Though, unarguably, she sizzles on screen.įor all its flaws, Yaadein is not the disaster that it could have become.Ī few things still redeem the film: The Hrithik-Kareena chemistry. She hams her way through many of the scenes and seems quite self-conscious. Kareena, while brilliant in parts, still has a long way to go. He emotes beautifully, dances like a dream and is every woman's dream come true on screen. Whether it is pleading with Isha to acknowledge her love for him or the scene where he lashes out at his mother for neglecting his interests, Hrithik is the showstopper. Despite a poorly etched character, he carries off his part with conviction. Hrithik Roshan steals the thunder from under Jackie's feet. But this is definitely not the role of his lifetime. His role in Yaadein will be counted among his best. To his credit, he turns out a restrained and credible performance. Ghai has claimed that Jackie's role in Yaadein is his best ever. The rest of the story is about how Isha and Ronit work over this opposition. And the families that were till now friendly become enemies.
But Ronit's uncle (Amrish Puri) wants him to marry the daughter of a rich businessman who will help further his financial interests. Isha and Ronit start as friends but fall in love after Ronit rescues her from a crocodile-infested island. Ronit's uncle (Amrish Puri) is knee-deep into the stock market while Ronit is an entrepreneur running a host of dotcoms like, , and Ronit (Hrithik Roshan), Raj's neighbour in London, is his best friend. Isha, played by Kareena, is the most mature of Raj's daughters. The more dominant thread through the film is the love story between Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan. Ghai fails to bring across the pain of a father who is convinced that it's the absence of a mother in his daughters' lives that has led her to rebel. The father and daughter have an argument, at the end of which, the daughter threatens to call the police if her father slaps her. Take for instance the time when Raj's second daughter, Sanya, comes home one night after a drinking binge. It would have been a winner had it been handled more maturely and sensitively. Why, for example, has the mother-daughter bond not been explored? More important, why does it not show a man's discomfort at having to suddenly become his daughters' friend while struggling with the loss of his wife? And, might one say it, quite superficially. This angle has been touted as the backbone of film, but it's been treated quite shoddily. From being provider of the house, Raj has to singlehandedly bring up his three young daughters. Raj Singh Puri (Jackie Shroff), loses his wife Shalini (Rati Agnihotri), in an accident. Instead, it's a mishmash between a family drama and a tacky love story. Handled sensitively, it could have been an emotional masterpiece. It's supposed to be a story about a father who is suddenly faced with bringing up his three motherless daughters.
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Yaadein is a story of memories - some sad, some painful, some full of love, some of joy, some of longing, some of desire.īut like champagne gone flat, Yaadein tantalises in the beginning and loses its fizz.