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| (Mayank Shekhar) The narrator, who’s also the hero, suggests there are three kinds of kids in the world: “chamche”, who suck up to their parents; the rebellious sorts, who take them head-on; and the smart ones, who do what they like, and their parents never know. This stiff-neck, stone-faced, tight-assed lead character belongs to the mysterious fourth category: henpecked by mom (Ratna Pathak Shah), bull-dozed by pop (Boman Irani), this fellow grew up under-sexed...more |
| (Rajeev Masand) Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu', starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor, is a competently made romantic-comedy with a predictable story at its core. A straight-laced architect meets a free-spirited hairdresser in Vegas; they get drunk one night, and wake up the next morning to find out they're married. Even as they decide to annul the marriage, the couple realizes they have a connection. it's fairly typical stuff, and first-timer Shakun Batra adds all the usual ingredients...more |
| (Taran Adarsh) For those who swear by sentimental movies and are die-hard fans of rom-coms, who fervently wish Valentine's Day is prolonged eternally, EK MAIN AUR EKK TU is akin to an answer to this yearning. Rom-coms relaxing in the splendor of harmonious compositions, a creative and innovative take on present-day romance, pulsating images and timed during the Valentine week… aah, you can't ask for more! It's said that that good friendship, by and large, transforms into romance...more |
| (Pratim D. Gupta) The best thing about Shakun Batra’s first film Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is that it doesn’t want to slam dunk its way to box-office hysteria or thump the eardrums out of its victims, er viewers, or relentlessly cash in on its lead stars. And as it happens many a time, when a film doesn’t try to break new ground, it manages to do just that. As the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai theme tune returns with the Dharma Productions logo — they had changed it for Agneepath just a couple of weeks back...more |
| (Avijit Ghosh) Rahul Kapoor ( Imran Khan) is a 25-year-old boy. He brushes his teeth three times and irons his socks and underwear - everything that his parents want him to do. He is like a puppet living out their dreams and desires. So when he meets Riana Braganza ( Kareena Kapoor) who has dumped six Mr Rights and is everything he is not, sparks obviously fly. Trite, trite, right? Wrong. With only the faintest trace of the Hollywood hit, What Happens in Vegas (2008)...more |
| (Aakanksha Naval-Shetye) Bollywood thrives on love stories, so you think of a dozen ‘louve’ stories and romcoms that’ve been churned out over the years and wonder how different could this be. But surprisingly it is and refreshingly so. A ‘just-lost-his-job’ architect Rahul Kapoor (Imran) believes in living by the rulebook set by his champagne-clinking, right up on the social rung, but super-dominating parents (Ratna and Boman); while out-of-work hairstylist, Rianna Braganza’s book...more |
| (Aniruddha Guha) "You are perfectly average," she tells him. "And that's the best thing about you." He's happy. It's something he's been yearning for - a friendly pat on the back; reassurance. And he gets it from her. “I’m perfectly average,” he repeats with a smile on his face. “That actually makes me feel good.” Director Shakun Batra shows rare deftness for a first-time filmmaker in Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (EMAET). It is full of honest, warm moments that - to their credit...more |
| (Sukanya Verma) He's cream cheese. She's white chocolate. What a peculiarly milky combination, I thought at first. What I didn't realise is how these two pasty ingredients can combine to create a light, smooth-textured cheese cake. And that is exactly how Karan Johar's Valentine's Day treat Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (EMAET), directed by debutante Shakun Batra tastes. Rom-coms are an enduring albeit foreseeable genre, be it local, Hollywood or exotic...more |
| (Karan Anshuman) Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is an imaginative reversal of the traditional romcom format that effectively uses the setting of Las Vegas and its rickety instant marriage laws. Two contrasting personalities get hitched the first day they meet and spend the next two weeks of their lives discovering each other and, in the process, their own selves. Imran Khan plays Rahul Kapoor, a man socially straightjacketed by his rich and irrational parents' upbringing...more |
| (Shubha Shetty-Saha) Among the many smart lines in this film, one is when the girl tells the boy, 'Tum perfect average ho, na kuch zyada na kuch kam karte ho.' Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu can be summed up in that line too. Na kuch zyada na kuch kam ¦a near perfect rom-com. Breezy and delightful, this film gets your attention from start to finish, keeps you smiling most part of it and yes, it reminds you of a slice of your own life. Rahul (Imran Khan) has been struggling all his life...more |
| (Martin D'Souza) This clearly is an Imran Khan show. Sedate and subdued, he goes about bringing Rahul (his character) to life. Overburdened by the expectations from his parents (Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak-Shah) to excel in what they decide is best for him, Rahul loses his identity and lives to please them. He opens his mouth, but is never able to voice his opinion. He is an architect in a big firm in Las Vegas. Sin city obviously is going to lure you to do things...more |
| (Gaurav Malani) In a smart conversational excerpt from the film, the hero downplays himself as an ordinary guy who doesn't excel in any particular domain. But the heroine finds uniqueness in his commonplace conduct since he never overindulges into anything. She tags him with the paradox - 'perfectly average'. That precisely defines the film as well. It's perfect in whatever it offers. But what it offers is quite average in volume. Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a rom-com...more |
| (Piyali Dasgupta) I'll play on the film's USP for this review and keep it short and crisp. No extra lines. But, just like you need to read this, you need to go and watch the film. Shakun Batra's Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is a coming-of-age film. Not for Kareena and Imran's characters, though, but for the industry and the audience. It's okay to say b-u-m without the beep. And talk sex among friends, without a beep. Admit it. Rahul Kapoor (Imran Khan) lives to please his parents...more |
| (Trisha Gupta) Rahul Kapoor is the depressing sort of good boy who wears the ties his dad tells him to. Worse, he works at a job that his dad picked (an architecture firm in Las Vegas) and dates a girl his mom thinks is good for him (the daughter of one of her social acquaintances). For 25 years, he’s been plodding obediently along the track his parents have laid out for him: never quite aceing it, but never really falling sufficiently behind for them to notice...more |