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Starring:
Amita Pathak, Nakuul Mehta, Adhyayan Suman
Director - Anil Devgan
Haal-e-Dil
is the dream launch of producer Kumar Mangat’s daughter
Amita Pathak and her other two co-stars who also are
debutants – Nakuul Mehta and Shekhar Suman’s son
Adhyayan.
The film directed by Anil Devgan is the story of Sanjana
(Amita Pathak) who is in love with her rich classmate
Rohit (Adhyayan Suman). The three new faces provide
freshness to this visually rich movie filmed exquisitely
at stunning locales. Where else can one enjoy the rich
locales of Swiss Alps during the train journey to Shimla?
Sanjana and Rohit study in the same college and are in
love. She is on a train ride from Mumbai to Shimla.
Shekhar (Nakuul Mehta), who is also a co-passenger and a
flirt with a constantly roving eye, has a crush on
Sanjana. Sanjana keeps glued to her novel (remember
Kajol in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge?). It is love at
first sight for Shekhar and like Shahrukh Khan in DDLJ,
trying to woo her, strums and plucks his guitar in the
train journey to Shimla.
For Sanjana, love is chaste
and sacred and it is not just a small part of life but
the entire life itself. Shekar is the man who finds love
in every other pretty girl and falls for each of the
girl. Rohit travels through the lanes of love like a man
falling into a well which has no end to it.
The sacred
love of Sanjana becomes a curse when at one point - she
has to choose between her perfect love and a perfect
stranger.
The music is above average and songs are shot at some of
the exotic locales. The cinematography (Rajeev Ravi) is
just fantastic. Even the guest appearances of Ajay
Devgan, Kajol and Tanuja fail to cover up shoddy script
and screenplay..
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Sanjana misses the train at a
station and so Shekhar, too decides to miss the train as
well. Having to cover the remaining journey together, they
hire a cab and race to catch the train at the next station
(like Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur in Jab We Met). But
here, through jungle and wilderness, they even have an
encounter with a dacoit of Veerappan fame.
Back to city life, Shekhar expresses his love and even
goes on a hunger strike opposite Sanjana’s house to prove
his love. Expectedly, we now have the melodrama in what
about Rohit, the rich, dreamy-eyed guy who is Sanjana’s
original love?
Amita Pathak is pretty in a
girl-next-door kind of way with lovely eyes. Thankfully,
she’s restrained and plays a fashion designer. Adhyayan
Suman takes the cake in this loosely handled love story.
In his debut film, his performance is appreciated because
of his originality. As a cute chocolate-boy hero, Nakuul
could be the new heart throb of college girls though he
incorporates too much ‘herogiri’ in his mannerisms.
- Shaami M. Irfan
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Cast:
Amita Pathak
Nakuul Mehta
Adhyayan Suman
Nassar Abdulla
Bharati Achrekar
Himani Shivpuri
Mukesh Tiwari
Ajay Devgan - Special appearance
Kajol - Special appearance
Tanuja - Special appearance |
Credits and Crew:
Banner: Big Screen Entertainer
Producer - Kumar Mangat
Director - Anil Devgan
Cinematography - Rajeev Ravi
Music - Vishal Bharadwaj, Anand Raj Anand, Pritam Chakraborty,
Raghav Sachar
Written by Dheeraj Rattan
Film Editing by Dharmendra Sharma
Choreographer - Ravi Botalje |
