the world to see. Yeh Dil lacks systematic growth of story. It is not an offence to make a routine film with umpteenth time shown characters and scenes but it is certainly not good to get misfired halfway. While the overall musical score of Nadeem-Shravan is not that bad if you hear the numbers, they are treated badly on the screen and so you hardly enjoy them. The best of the lot is title song and that goes out with the titles. Technically too, the film is not up to the mark. Be it editing (Shankar) or cinematography (Ravi Verman) or choreography (Shankar) and action (Horseman Babu), Yeh Dil lacks newness, finesse and life. One has to remember that the film with same subject and screenplay have already done bumper business down South. But then, many Southern films have gone flop in Bollywood when they were made in Hindi. The most recent case was of Khushi which was a record-breaker in South but remained just an average fare in Hindi. Yeh Dil is saved to an extent by acting of the lead pair. Tusshar and Anita have done pretty well in this film. While Tusshar fits the bill of a guy in confusion Anita looks more confident and composed. But she needs to improve herself in emotional scenes. Akhilendra Mishra is wasted badly and even he would be feeling sorry for doing this role. Vineeth is good in his attempt.