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Starring: Ali Fazal,
Giselli Monterio, Zoa Morani, Satyajeet Dubey
Director:
Roshan Abbas
Always Kabhi Kabhi is a teen film, from Shahrukh
Khan’s banner which had a huge potential to be exciting
and entertaining high school rom-com, but doesn't live
up to expectations.
The story is about a gang of four teen aged friends
during the last year of their school life. It is about
parental pressure, the neglected kids, the
misunderstandings, school bunking and extra curricular
activities and the first stirrings of love and
heartbreak. This particular school allows its girls
students to wear teeny-weeny skirts and those dresses
which usually aren’t allowed or even seen in top grade
Mumbai schools or even colleges.
It is St. Marks School in Delhi, and being the last year
in school, it's a time for a group of friends to grow
up, move on, and experience first love.
Sam falls head over heels in love with Aishwarya and
tries to win her through the play they are rehearsing.
The film is about how in the last year of their
school they experience the true worth of friendship, love and learn to face
difficult situations that their young minds face. So they turn the play Romeo
and Juliet into their own version where they get an opportunity to air with
angry outburst about their problems.
The present day students are so calculative and possessive about their career
that they do not indulge in such sentimental stuff, which could have passed in
the 1980s and 90s. Always Kabhi Kabhi has nothing new to offer, except that it
launches the talented bunch of newcomers.
Credits & Crew:
Director - Roshan Abbas
Producer - Gauri Khan
Writer Roshan Abbas, Ranjit Raina
Screenplay - Ishita Moitra
Story - Ranjit Raina
Lyrics Roshan Abbas, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Prashant
Pandey, Irfan Siddique
Music - Aashish Rego, Shree D., Pritam Chakraborty
Distributed by Red Chillies Entertainment, Eros
Entertainment
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The school’s bad girl is Nandini (Zoa Morani) who feels
left out by her working parents, the lovely sweet-natured
Aishwarya Dhawan (Giselli Monteiro) is being forced into
modeling and stardom by her mother as she wants her
daughter to be an international ‘super’star. Tariq Naqvi (Satyajeet
Dubey) who is expected to excel at ‘everything’ and then
he is under pressure from his father to join MIT, well he
is hardworking and intelligent too, and then we have
Sameer Khanna (Ali Faisal) the cool guy who has a very
strict dad.
As the school prepares to take
part in the inter-school Shakespearewallah contest with a
production of 'Romeo and Juliet', these friends face a
series of incidents which changes their lives forever.
It is director Roshan Abbas
debut but he has failed in picking up the right script
leaving a lot to be desired. He has tried hard to depict
youthfulness and trendy feeling with social networking
sites, hacking, short forms etc. which is short cut names
and words thrown in, but the script drifts aimlessly.
Ali Fazal looks confident and puts up a good performance.
The beautiful Zoa Morani has a great potential. Giselle is
talented. But it is Satyajeet Dubey who is extremely cute
and very lovable in his part.
- PAW
Cast
Ali Fazal as Sameer "Sam" Khanna
Giselli Monteiro as Aishwarya Dhawan
Zoa Morani as Nandini
Satyajeet Dubey as Tariq Naqvi
Satish Shah
Lilette Dubey as Ms. Das
Vijay Raaz as Professor Agarwal a.k.a. Agro
Mukesh Tiwari
Manoj Joshi
Navneet Nishan as Mrs. Dhawan
Ashwin Mushran as Rahul Ghosh
Shahrukh Khan in Special Appearance in song "Antenna" |
