Zor se Bol

Synopsis
Naren (Ajay Devgn), Abhay (Emraan Hashmi) and Milind (Omi Vaidya) need to add some spark to their love life. They may be roomies but the three of them have diametrically opposed love stories. Naren’s lost his heart to his twenty-something secretarial intern (Shazahn) despite being a divorcee on the wrong side of forty.

Abhay is happy to play toy boy to rich and bored housewife, Tisca Chopra until he meets her free-spirited daughter, Shruti Haasan, while Milind Kelkar is willing to do anything for wannabe actor, Shraddha Das, even if it means spending his life’s savings for a shrewd climber. Will the three guys live happily ever after?

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Track 1: Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
Singers: Mohit Chauhan

Track 2: Tere Bin
Singers: Sonu Nigam

Track 3: Yeh Dil Hai Nakhrewala
Singers: Shefali Alvaris

Track 4: Jadugari
Singers: Kunal Ganjanwala

Track 5: Beshuba
Singers: Kunal Ganjanwala, Antara Mitra

Track 6: Tere Bin (Reprise)
Singers: Naresh Iyer

Track 7: Yeh Dil Hai Nakhrewala (Film Version)
Singers: Antara Mitra

Track 8: Tere Bin (Remix)
Singers: Sonu Nigam

Review
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee, Shruti Haasan, Tisca Chopra, Shraddha Das

Direction: Madhur Bhandarkar

Genre: Romantic comedy

Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes

Rating: 4.5/5

Madhur Bhandarkar tries to change tracks. He attempts a switch-over from serious, hard-hitting cinema that chooses to expose the underbelly of society to a light-hearted look at the affairs of the heart. Does he succeed? Well, partially so. For Dil To Baccha Hai Ji may have its heart in the right place but the tone is a bit tenuous and the comedy only intermittently breezy.

Each of the three love tracks have their pros and cons. The highpoint of Ajay Devgn’s romance is Ajay Devgn of course. The actor does look visibly uncomfortable with all that talk of virginity and when-did-you-lose-it business and actually brings out the guffaws when he breaks into a ’70s ballad at a yuppie party. Emraan’s dil dosti story stands out for its gleeful dirty rotten scoundrel act and for the sheer dignity that Tisca Chopra adds to the predator woman cameo. With Omi Vaidya, you know what’s there to smile about: the guy’s boyish innocence and his never-say-die zeal which, as in 3 Idiots, is totally misplaced again. The girls too comfortably slip into their respective shoes, playing heartbreakers to the hilt. While Shazahn is bubbly and sweet, Shruti is cold and calculating, Shraddha is outrageously exploitative and Tisca is mature and moody.

So where’s the glitch? First, the love tangle gets repetitive; the length is a bit too long; the humour missing in many places and the Madhur make-over as a comedy maestro somewhat half-hearted. Nevertheless, there’s enough mood and attitude in the film to make for a pleasant viewing. And there’s Mohit Chauhan too. Check out his melodious ditty, Abhi kuch dino se, which forms the leitmotif of the film. Very hummable.