Cast: Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Johnny Lever
Director: S.J. Suryah
Producer: Boney Kapoor
Music Director: Anu Malik

In two different places, two children are born - Karan in Calcutta and Khushi in Chamoli. Both ambitious students, Karan wants to go to Canada for further education while Khushi wants to do her M.Sc. Both land up attending Mumbai University for higher studies. Karan’s friend Vicky is in love with Khushi’s friend Priya and vice-versa. However, Priya’s father proves to be a hurdle in this blossoming romance - a hurdle Karan and Khushi intend to help overcome. In the process, the two befriend each other and fall in love. But neither of them confesses their feelings, and thanks to their ‘ego-centric’ attitude are forever at loggerheads with each other, till Khushi notices Karan eying her waist and calls it a day. The two then part ways…

Analysis

Well, if you are the immature lover who happens to pick fights for every small thing that probably doesn’t even deserve your slightest attention, then you may identify with this never-ending saga filled to the brim with imprudence. And what’s more? The performances do nothing to enhance the film. Kareena Kapoor overacts and screams her vocal chords hoarse, not to miss out on the innumerable spurious facial expressions and her heavy duty strides that adds to the magnitude of petulance that’s incurred within the first few scenes of the film itself. And since Fardeen Khan seems to be trying hard and is improving,

Coming to the story idea of the film… well, there seemed to be no story to tell in the first place. One wonders, how can a girl who’s incessantly dressed in small tops that show off her bare belly curve and well-rounded navel, disown the boy she loves just because he happens to notice the same through her transparent black saree. Which again brings us to the question, why should a college girl who is very trendily clad, usually in tight pants and li’l chemises et al suddenly desire to wear a black saree while she’s prodding over her books in the garden?

The direction lacked saving grace with several glaring errors one of them being - in the scene when Fardeen and Amrish Puri (Khushi’s father in the film), are on their way to “St. Mary’s Girls’ Hostel” (they insist!), when they should’ve been saying “Queen Mary’s Girls’ Hostel.” The humorist of the film - Johnny Lever - is absolutely wasted and fails miserably at tickling our anything-but-bemused state-of-mind, though there are a couple of moments when the film manages to get out of us a few syllables of the laughter tenor. And at times, we are left confused at o whether to laugh out of sheer pity or cry in disapproval at the employment of a groggy sense of humour in the film.

Let this one pass…khushili. A ‘waste’ of time for sure.