Tum mile-Got you ;~)

Movie name: TUM MILE

Genre: Romance
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan, Mantra
Cinematographer: Prakash Kutty
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Producer: Vishesh Films
Writer: Kunal Deshmukh, Ankur Tewari
Banner: Sony Music, Vishesh Films
Music Director: Pritam
Playback Singer: Neeraj Shridhar, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Shadab , Mohit Chauhan, Irfan Ashraf,Javed Ali, Kay Kay
Lyricist: Kumaar , Sayeed Quadri 
Music Company: Sony Music

NOTE: Please don't read this if you haven't yet seen the movie and are planning to. But if you are like me and would rather want to know the story before hand ...go ahead. Well, you can read from the 'what's new to watch' till the end of 'Post Script'  at the end if you don't want to know the story :~)

I hate to be a critic and I don't know how and why I ended up writing such a critical review of the movie I did like the most. This movie is surely worth a watch and Don't miss it.

Synopsis:

Tum Mile is a romantic (?) movie that starts off with both the protagonists meeting in a flight to Mumbai coincidently. And then starts off the flash back with Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan) meeting Akshay (Emraan Hashmi)  for the first time (in Cape town of South Africa) 6 years ago.

Then the movie proceeds with long flashbacks and short present glimpses and we get to know that Sanjana is a (rich dad's only girl) caring, independent,writer who falls in love with Akshay an aspiring artist who hails from a not so rich family, who dreams of making it big one day as an artist (liked by & for the aam adami).

Sanjana is the calm & understanding girl who thinks for both and gives their relation a greater importance while Akshay is the introvert kind who is more of self obsessed with his aspirations. And as we get curious (a very little bit) to know as to why they had to break up, the much hyped Mumbai floods sequence starts. As the floods get them closer again, the flash back reveals on how they parted. What happens next is for you to watch :~P

Review:
The scenes depicting the flash back and the present are a way too interwined that it makes it complicated to make any sense of what you are watching (present/past? )initially.( or may be I must have been too dumb to follow the plot).
The floods part was disappointing. May be a bit more of drama was needed here to emphasize on how a natural calamity could bring (two) people together again. The concept of Mumbai floods seem to have been rather wasted. I still don't understand whom they were aiming to impress in the shot in which the duo gets stuck in a building during the floods and what you see only reminds you of a failed attempt of recreating a bit of Titanic magic.( Who wants a diluted wine in a new bottle?...Not  me.)
But the performance of Soha Ali Khan and Emraan almost nullify all the above said disappointments. Soha though looked too aged (may be the sideeffetcs of using too much of Olay), carried herself so naturally that is worth not to miss. Emraan did his best too and like Soha, suited well for his role. Mantra, as Akshay's friend did make the best use of his time on screen to claim his bit of appreciation.

The live in relationship concept has been neatly and delicately dealt but wonder if it is going to appeal everyone alike?( Yuck! Why am I saying this...aren't we living in the 21st century?

I shall give this movie 3.8 stars out of five-for the simple yet an entertraining story.

What's new to watch?
Less of Emraan's kissing scenes(wasn't he famous for that?) and more of Soha's low necked-sleeveless tops(sure she is gonna get more famous for this). But both look pretty good :~) and the chemistry between them did work well.
What's good to hear?
All the songs are equally good. (or better ask someone else...all music is noise and all noise is heaven to me.)
What's not to miss?
The scene in which Emran paints Soha's picture against a night background.( :~| yuck)
The end title and the home made (apparently) video showing what happens next.:~)

What is the moral of the story?(As I understood)

A man got to be more sensitive to a woman's need. Be it a wife or girlfriend, she wants to be with her man during his ups and downs and expects the same. Apart from cooking,buttoning his shirt, sharing his food and wine, scolding him for smoking, supporting his dreams and sleeping with him she also likes to be cared for. And she also expects to know her partners plan for their future. Its not right to blame her for asking more of his time and her share in the decison making .( A girl is writing this...what do you expect? lol)

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Post Script

----> I have seen a movie after 5 or 6 months and this is the 3rd or 4th movie(not counting any hollywood (in Hbo/star)movies) that I have seen this year.
---->This is the first movie review or synopsis I have ever written. And I am amazed I had the guts to even think of writing something like this (patting my back). Its not easy to follow your wild ideas. duh

-----> I had a hard time finding the name of the writer who wrote the story of Tum Mile. Why are writers never given the credit they desreve??

----->I haven't seen the first 30 minutes of the movie.I still wrote a review :~D

------>I was on time at the theater but Si* one of my friend took the wrong bus and came 15 miutes late and Pa* (the other) hired an unlucky auto whose driver was caught by a traffic police for going in the wrong direction (he took the wrong route cause my frnd was getting late..how sweet of the driver isn't it? ) and got late by 30 minutes.Last heard he was still locked up.

------>Pa* has been teaching me to be Patient since 4 years. She has never been on time for any damn thing...not even during our final (chemistry) exams,bday parties,movies or blah blah.

------>My dad went out of station and he called me up in the morning spoke  for a minute and a half before he hung up saying that 'he loved me & missed me'. He also did the same in the evening. It made me happy but I was worried cause he is not the one who would speak out his emotions.
Then I remebered what my dad said few days ago about an article he read that day. He was explaining my mom about how 3 words when used frequently and geniunely could bring about a happy-positive-effect. I brushed aside his opinion, asking if he meant "I hate you". But :~) today I have understood how goooood it feels to hear what you already know.

-----> If you are still reading this.....please do tell your loved ones- sometimes,how much you love them and need them. It does make wonders. Yes tell your mom & dad the next time you talk to them.

----->Dad & Mom you read this or not I love you and you are the best parents ever.

QUOTES:

a)“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

-Wiiliam Arhur Ward.

b)“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”

-Johny Gray.

***Pic Courtesy: Google